The berkeley restaurant project
Daniel S. Jurafsky, Chuck Wooters, Gary N. Tajchman, Jonathan Segal, Andreas Stolcke, Eric Fosler, Nelson H. Morgan · 1994
This paper describes the architecture and performance of the Berkeley Restaurant Project (BeRP), a medium-vocabulary, speaker-independent, spontaneous continuous speech understanding system currently under development at ICSI. BeRP serves as a testbed for a number of our speech-related research projects, including robust feature extraction, connectionist phonetic likelihood estimation, automatic induction of multiplepronunciation lexicons, foreign accent detection and modeling, advanced language models, and lip-reading. In addition, it has proved quite usable in its function as a database frontend, even though many of our subjects are non-native speakers of English.