SALSA version 3.0: a single recognizer-based multilingual speech-based web browser
Amélie Plu, Ma Chi Yuen, Pascale Fung · 2000
In this paper, we present the new version of SALSA (SALSA 3.0), a multilingual speech-based Web browser, that can recognize user commands and link names in French, German, Spanish, in addition to the original Mandarin, Cantonese and English. The first language for SALSA is naturally English, as above 96% of the web content is in English. As we are developing SALSA in Hong Kong, it is rather normal that the next languages recognizable by SALSA are Cantonese and Mandarin. So SALSA is trilingual from the beginning. In an effort to further internationalize SALSA, it is updated with European languages. The chosen languages are French, Spanish and German as these are the main European languages on the Web. SALSA uses a single recognizer with a common acoustic model for all languages so that a user can browse web pages, in different languages as well as in mixed languages, back and forth seamlessly. In this paper, we discuss issues pertinent to the multilingual SALSA with Asian and European l...