Title :
The development of ASR for Slavic languages in the MALACH project
Author :
Psutka, Josef ; Haj, Jan ; Byrne, William
Author_Institution :
Dept. Cybern. & Center for Comput. Linguistics, Univ. of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Abstract :
The development of acoustic training material for Slavic languages within the MALACH project is described. Initial experience with the variety of speakers and the difficulties encountered in transcribing Czech, Slovak, and Russian language oral history are described along with automatic speech recognition results intended to investigate the effectiveness of different transcription conventions that address language specific phenomena within the task domain.
Keywords :
history; linguistics; natural languages; speech processing; speech recognition; ASR; Czech language; MALACH project; Russian language; Slavic languages; Slovak language; acoustic training material; automatic speech recognition; language specific phenomena; language transcription; multilingual access to large spoken archives; spontaneous oral history; Acoustic noise; Automatic speech recognition; Background noise; Computational linguistics; Cybernetics; History; Mouth; Natural languages; Testing; White spaces;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004. Proceedings. (ICASSP '04). IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8484-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2004.1326653
