- Tanja Schultz, A. Waibel. 1999. Experiments towards a multi-language LVCSR interface. Abstract: This paper describes experiments towards a multi language human-computer speech interface. Our in te1:face is designed for lar:qe vocabulary contin·uous 8peech inp11,t. For thi8 p11,rpose a m11,ltiling11,al dictation database has been collected under GlobalPhone, which is a project at the Interactive Systems Labs. This project investigates LVCSR systems in 15 langua_qes of the world, namely Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Eng lish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Por tug·aese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, and Turk ish. Based on a global phoneme set we build differ ent multilingual speech recognizer and present several pe1formance results in language independent and lan g11,age adaptive setups.
