Abstract
AbstractNow that dictation systems have become a reality, research on large‐vocabulary voice recognition is shifting from “read speech” to “spontaneous speech.” The features of this kind of spontaneous speech have been investigated from various perspectives using a corpus of dialog speech. However, in particular for the Japanese language, creating a voice recognition system which has massive amounts of data and is based on statistical methods is not necessarily sufficient. There have been few reports on the performance of a large‐vocabulary voice recognition system whose purpose is tagging spontaneous speech. The authors have prepared a spontaneous speech corpus using as materials lecture speeches from the University of the Air for the purpose of improving the recognition precision for spontaneous speech. They report here on the recognition performance of their large‐vocabulary spontaneous speech recognition system created using this corpus. The results of experiments showed that the word error rate for lecture speeches, which was 51.5% under conventional systems that use reading, was reduced to 16.4%. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electron Comm Jpn Pt 3, 86(8): 52–60, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www. interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/ecjc.10105
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