CONF Garner_IS_2014/IDIAP Automatic Speech Recognition and Translation of a Swiss German Dialect: Walliserdeutsch Garner, Philip N. Imseng, David Meyer, Thomas EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/papers/2014/Garner_IS_2014.pdf PUBLIC Proceedings of Interspeech 2014 Singapore Walliserdeutsch is a Swiss German dialect spoken in the south west of Switzerland. To investigate the potential of automatic speech processing of Walliserdeutsch, a small database was collected based mainly on broadcast news from a local radio station. Experiments suggest that automatic speech recognition is feasible: use of another (Swiss German) database shows that the small data size lends itself to bootstrapping from other data; use of Kullback-Leibler HMM suggests that phoneme mapping techniques can compensate for a grapheme-based dictionary. Experiments also indicate that statistical machine translation is feasible; the difficulty of small data size is offset by the close proximity to (high) German.