Advances in Acoustic Modeling for the Recognition of Czech

Authors:
Jiří Kopecký;Ondřej Glembek;Martin Karafiát
Affiliations:
Speech@FIT, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic 612 66;Speech@FIT, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic 612 66;Speech@FIT, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic 612 66
Venue:
TSD '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
Year:
2008

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Abstract

This paper presents recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition for the Czech Language. Improvements were achieved both in acoustic and language modeling. We mainly aim on the acoustic part of the issue. The results are presented in two contexts, the lecture recognition and SpeeCon+Temic test set. The paper shows the impact of using advanced modeling techniques such as HLDA, VTLN and CMLLR. On the lecture test set, we show that training acoustic models using word networks together with the pronunciation dictionary gives about 4---5% absolute performance improvement as opposed to using direct phonetic transcriptions. An effect of incorporating the "schwa" phoneme in the training phase shows a slight improvement.