SPICE: web-based tools for rapid language adaptation in speech processing systems

Abstract

In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a user interface for SPICE, a web-based toolkit for rapid prototyping of speech and language processing components.We report on the challenges and experiences gathered from testing these tools in an advanced graduate hands-on course, in which we created speech recognition, speech synthesis, and smalldomain translation components for 10 different languages within only 6 weeks.