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This paper describes the automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems developed by LIUM in the framework of the 2016 Multi-Genre Broadcast (MGB-2) Challenge in the Arabic l...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
This paper describes the automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems developed by LIUM in the framework of the 2016 Multi-Genre Broadcast (MGB-2) Challenge in the Arabic language. LIUM participated in the first of the two proposed tasks, namely the speech-to-text transcription of Aljazeera recordings. We present the approaches and details found in our systems, as well as our results in the evaluation campaign: the primary LIUM ASR system attained the second position. The main aspects come from the use of GMM-derived features for training a DNN, combined with the use of time-delay neural networks for acoustic models, the use of two different approaches in order to automatically phonetize Arabic words, and finally, the training data selection strategy for acoustic and language models.
Published in: 2016 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)
Date of Conference: 13-16 December 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 09 February 2017
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