Title :
Speech Recognition with Limited Resources for Children and Adult Speakers
Author :
Moya, Edith ; Hernandez, Manuel ; Pineda, Luis ; Meza, Ivan
Author_Institution :
Inst. de Comput., Univ. Tecnol. de la Mixteca (UTM), Huajuapan de Leon, Mexico
fDate :
Nov. 26 2011-Dec. 4 2011
Abstract :
Children are natural users of speech technology. However, children speech has been proved to be harder than adults. This implies that in order to build a children speech recogniser that is comparable with an adult recogniser it would be necessary a larger amount of recordings. In this paper, we present our experiments building such recognisers but with a limited amount of resources, this is a corpus with few speakers and recordings. We explore the effects of combining both resources in different ways. We also show the performance of the recognisers in a real life scenario with spontaneous speech.
Keywords :
speaker recognition; adult speakers; children speakers; limited resources; speech recognition; speech technology; Acoustics; Buildings; Pediatrics; Speech; Speech recognition; Testing; Training; automatic speech recognition; children speech; spontaneous speech;
Conference_Titel :
Artificial Intelligence (MICAI), 2011 10th Mexican International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Puebla
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2173-1
DOI :
10.1109/MICAI.2011.30