Slovak Vegetation Database

Adapting Slovak ASR for native Germans speaking Slovak

We explore variability involved in speech with a non-native accent. We first employ a combination of knowledge-based and datadriven approaches for the analysis of pronunciation variants between L1 (German) and target L2 (Slovak). Knowledge gained in this two-step process is then used in adapting acoustic models and the lexicon. We focus on modifications in the pronunciation dictionary and speec...

Development of a Real-time Asr System for Slovak Speechdat Database

This paper describes development of a real-time speech recognition system in Slovak for the voice-operated telephone services. The system is based on SPHINX2 platform. The decoder using Hidden Markov Models was trained on the SpeechDat-E Slovak database. It is speaker independent, large vocabulary, continuous speech real-time automatic speech recognition system. Test results are given for the t...

Slovak Speech Database for Experiments and Application Building in Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis

After the years of hesitation the conservative Slovak telecommunication market seems to become conscious of the need of voice driven services. In the last year, all the three telecommunication operators have adopted our text to speech system Kempelen in their interactive voice response systems. The diphone concatenative synthesis has probably reached the frontier of its abilities and so the nex...

Slovak Academy of Sciences

Slovak Morphosyntactic Tagset

Morphological annotation constitutes essential, very useful and very common linguistic information presented in corpora, especially for highly inflectional languages. The morphological tagset used in the Slovak National Corpus has been designed with several goals in mind – the tags are compact and easily human-readable, without sacrificing their informational contents. The tags consist of ASCII...