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CONTIGUOUS WORD RECOGNITION [1 record]

Record 1 1998-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

An approach to speech recognition that recognizes words spoken in normal context.

CONT

Connected speech recognition systems must be able to handle not only characteristics of sound and variations in pronunciation (as the word recognition systems do for discrete words), but also the grammatical structure of the language.

OBS

Contrast with continuous speech recognition.

Key term(s)
  • connected-words recognition
  • connected-speech recognition

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Reconnaissance de mots dans des phrases séparées par des pauses. (ISO/IEC, JTC1/SC1, N1609, 1994).

Spanish

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