Adaptation in the pronunciation space for non-native speech recognition

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2901-2904

  Steidl, Stefan ^a   Stemmer, Georg ^b   Hacker, Christian ^a   Nöth, Elmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; DATA DRIVEN; NON-NATIVE; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; OFF-LINE ADAPTATION; ON-LINE ADAPTATION; SPEECH SOUNDS; TARGET LANGUAGE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009080645     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. J. Glass and T. Hazen, "Telephone-Based Conversational Speech Recognition in the Jupiter Domain," in Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), 1998.
2. G. Stemmer, "Modeling Variability in Speech Recognition," Ph.D. dissertation, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Mustererkennung, Germany, 2004.
3. C. Teixeira, I. Trancoso, and A. Serralheiro, "Recognition of Non-Native Accents," in Proc. European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech), vol. 5, 1997, pp. 2375-2378.
4. D. Van Compernolle, "Speech Recognition by Goats, Wolves, Sheep and ⋯ Non-Natives," in Proc. ESCA-NATO Workshop on Multi-lingual Interoperability in Speech Technology, 1999, pp. 3-9.
5. H. Strik and C. Cucchiarini, "Modeling Pronunciation Variation for ASR: A Survey of the Literature," Speech Communication, vol. 29, pp. 225-246, 1999.
6. G. Zavagliakos, R. Schwartz, and J. McDonough, "Maximum A Posteriori Adaptation for Large Scale HMM Recognizers," in Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 1996, pp. 725-728.
7. L. Mayfield Tomokiyo, "Recognizing Non-Native Speech: Characterizing and Adapting to Non-Native Usage in LVCSR," Ph.D. dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001.
8. K. Livescu and J. Glass, "Lexical Modelling of Non-Native Speech for Automatic Speech Recognition," in Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2000.
9. S. Steidl, G. Stemmer, C. Hacker, E. Nöth, and H. Niemann, "Improving Children's Speech Recognition by HMM Interpolation with an Adults' Speech Recognizer," in Pattern Recognition, Proc. of the 25th DAGM Symposium. Berlin: Springer, 2003, pp. 600-607.
10. J. Bellegarda, "An Overview of Statistical Language Model Adaptation," in Proc. Workshop Adaptation Methods for Speech Recognition, 2001, pp. 165-174.
11. I. Maddieson, Patterns of Sounds. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
12. G. Stemmer, E. Nöth, and H. Niemann, "The Utility of Semantic-Pragmatic Information and Dialogue-State for Speech Recognition in Spoken Dialogue Systems," in Proc. of the Third Workshop on Text, Speech, Dialogue - TSD 2000. Berlin: Springer, 2000, pp. 439-444.