VEPRAD: a Croatian speech database of weather forecasts

We present some results of the project in Croatian speech data collection and speech recognition of Croatian weather forecasts. We describe the procedures we have performed in order to obtain a domain specific speech database from broadcast news of national programmes. The speech signal acquisition, transcription and segmentation process is described. We present the database structure and give some database statistics. Preliminary results of Croatian speech recognition experiments using context-independent and context-dependent acoustic models are presented.