1st International IEEE Conference on Pervasive Services

Research Article

Language Independent Dictionary Creation using International Phoneticizing Engine for Speech Recognition

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283895,
        author={In-sung Woo and Chwa-cheul Shin and Heung-soon Kang and Suk-dong Kim},
        title={Language Independent Dictionary Creation using International Phoneticizing Engine for Speech Recognition},
        proceedings={1st International IEEE Conference on Pervasive Services},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={ICPS},
        year={2007},
        month={8},
        keywords={Automatic speech recognition  Computer science  Dictionaries  Engines  Human computer interaction  Java  Machine learning  Natural languages  Speech processing  Speech recognition},
        doi={10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283895}
    }
    
  • In-sung Woo
    Chwa-cheul Shin
    Heung-soon Kang
    Suk-dong Kim
    Year: 2007
    Language Independent Dictionary Creation using International Phoneticizing Engine for Speech Recognition
    ICPS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283895
In-sung Woo1, Chwa-cheul Shin1, Heung-soon Kang1, Suk-dong Kim1
  • 1: Dept. of Computer Science, Hoseo University, Republic of Korea

Abstract

Software internationalization, the process of making software easier to localize for specific language, has deep implications when applied to speech technology, where the goal of the task lies in the very essence of the particular language. Our work makes two contributions: it proposes a systematic procedure for the internationalization of automatic speech recognition systems. It also proposes a particular decomposition of the phoneticization process that facilitates internationalization by non-expert preparers. We study an international phoneticizing engine that interprets input files supplied in our phonetic language identity format to build a dictionary. IPE is language independent and rule based. Dictionaries created by the IPE can be used with the speech recognition system. IPE defines an easy-to-use systematic approach that can lead to internationalization of automatic speech recognition systems.