I know that speech recognition is a bit off-topic here, but I don't know
of a more proper place to ask this. A reviewer wrote to a paper of
mine that "the fact that better phone recognition does not necessarily
mean better word recognition is already known, and people have been
talking about it very frequently. This should be made clear and perperly
referenced in the paper". Unfortunately, I'm personally sure that I've
never seen this written down, because it would have saved me a lot of
work -- but, unfortunately, I had to learned it from my own failures,
so I'm sure I won't be able to recall any references for this. I'm also
unable to figure out how to turn this thing into a reasonable Google
search term (actually, I've just managed to find a reference for just the
opposite - that "better phone recognition undoubtedly leads to better word
recognition"). So, if anyone can tell me any paper stating or showing
results that "better phone recognition does not necessarily mean better
word recognition", I would be very grateful.
Thanks,
Laszlo Toth
Hungarian Academy of Sciences *
Research Group on Artificial Intelligence * "Failure only begins
e-mail: tothl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * when you stop trying"
http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl *
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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:16:41 -0400
From: Christine Rankovic <rankovic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: reference needed (ASR)
The statement of the reviewer--that better phone recognition does not mean
better word recognition--is wrong. It is possible that the reviewer could
support this statement with data from poorly conducted speech recognition
tests like, for example, those conducted with an inadequate number of speech
items, or when mean scores comprise scores of too few listeners.