Rapid Language Portability for Speech Processing Systems

Опубликовано 6 сентября 2016, 17:52

With the growing demand for speech processing systems in many different languages, there is still a significant bottleneck in building recognition and synthesis support for new languages. The SPICE project is aimed at providing web-based easy-to-use tools for the non-expert to build acoustic and language models for speech recognition and synthesis systems in new languages. This work has required new research in better selection of prompting data, lexicon construction and multilingual acoustic modeling. Where possible synthesis and recognition models are shared. This talk gives an overview of the system, and highlights the specific research issues that have been addressed and what still needs to be done. The system has already been used successfully for some 25 languages. (joint work with Tanja Schultz)