ISBN: 978-1-61567-378-0
9th Annual Conference of the International Speech
Communication Association 2008 (INTERSPEECH 2008)
Brisbane, Australia 22-26 September 2008
Volume 1 of 5
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FriSe3.P1 : Cross-Lingual and Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition, Speech Translation
Mezzanine Level Area A1, Time 13:30 – 15:30, Friday 26th September 2008 Chair: Alex Waibel
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FriSe3.P1-1 Czech-to-Slovak Adapted Broadcast News Transcription System
Jan Nouza,Jan Silovsky,Jindrich Zdansky,Petr Cerva,Martin Kroul,Josef Chaloupka, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic
Page2687
FriSe3.P1-2 Continuous Phone Recognition Without Target Language Training Data
Dau-Cheng Lyu1,Sabato Marco Siniscalchi2,Tae-Yoon Kim3,Chin-Hui Lee3
1Chang Gung University, Taiwan;2NTNU, Norway;3Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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FriSe3.P1-3 An Investigation of Acoustic Models for Multilingual Code-Switching
Christopher M. White,Sanjeev Khudanpur,James K. Baker, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Page2695
FriSe3.P1-4 Cross-Lingual Portability of MLP-Based Tandem Features — A Case Study for
English and Hungarian
László Tóth1,Joe Frankel2,Gábor Gosztolya1,Simon King2
1Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary;2University of Edinburgh, UK
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FriSe3.P1-5 Seed Models Combination and State Level Mappings of Cross-Lingual Transfer for
Rapid HMM Development: From English to Mandarin
Xufang Zhao,Douglas O’Shaughnessy, Université du Québec, Canada
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FriSe3.P1-6 Multi-Accent and Accent-Independent Non-Native Speech Recognition
Ghazi Bouselmi,Dominique Fohr,Irina Illina, LORIA, France
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FriSe3.P1-7 Cross-Lingual Sentence Extraction for Information Distillation Adish Kumar Singla,Dilek Hakkani-Tür, ICSI, USA