SPoSS - Sound Patterns of Spontaneous Speech La Baume-les-Aix, France September 24-26, 1998

The Use of ALISP for Automatic Acoustic-Phonetic Transcription

Jan Cernocky (1), Genevieve Baudoin (2), Gerard Chollet (3)

(1) Institute of Radioelectronics, FEI VUT Brno. Czech Republic
(2) Departement Signal et Telecommunications, ESIEE Paris, France
(3) Departement Signal et Images, ENST Paris, France

Many current systems for automatic speech processing rely on sub-word units defined using phonetic knowledge. Our paper presents an alternative to this approach - determination of speech units using ALISP (Automatic Language Independent Speech Processing) techniques. Such units were experimentally tested in a very low bit rate phonetic vocoder, where a mean bit rate of 120 bps for unit encoding was achieved. First results of comparison of an ALISP segmentation with a phonetic alignment are presented.

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Bibliographic reference.  Cernocky, Jan / Baudoin, Genevieve / Chollet, Gerard (1998): "The use of ALISP for automatic acoustic-phonetic transcription", In SPoSS-1998, 149-152.