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Psutka, J. and Ircing, P. and Psutka Josef V. and Radová, V. and Byrne, W. and Venkataramani, V. and Hajič, J. and Gustman, S. : Towards automatic transcription of spontaneous Czech speech in the MALACH project . Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2807, p. 214-219, Springer, Berlin , 2003.

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Abstract

Our paper discusses the progress achieved during one-year effort with building the Czech LVCSR system for an automatic transcription of spontaneously pronounced testimonies in the MALACH project. The difficulty of this task stems from the highly inflectional nature of the Czech language and is further multiplied by the presence of many colloquial words in spontaneous Czech speech and also by the need to handle emotional speech filled with disfluencies, heavy accents, age-related coarticulation and language switching. In this paper we concetrate mainly on the acoustic issues - the proper choice of the front-end parameterization, handling the non-speech events in acoustic modeling and especially the unsupervised usage of the MLLR adaptation technique. A method for selecting suitable language model data is also briefly mentioned.

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Title: Towards automatic transcription of spontaneous Czech speech in the MALACH project
Author: Psutka, J. ; Ircing, P. ; Psutka Josef V. ; Radová, V. ; Byrne, W. ; Venkataramani, V. ; 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: 214 - 219
ISBN: 0302-9743
Publisher: Springer
Address: Berlin
Date: 8 Sep 2003 - 12 Sep 2003
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Keywords

automatic speech recognition, Czech, MALACH project, holocaust

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{PsutkaJ_2003_Towardsautomatic,
 author = {Psutka, J. and Ircing, P. and Psutka Josef V. and Radov\'{a}, V. and Byrne, W. and Venkataramani, V. and Haji\v{c}, J. and Gustman, S.},
 title = {Towards automatic transcription of spontaneous Czech speech in the MALACH project},
 year = {2003},
 publisher = {Springer},
 journal = {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence},
 address = {Berlin },
 pages = {214-219},
 series = {2807},
 ISBN = {0302-9743},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/PsutkaJ_2003_Towardsautomatic},
}