ASR-based exercises for listening comprehension practice in European Portuguese
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ASR-based exercises for listening comprehension practice in European Portuguese Thomas Pellegrini a,∗, Rui Correia a,b,c, Isabel Trancoso a,b, Jorge Baptista a,d, Nuno Mamede a,b, Maxine Eskenazi c a Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Lisbon, Portugal b Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal c Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA d Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Computer Speech & Language
دوره 27 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013