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Psutka, J. and Iljuchin, I. and Ircing, P. and Psutka Josef V. and Trejbal, V. and Byrne, W. and Hajič, J. and Gustman, S. : Building LVCSR system for transcription of spontaneously pronounced russian testimonies in the MALACH project: initial steps and first results . Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2807, p. 327-332, Springer, Berlin, 2003.

Abstract

The MALACH project uses the world's largest digital archives of video oral histories collected by the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (VHF) and attempts to access such archives by advancing the state-of-the-art in Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) and Information Retrieval (IR). This paper discusses the initial steps and the first results in building large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) system for transcription of Russian witnesses. Russian as the third language processed in the MALACH project (after English and Czech) brought new problems especially in the phonetic area. Although the most of the Russian testimonies were provided by native Russian survivors we have encountered many different accents in their speech caused by a territory where the survivors are living.

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Title: Building LVCSR system for transcription of spontaneously pronounced russian testimonies in the MALACH project: initial steps and first results
Author: Psutka, J. ; Iljuchin, I. ; Ircing, P. ; Psutka Josef V. ; Trejbal, V. ; Byrne, W. ; Hajič, J. ; Gustman, S.
Language: English
Date of publication: 8 Sep 2003
Year: 2003
Type of publication: Papers in journals
Title of journal or book: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Series: 2807
Page: 327 - 332
ISBN: 0302-9743
Publisher: Springer
Address: Berlin
Date: 8 Sep 2003 - 12 Sep 2003
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Keywords

automatic speech recognition, Russian, MALACH project, holocaust

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{PsutkaJ_2003_BuildingLVCSRsystem,
 author = {Psutka, J. and Iljuchin, I. and Ircing, P. and Psutka Josef V. and Trejbal, V. and Byrne, W. and Haji\v{c}, J. and Gustman, S.},
 title = {Building LVCSR system for transcription of spontaneously pronounced russian testimonies in the MALACH project: initial steps and first results},
 year = {2003},
 publisher = {Springer},
 journal = {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence},
 address = {Berlin},
 pages = {327-332},
 series = {2807},
 ISBN = {0302-9743},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/PsutkaJ_2003_BuildingLVCSRsystem},
}