Multilingual acoustic models for speech recognition and synthesis

Author

Kunzmann, S. ; Fischer, V. ; Gonzalez, J. ; Emam, O. ; Günther, C. ; Janke, E.

Author_Institution

Eur. Voice Technol. Dev., IBM Pervasive Comput., Mannheim, Germany

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

17-21 May 2004

Abstract

In this paper, we review the design of a common phone alphabet for up to fifteen languages and describe its application in two important components of a seamless multilingual conversational system, namely speech recognition and synthesis. We report on experiments that demonstrate the advantages of multilingual acoustic models both for the recognition of foreign names and non-native speech, and describe the usefulness of a common phone alphabet for the construction of unit selection based mono- and bilingual speech synthesis systems.

Keywords

computational linguistics; speech recognition; speech synthesis; bilingual speech synthesis; common phonetic alphabet; conversational system; foreign name recognition; multilingual acoustic models; multilingual speech recognition; multilingual speech synthesis; nonnative speech; unit selection based monolingual speech synthesis; Acoustic applications; Internet; Loudspeakers; Mobile handsets; Natural languages; Pervasive computing; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Training data;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004. Proceedings. (ICASSP '04). IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8484-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2004.1326652

Filename

1326652