The objective of this paper is to describe some preliminary results of the activity that is being carried out in IRST laboratories for the development of an HMM-based speaker independent continuous speech recognition system for the Italian language. The recognition system is being developed using the acoustic-phonetic continuous speech portion of APASCI database, also described in this paper. Performance is reported for different recognition tasks that were considered: without any phonetic constraint, the system provided a 72% Phone Accuracy; further, given a vocabulary size of 1019 words and no lexical constraints, a 73% Word Accuracy was achieved.
Keywords: Speaker Independent Continuous Speech Recognition, Speech Databases, Hidden Markov Models.
Cite as: Angelini, B., Brugnara, F., Falavigna, D., Giuliani, D., Gretter, R., Omologo, M. (1993) A baseline of a speaker independent continuous speech recognizer of Italian. Proc. 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1993), 847-850, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1993-194
@inproceedings{angelini93b_eurospeech,
author={B. Angelini and F. Brugnara and D. Falavigna and D. Giuliani and R. Gretter and M. Omologo},
title={{A baseline of a speaker independent continuous speech recognizer of Italian}},
year=1993,
booktitle={Proc. 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1993)},
pages={847--850},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1993-194}
}