Automatic Speech Recognition with Very Large Conversational Finnish and Estonian Vocabularies
Computation and Language
2017-10-03 v5 Sound
Abstract
Today, the vocabulary size for language models in large vocabulary speech recognition is typically several hundreds of thousands of words. While this is already sufficient in some applications, the out-of-vocabulary words are still limiting the usability in others. In agglutinative languages the vocabulary for conversational speech should include millions of word forms to cover the spelling variations due to colloquial pronunciations, in addition to the word compounding and inflections. Very large vocabularies are also needed, for example, when the recognition of rare proper names is important.
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@article{arxiv.1707.04227,
title = {Automatic Speech Recognition with Very Large Conversational Finnish and Estonian Vocabularies},
author = {Seppo Enarvi and Peter Smit and Sami Virpioja and Mikko Kurimo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.04227},
year = {2017}
}