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Experiments Towards a Multi-Language LVCSR Interface

Tanja Schultz and Alex Waibel
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI '99), 1999

Abstract

This paper describes experiments towards a multilanguage human-computer speech interface. Our interface is designed for large vocabulary continuous speech input. For this purpose a multilingual dictation database has been collected under GlobalPhone, which is a project at the Interactive Systems Labs. This project investigates LVCSR systems in 15 languages of the world, namely Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, and Turkish. Based on a global phoneme set we build di erent multilingual speech recognizer and present several performance results in language independent and language adaptive setups.

BibTeX

@conference{Schultz-1999-16691,
author = {Tanja Schultz and Alex Waibel},
title = {Experiments Towards a Multi-Language LVCSR Interface},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI '99)},
year = {1999},
month = {January},
}