Bilingual Speech Recognition for Weather Information Retrieval Dialog System
Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić, Janez Žibert, Ivo Ipšić, Nikola Pavešić · Text, Speech and Dialogue · 2003
In the paper we present current activities and some preliminary results of a joint project in designing a spoken dialog system for Slovenian and Croatian weather information retrieval. We give a brief description of the system design, of the procedures we have performed in order to obtain domain specific speech databases and monolingual and bilingual speech recognition experiments. Recognition results for Croatian and Slovenian speech are presented, as well as bilingual speech recognition results when using common acoustic models. We propose two different approaches to the language identification problem and show recognition results for the two acoustically similar languages like Slovenian and Croatian.