Comparing Open Source ASR Toolkits on Italian Children Speech

In this paper, we consider two different aspects of the automatic speech recognition task: the effectiveness of using open-source ASR toolkits and the quite problematic recognition of children speech. On this difficult task, we compare three well established and widely available ASR toolkits and we finally demonstrate the feasibility of applying these results to speech recognition and spoken dialogue system design. Even if various open source ASR toolkits are now available, we were mainly interested in evaluate the usability of the relatively new BAVIECA system in comparison to two systems (SONIC and SPHINX) for which we had already various results in past experiments on children
speech. This paper is intended to provide the reader with a simple overview of the solutions adopted by the three different systems under investigation and with the demonstration of their effectiveness on children speech. Furthermore, the paper provides suggestions for future research directions in the field.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Contributo in atti di convegno
Author or Creator: 
Cosi
P.
Nicolao
M.
G.
Paci
Sommavilla
Tesser
F.
Publisher: 
ISCA, International speech communication association, Baixas, FRA
Source: 
WOCCI 2014, 4th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction, Singapore, September 19th, 2014
Date: 
2014
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/296733
http://www.wocci.org/proceedings/2014/wocci2014_proceedings.pdf
Language: 
Eng
ISTC Author: 
Ritratto di Fabio Tesser
Real name: 
Ritratto di Piero Cosi
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