A first speech recognition system for Mandarin-English code-switch conversational speech

• Main Authors: Vu, Ngoc Thang, Lyu, Dau-Cheng, Weiner, Jochen, Telaar, Dominic, Schlippe, Tim, Blaicher, Fabian, Chng, Eng Siong, Schultz, Tanja, Li, Haizhou
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98522; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13411
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper presents first steps toward a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system (LVCSR) for conversational Mandarin-English code-switching (CS) speech. We applied state-of-the-art techniques such as speaker adaptive and discriminative training to build the first baseline system on the...