Towards Multilingual Interoperability in Automatic Speech Recognition
Abstract
In this communication, we address multilingual interoperability aspects in speech recognition. After giving a tentative definition of multilingual interoperability, we discuss speech recognition components and their language-specific aspects. We give a sample overview of past multilingual speech recognition research and development across different speaking styles (read, prepared and conversational). The problem of adaptation to new languages is addressed. Language-independent and cross- language techniques for acoustic modeling provide a means to port recognition systems to new languages without language specific acoustic data. Pronunciation lexical and text material appear to be the most crucial language-dependent resources for porting. Fast porting being a step towards multilingual interoperability the ongoing efforts of producing multilingual pronun ciation lexical and collecting multilingual text corpora should be extended to the largest possible number of written languages.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADP010388
Entities
People
- Martine Adda-decker