Speech Recognition with Limited Resources for Children and Adult Speakers
Edith Moya, Manuel Hernandez, Luis A. Pineda, Iván Meza · 2011
Children are natural users of speech technology. However, children speech has been proved to be harder than adults. This implies that in order to build a children speech recogniser that is comparable with an adult recogniser it would be necessary a larger amount of recordings. In this paper, we present our experiments building such recognisers but with a limited amount of resources, this is a corpus with few speakers and recordings. We explore the effects of combining both resources in different ways. We also show the performance of the recognisers in a real life scenario with spontaneous speech.