The cost 249 speechdat multilingual reference recogniser

Abstract

The COST 249 SpeechDat reference recogniser is a fully automatic, language-independent training procedure for building a phonetic recogniser. It relies on the HTK toolkit and a SpeechDat(II) compatible database. The recogniser is designed to serve as a reference system in multilingual recognition research. This paper documents version 0.95 of the reference recogniser and presents results on small and medium vocabulary recognition for five languages. The paper is a sligthly expanded version of a paper presented at LREC-2000 (Johansen et al., 2000). 1.