ITRW on Adaptation Methods for Speech Recognition August 29-30, 2001 Sophia Antipolis, France

A Phonetic Lexicon for Adaptation in ASR for Austrian German

Micha Baum (1), Rudolf Muhr (2), and Gernot Kubin (3)

(1) ftw (Vienna Telecommunications Research Center), Austria
(2) University of Graz, Austria
(3) University of Technology, Graz, Austria

We present a phonetic lexicon for Austrian German, which was generated automatically from the canonic version of a German pronunciation dictionary. The lexicon is based on narrow transcription in Sam-Pa. Both the speech files and the canonic dictionary are taken from the SpeechDat-AT database. Since the recorded items are mainly read speech the differences between the canonic form and the real pronunciations do not reflect local dialects but are rather influenced from a regional or national standard. There are differences partly due to the extension of the phoneme set, partly due to coexistence of multiple variants.

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Bibliographic reference.  Baum, Micha / Muhr, Rudolf / Kubin, Gernot (2001): "A Phonetic lexicon for adaptation in ASR for Austrian German", In Adaptation-2001, 135-138.