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English-Spanish Language Transfer for Automatic Speech Recognition

Jones, Jonathan

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Title
English-Spanish Language Transfer for Automatic Speech Recognition
Author(s)
Jones, Jonathan
Contributor(s)
Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark
Issue Date
2014-05
Keyword(s)
  • transfer learning
  • Spanish automatic speech recognition
  • Gaussian mixture models
  • segment models
  • model adaptation
Abstract
Although current methods for automatically labeling a speech corpus have significantly reduced the amount of time and effort required by this once- tedious task, they still depend greatly on the existence of a labeled reference corpus. This thesis proposes a method for automatically labeling a speech corpus using data from a reference corpus in a different, but phonetically similar language. This method is tested experimentally by identifying phonemes in Mexican Spanish using training data from American English.
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text
Language
en
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