EUROSPEECH 2003 - INTERSPEECH 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Geneva, Switzerland September 1-4, 2003

An Approach to Multilingual Acoustic Modeling for Portable Devices

Yan Ming Cheng, Chen Liu, Yuan-Jun Wei, Lynette Melnar, Changxue Ma

Motorola Labs, USA

There is an increasing need to deploy speech recognition systems supporting multiple languages/dialects on portable devices worldwide. A common approach uses a collection of individual monolingual speech recognition systems as a solution. However, such an approach is not practical for handheld devices such as cell phones due to stringent restrictions on memory and computational resources. In this paper, we present a simple and effective method to develop multilingual acoustic models that achieve comparable performance relative to monolingual acoustic models but with only a fraction of the storage space of the combined monolingual acoustic model set.

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Bibliographic reference.  Cheng, Yan Ming / Liu, Chen / Wei, Yuan-Jun / Melnar, Lynette / Ma, Changxue (2003): "An approach to multilingual acoustic modeling for portable devices", In EUROSPEECH-2003, 3121-3124.