Different language modeling approaches are evaluated on two under-resourced,
agglutinative, South African languages; Sesotho and isiZulu. The two languages present …

Current speech recognition systems with fixed vocabularies have difficulties recognizing Out-
of-Vocabulary words (OOVs) such as proper nouns and new words. This leads to …

In this paper the authors present a speech corpus designed and created for the
development and evaluation of dictation systems in Latvian. The corpus consists of over …

Stød is a prosodic feature in Danish spoken language that is able to distinguish lexemes.
This distinction can also identify word class and has the potential to improve the …

Developing a large vocabulary automatic speech recognition system is a very difficult task,
due to the high variations in domain and acoustic variability. This task is even more difficult …

In this paper, we introduce the first dictation system for the Latvian language. We present its
main features, the details of the automatic speech recognition (ASR) system used in this …

We present the results of the Latvian IT Competence Centre (IT CC) in developing several
essential language technologies and applications. 11 language technology projects have …

In recent years, the success of speech technologies like speech recognition and speech
synthesis for languages like English has prompted a new excitement about spoken …

Abstract In Natural Language Processing (NLP), together with speech, text is one of the
main sources of information. Computational systems that process raw text need to perform a …