Rapid bootstrapping of a ukrainian large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system

ABSTRACT We report on our efforts toward an LVCSR system for the Slavic language Ukrainian. We describe the Ukrainian text and speech database recently collected as a part of our GlobalPhone corpus [1] with our Rapid Language Adaptation Toolki

Rapid Generation of Pronunciation Dictionaries for new Domains and Languages

This dissertation presents innovative strategies and methods for the rapid generation of pronunciation dictionaries for new domains and languages. Depending on various conditions, solutions are proposed and developed. Starting from the straightforward scenario in which the target language is present in written form on the Internet and the mapping between speech and written language is close up to the difficult scenario in which no written form for the target language exists