Multilingual Speech Processing References

• Overview
  • Multilingual Information Management: Current Levels and Future Abilities, E. Hovy et al.,1998

• Czech and Slavic ASR
  • Serbo-Croatian LVCSR on the Dictation and Broadcast News Domain P. Scheytt, P. Geutner, A. Waibel (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) ICASSP 98
  • Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition for Read and Broadcast Czech W. Byrne, J. Hajic, P. Ircing, F. Jelinek, S. Khudanpur, J. McDonough, N. Peterek, J. Psutka TSD 99

• Multilingual Speech Recognition, Including Dialect Studies
  • Language Independent and Language Adaptive Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition Tanja Schultz, Interactive Systems Laboratories (Germany) Alex Waibel, Interactive Systems Laboratories (USA) ICSLP 1998
  • Integrated Multilingual Speech Recognition - Impact on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, Li Deng Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, Singapore, December 7-9, 1998, pp. 22-30.
  • Adaptive Vocabularies for Transcribing Multilingual Broadcast News, P. Geutner, M. Finke, P. Scheytt, ICASSP 1998
  • Speaker-Independent Upfront Dialect Adaptation in a Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognizer, Volker Fischer, IBM Speech Systems, European Speech Research (Germany) Yuqing Gao, IBM Research, Human Language Technologies (USA) Eric Janke, IBM United Kingdom Laboratories (U.K.) ICSLP'98
  • Phonetic-Distance-Based Hypothesis Driven Lexical Adaptation for Transcribing Multilingual Broadcast News, P.Geutner, M.Finke, A.Waibel, ICSLP 1998
  • German Regional Variants - A Problem for Automatic Speech Recognition? Nicole Beringer et al ICSLP'98
  • Improving Accent Identification Through Knowledge Of English Syllable Structure , Kay Berkling, Marc Zissman, Julie Vonwiller, Christopher Cleirigh ICSLP'98
  • A Comparison of Two Unsupervised Approaches to Accent Identification M Lincoln, S Cox, S Ringland ICSLP'98
  • Spanish Dialects: Phonetic Transcription Asunción Moreno, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (Spain) José B. Mariño, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (Spain) ICSLP'98
  • Transcribing Multilingual Broadcast News using Hypothesis Driven Lexical Adaptation, P. Geutner, M. Finke, P. Scheytt, A. Waibel, H. Wactlar, 1998 DARPA Hub4 Workshop
  • JANUS-III: Speech-To-Speech Translation in Multiple Languages, Alon Lavie, Alex Waibel, Lori Levin, Michael Finke, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavalda, Torsten Zeppenfeld and Puming Zhan, ICASSP 1997
  • Multi-lingual Phoneme Recognition Exploiting Acoustic-Phonetic Similarities of Sounds Joachim Kohler ICSLP 1996

• Modeling Techniques
  • Effective Structural Adaptation of LVCSR Systems to Unseen Domains Using Hierarchical Connectionist Acoustic Models, J.Fritsch, M.Finke, A.Waibel, ICSLP 1998
  • Statistical Modeling of Pronunciation and Production Variations for Speech Recognition , F. Korkmazskiy, B-H Juang ICSLP'98
  • Recurrent Substrings and Data Fusion for Language Recognition, Harvey Lloyd-Thomas, Ensigma (U.K.) Eluned S. Parris, Ensigma (U.K.) Jeremy H. Wright, AT&T (USA) ICSLP'98

• Discriminative Model Combination (DMC) papers by Peter Beyerlein
  • Discriminative Model Combination, ASRU 1997
  • Discriminative Model Combination, ICASSP 1998
  • The Philips/RWTH System for Transcription of Broadcast News, ARPA 1999 BN workshop