Multi-lingual Interoperability in Speech Technology (MIST) September 13-14, 1999 Leusden, The Netherlands

Automatic Language Identification

Marc A. Zissman, Kay M. Berkling

Information Systems Technology Group, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA, USA

Automatic language identification is the process by which the language of a digitized speech utterance is recognized by a computer. In this paper, we will describe the set of available cues for language identifi- cation and discuss the different approaches to building working systems. This overview includes a range of historic approaches, contemporary systems that have been evaluated on standard databases, as well as promising future approaches. Comparative results are also reported.

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Bibliographic reference.  Zissman, Marc A. / Berkling, Kay M. (1999): "Automatic Language Identification", Invited Tutorial Lecture, In MIST-1999.