Multilingual acoustic models for speech recognition and synthesis
Siegfried Kunzmann, Volker Fischer, Johan Isay Guerrero González, Ossama Emam, Carsten Günther, Eric Janke · 2004
In this paper, we review the design of a common phone alphabet for up to fifteen languages and describe its application in two important components of a seamless multilingual conversational system, namely speech recognition and synthesis. We report on experiments that demonstrate the advantages of multilingual acoustic models both for the recognition of foreign names and non-native speech, and describe the usefulness of a common phone alphabet for the construction of unit selection based mono- and bilingual speech synthesis systems.