Speedata: a prototype for multilingual spoken data-entry
Ulla Ackermann, Bianca Angelini, Fabio Brugnara, Marcello Federico, Diego Giuliani, Roberto Gretter, Heinrich Niemann · 1997
In this work we describe the development and evaluation of SpeeData, a prototype for multilingual spoken dataentry. The SpeeData project aims at developing a demonstrator that provides a user-friendly interface for spoken data-entry in two languages: Italian and German. A real world application domain is considered, which is the Land Register of an Italian region in which both languages are officially spoken. Original topics of this paper are the interaction modality for spoken data-entry, the evaluation of a data-entry system, bilingual speech recognition, bilingual speaker adaptation. 1. INTRODUCTION Data-entry can be particularly costly when non electronic information - e.g. contained in documents or pictures - has to be interpreted by a domain expert before being stored into the computer - e.g. medical reporting, diagnostics, cataloging, etc. SpeeData [1] aims at exploring how to gain efficiency in this task by employing state-ofthe -art ASR technology. The ideal scenario would b...