David Rybach, Stefan Hahn, C. Gollan, R. Schlüter, H. Ney
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引用次数: 30
Abstract
This paper describes the RWTH speech recognition system for Arabic. Several design aspects of the system, including cross-adaptation, multiple system design and combination, are analyzed. We summarize the semi-automatic lexicon generation for Arabic using a statistical approach to grapheme-to-phoneme conversion and pronunciation statistics. Furthermore, a novel ASR-based audio segmentation algorithm is presented. Finally, we discuss practical approaches for parallelized acoustic training and memory efficient lattice rescoring. Systematic results are reported on recent GALE evaluation corpora.