Multilingual Speech Recognition
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چکیده
The speech-to-speech translation system Verbmobil requires a multilingual setting. This consists of recognition engines in the three languages German, English and Japanese that run in one common framework together with a language identification component which is able to switch between these recognizers. This article describes the challenges of multilingual speech recognition and presents different solutions to the problem of the automatic language identification task. The combination of the described components results in a flexible and user-friendly multilingual spoken dialog system.
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