Recognition of voice commands using adaptation of foreign language speech recognizer via selection of phonetic transcriptions

Rytis Maskeliunas, Vytautas Rudzionis
2011 Open Engineering  
AbstractIn recent years various commercial speech recognizers have become available. These recognizers provide the possibility to develop applications incorporating various speech recognition techniques easily and quickly. All of these commercial recognizers are typically targeted to widely spoken languages having large market potential; however, it may be possible to adapt available commercial recognizers for use in environments where less widely spoken languages are used. Since most
more » ... recognition engines are closed systems the single avenue for the adaptation is to try set ways for the selection of proper phonetic transcription methods between the two languages. This paper deals with the methods to find the phonetic transcriptions for Lithuanian voice commands to be recognized using English speech engines. The experimental evaluation showed that it is possible to find phonetic transcriptions that will enable the recognition of Lithuanian voice commands with recognition accuracy of over 90%.
doi:10.2478/s13531-011-0017-6 fatcat:prowmhu7gfhlnlzfpszafis7jy