How Foreign are 'Foreign' Speech Sounds? Implications for Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis
Abstract
This paper reports results from a production study which shows in what ways the traditional Swedish phone set is expanded with phones similar to or approximating phones from other languages than Swedish in everyday speech. The inclusion of such sounds - here called xenophones - has implications for both automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis systems, especially in polylingual environments, which are discussed in the paper.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADP010380