Development of Multilingual Acoustic Models in the GlobalPhone Project

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  • Tanja Schultz
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This paper describes our recent eeort in developing the Glob-alPhone recognizer for multilingual large vocabulary continuous speech. Turkish. Based on ve languages we developed a global phoneme set and built multilingual speech recognizer by variing the method of acoustic model combination. Context dependent phoneme models are created using questions about languages and language groups. Results of a multilingual system which can handle ve languages are presented.

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تاریخ انتشار 1998