Continuous Speech Recognition Consortium an Open Repository for CSR Tools and Models
Akinobu Lee, Tatsuya Kawahara, Kazuya Takeda, Masato Mimura, Atsushi Yamada, Akinori Ito, Katsunobu Itou, Kiyohiro Shikano · 2002
Continuous Speech Recognition Consortium (CSRC) was founded on 2000 to promote sharable high-quality platform for research and development of speech recognition.It is a continued work of the former Japanese Dictation Toolkit project from 1997 to 2000.An overview of the software developed in the first year (Oct.2000 -Sep.2001) is given in this paper.We have revised the LVCSR (large vocabulary continuous speech recognition) engine Julius, and constructed new acoustic models using very large speech corpora.Moreover, a variety of acoustic and language models as well as tools are being set up.Currently over 50 companies and academic institutes are joining.The software is available by contacting the address [email protected].