- Tanja Schultz, A. Waibel. 2001. ON CROSS-LANGUAGE ACOUSTIC MODELING. Abstract: With thedistribution of speechproductsall over theworld, theportability to new target languagesbecomesa practical concern. As a consequenceour researchfocuseson rapid transferof LVCSR systemsto other languages.In former studieswe evaluatedthe performanceif limited adaptation datais available.Particularlyfor verytimeconstrainedtasks andminority languages, it is evenreasonablethatno training datais availableat all. In this paperwe examinewhat performancecanbe expectedin this scenario.All experimentsarerunin theframeworkof theGlobalPhone project which investigatesLVCSRsystemsin 15 languages.
