European Conference on Speech Technology Edinburgh, Scotland, UK September 1987

Speech Recognition Based on a Text-to-Speech Synthesis System

Mats Blomberg, Rolf Carlson, Kjell Elenius, Björn Granström, Sheri Hunnicutt

Department of Speech Communication and Music Acoustics Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

A major problem in large-vocabulary speech recognition is the collection of reference data and speaker normalization. In this paper we propose the use of synthetic speech as a means of handling this problem. An experimental scheme for such a system will be described.

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Bibliographic reference.  Blomberg, Mats / Carlson, Rolf / Elenius, Kjell / Granström, Björn / Hunnicutt, Sheri (1987): "Speech recognition based on a text-to-speech synthesis system", In ECST-1987, 2369-2372.