1997 · 21 citations · 0 references
Language StudiesLinguisticsSpanishLanguage AcquisitionNatural Language ProcessingPhoneticsLanguage ModelingMultilingual Natural Language ProcessingMultimodal CorporaSpeech RecognitionSpeech Recognition TestingSpoken CorporaMultilingual Speech RecognitionSpeaker-independent Speech RecognitionSpeech Data Annotation
. This paper describes our recent effort in developing the GlobalPhone database for multilingual large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. In particular we present the current status of the GlobalPhone corpus containing high quality speech data for the 9 languages Arabic, Chinese, Croatic, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. We also discuss the JANUS-3 toolkit and how it can be applied on our way towards multilinguality using the GlobalPhone database. 1 Introduction The increasing interest in large vocabulary multilingual speech recognition and understanding systems over the last years is accompanied by the development of multilingual databases like the OGI corpus and the CALL HOME task. These databases are collected over telephone lines, which makes the speaker acquisition simple and fast. For training and testing large vocabulary speaker-independent speech recognition systems a large amount of transcribed speech data is necessary. To achieve robust a...