In this paper we present the results obtained when evaluating the Natural Numbers Recognizer of Telefónica I+D over some particular dialects of Spanish from Spain and America. The evaluation was made over two different data sets corresponding to two different situations. A first set includes dialects of Spanish from Spain, that were considered in the training and design of our baseline system, and a second set corresponds to Argentinian Spanish, that was not considered to train the original system. Just because we are interested in a system able to be used by a wide range of users, we tested the possibilities of MAP (Maximum-A-Priori techniques) to adapt the original HMMs in order to represent all the dialects. The experimental results show the capabilities of our recognizer to be used in applications spread over a great number of Spanish-speaking countries.
Cite as: Torre, C.d.l., Caminero-Gil, J., Alvarez, J., Martín del Alamo, C., Hernández-Gómez, L. (1996) Evaluation of the telefónica i+d natural numbers recognizer over different dialects of Spanish from Spain and America. Proc. 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1996), 2032-2035, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.1996-515
@inproceedings{torre96_icslp,
author={C. de la Torre and J. Caminero-Gil and J. Alvarez and Cesar {Martín del Alamo} and Lúis Hernández-Gómez},
title={{Evaluation of the telefónica i+d natural numbers recognizer over different dialects of Spanish from Spain and America}},
year=1996,
booktitle={Proc. 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1996)},
pages={2032--2035},
doi={10.21437/ICSLP.1996-515}
}