Pronunciation Modelling Group

Project

• Pronunciation Group Goal

People

• Michael Riley (AT&T Labs) [Team Leader]
• Bill Byrne (CLSP/JHU)
• Michael Finke (CMU)
• Sanjeev Khudanpur (CLSP/JHU)
• Chuck Wooters (DoD)
• George Zavaliagkos (BBN)
• John McDonough (BBN)
• Murat Saraclar (Stud. CLSP/JHU)
• Harriet Nock (Stud. Cambridge UK)

Pronunciation Modelling and Finite-State References

• Finite State References
• Finite State Machine Lecture Notes (Mike Riley)

Data

• The ICSI Switchboard Transcription Project (STP)
• CLSP ftp site
• An example of automatic vs. manual transcription

Reports

• Final Technical Report
• Notes from Chantilly Meeting 2.4.97
• Notes from JHU Meeting 16.5.97
• Notes from JHU Meeting 23.6.97
• Vanilla System Progress Report 10.7.97 and Notes
• Progress report 15.8.97 and Further Info
• Final Presentation 22.7.97

Publications

• Byrne W, Finke M, Khudanpur S, McDonough J, Nock H, Riley M, Saraclar M, Wooters C and Zavaliagkos G, "Pronunciation Modelling Using a Hand-Labelled Corpus for Conversational Speech Recognition," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seattle, WA, 1998.

• Byrne W, Finke M, Khudanpur S, McDonough J, Nock H, Riley M, Saraclar M, Wooters C and Zavaliagkos G, "Pronunciation Modelling for Conversational Speech Recognition: A Status Report from WS97," Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA, December 1997.

• Riley, M., Byrne, W., Finke, M., Khudanpur, S., Ljolje, A. McDonough, J., Nock, H., Saraclar, M., Wooters, C., Zavaliagkos. "Stochastic pronunciation modeling from hand-labeled phonetic corpora," in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Modeling Pronunciation Variation for Automatic Speech Recognition, Rolduc, The Netherlands, May 4-6, 1998. pp 109-116

• Michael Riley, William Byrne, Michael Finke, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Andrej Ljolje, John McDonough, Harriet Nock, Murat Saraclar, Charles Wooters, George Zavaliagkos "Stochastic pronunciation modelling from hand-labelled phonetic corpora," Speech Communication, to appear.