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Speech & natural language publications January 1, 2008

Recognizing Arabic speakers with English phones

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A. Stolcke and S. Kajarekar, “Recognizing Arabic speakers with English phones,” In Proc. Odyssey:  The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, 2008.

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We investigate the question of whether phone recognition models trained on large English databases can be used for speaker recognition in another language. Such a cross-language use of recognition models is an attractive option when a speaker recognition system is to be ported to a new language without the necessary data resources, while retaining some of the advantages of phone modeling and ASR-based feature extraction. We compare the performance of such systems to a baseline cepstral GMM system (which is inherently language independent), and to a phone-recognition-based system trained exclusively on Arabic data. Our results indicate that cross-language models are highly competitive, and, at least in our case, have a performance advantage over within-language training and the language-independent baseline. We also examine the effect of coverage of colloquial Arabic dialects in the training data.

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