This paper presents a review of already collected non-native speech databases. Although
the number of non-native speech databases is significantly less than the one of common …

In this paper, we present our recent work in the analysis and modeling of speech under
dialect. Dialect and accent significantly influence automatic speech recognition …

This paper reports on a initial research activity in the area of non-native children's speech
recognition that was carried out by exploiting two children databases, one consisting of …

CorAIt is a non-native speech database for Italian, which is freely accessible online for
academic research purposes. It was especially designed to meet the requirements of a …

In this paper, the recognition performance for non-native English speech with two different
kinds of speaker-groupdependent acoustic models is investigated. The approaches for …

This paper presents an initial effort in the area of nonnative children's speech recognition by
exploiting two children databases, one consisting of speech collected from native English …

Identifying the accent of a speaker can improve the performance of speech recognition
systems. Furthermore it can be a useful tool in many other areas such as forensic speech …

In car infotainment systems commands and other words in the user's main language must be
recognized with maximum accuracy, but it should be possible to use foreign names as they …

This thesis introduces a new method for synthesizing multiple languages with the voice of
any speaker, so that for example Japanese speech can be synthesized with the voice of a …

Several accents of English are spoken in South Africa. Automatic speech recognition (ASR)
systems should therefore be able to process the di erent accents of South African English …