ENGLISH SPEAKER IN AN INTERNATIONAL SETTING ACOUSTIC AND LANGUAGE MODEL LlBRAR AFRIKAANS ALBANIAN ARABIC AZERBAIJANI
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Automatic language identification is the process by which the language of a digitized speech utterance is recognized by a computer. In this paper, we will describe the set of available cues for language identification and discuss the different approaches to building working systems. This overview includes a range of historic approaches, contemporary systems that have been evaluated on standard databases, as well as promising future approaches. Comparative results are also reported.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000