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Boosting under-resourced speech recognizers by exploiting out of language data - Case study on Afrikaans
Type of publication: Idiap-RR
Citation: Imseng_Idiap-RR-15-2012
Number: Idiap-RR-15-2012
Year: 2012
Month: 6
Institution: Idiap
Abstract: Under-resourced speech recognizers may benefit from data in languages other than the target language. In this paper, we boost the performance of an Afrikaans speech recognizer by using already available data from other languages. To successfully exploit available multilingual resources, we use posterior features, estimated by multilayer perceptrons that are trained on similar languages. For two different acoustic modeling techniques, Tandem and Kullback-Leibler divergence based HMMs, the proposed multilingual system yields more than 10% relative improvement compared to the corresponding monolingual systems only trained on Afrikaans.
Crossref: Imseng_SLTU_2012:
Boosting under-resourced speech recognizers by exploiting out of language data - Case study on Afrikaans, Imseng, David, Bourlard, Hervé and Garner, Philip N., in: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced Languages, Cape Town, pages 60--67, 2012
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Projects Idiap
SNSF-MULTI
IM2
Authors Imseng, David
Bourlard, Hervé
Garner, Philip N.
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