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Transcription System for Semi-Spontaneous Estonian Speech
Tanel Alumäe
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10.3233/978-1-61499-133-5-10
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume 247: Human Language Technologies – The Baltic Perspective
Abstract

This paper describes a speech-to-text system for semi-spontaneous Estonian speech. The system is trained on about 100 hours of manually transcribed speech and a 300M word text corpus. Compound words are split before building the language model and reconstructed from recognizer output using a hidden event N-gram model. We use a three pass transcription strategy with unsupervised speaker adaptation between individual passes. The system achieves a word error rate of 34.6% on conference speeches and 25.6% on radio talk shows.

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