Global Phone Language Models

by Ngoc Thang Vu, Tanja Schultz, 2012

Introduction

GlobalPhone is an ongoing database collection that provides transcribed speech data for the development and evaluation of large speech processing systems in the most widespread languages of the world. GlobalPhone is designed to be uniform across languages with respect to the amount of text and audio data per language, the audio data quality (microphone, noise, channel), the collection scenario (task, setup, speaking style etc.), and the transcription conventions. The GlobalPhone corpus provides an excellent basis for research in the areas of (1) multilingual speech recognition, (2) rapid deployment of speech processing systems to new languages, (3) language and speaker identification tasks, (4) multilingual speech synthesis, (5) monolingual speech recognition in a large variety of languages, as well as (6) comparisons across major languages based on text and speech data.

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Tanja Schultz

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank to all who have helped us to collect the data corpus.

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