The first experimental results in "large" vocabulary speech recognition were obtained in 1976 [ Bahl 78 ]. They involved continuous speech reading of. the so called Laser Patent Text. The test set was limited to sentences that were entirely composed of words belonging to a vocabulary of the 1000 most frequent words found in the training text.
Cite as: Jelinek, F. (1991) Up from trigrams! - the struggle for improved language models. Proc. 2nd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1991), 1037-1040, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1991-248
@inproceedings{jelinek91_eurospeech,
author={Frederick Jelinek},
title={{Up from trigrams! - the struggle for improved language models}},
year=1991,
booktitle={Proc. 2nd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1991)},
pages={1037--1040},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1991-248}
}