1 / 18

Database for an Automatic Speech Recognition System for Argentine Spanish

Jorge Gurlekian, Laura Colantoni, Humberto Torres Laboratorio de Investigaciones Sensoriales (LIS), CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Antonio Rinc

Jims
Download Presentation

Database for an Automatic Speech Recognition System for Argentine Spanish

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

    1. Database for an Automatic Speech Recognition System for Argentine Spanish Prosodic Database for an Argentine Spanish Text to Speech System

    3. 1) Linguistic definitions • Corpus • Prompt sheet • Dialectal areas 2) Technical setup • Recording platform • Recording software 3) Speakers • Age groups • Recruitment

    5. Jorge Gurlekian LIS, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina Hernán Rodríguez Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Laura Colantoni LIS, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina Humberto Torres LIS, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    7. 1) Corpus • Training Texts • Selection of the syllables • 741 final sentences 2) Recording and labelling • Recording software • Software for labelling • ToBI for Argentine Spanish 3) Population • Automatic loading of text files • Functions included into the database

    10. Word accents: American English ToBI H* L* L*+H L+H* H+H* Argentine Spanish ToBI nH* nL* nL*+Hm Lm+nH* Hm+nH* plus: nH*+Lm Hm+nL* nH*+Hm Phrase accents: H- L- Boundary tones: American English ToBI Initial: %H Final: L% or H% Argentine Spanish ToBI Initial: n%L or n%H Final: nL% or nH%

    14. • Spelling • Isolated words • Numerals • Directory assistance information • Sentences containing all the SAMPA symbols • Sentences with words used in software interaction • Sentences containing temporal expressions

    15. Words (interaction with software) Sequence of 10 isolated digits Sheet number (6 digits) Telephone number (9-11 digits) Credit card number (14-16 digits) PIN code (6 digits) Spontaneous date, e.g. birthday Prompted date Relative and general date expression Sentence (interaction with software) Isolated digits Spelling of surname Spelling of directory city name Spelling of real/artificial words

    16. Recording Platform: Pentium PC computer with an AVM-ISDN-A1 board, and an ISDN basic access (BRI) interface Recording software: Automatic recording system for telephone calls

    17. Age groups: • 16-30 • 31-45 • 46-60 Recruitment: Universities, professors, students, friends and relatives

More Related