2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

knowledge sources integration framework for multilingual speech recognition for minority language

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24700172
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Perception information processing/Intelligent robotics
Research Institution	Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Principal Investigator	SAKTI Sakriani 奈良先端科学技術大学院大学, 情報科学研究科, 助教 (00395005)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	音声情報処理 / 音声認識
Research Abstract	Various intangible cultural expressions are fragile and easily lost, and many indigenous people face isolation due to language and cultural barriers. Speech translation is significant for indigenous communities to preserve their cultural language and overcome language barriers. This research focuses on one part of speech translation system which developing a speech recognition for minority indigenous languages. We were successfully collect the data from the main minority languages existing in Indonesia, and analyze the characteristics of those languages. Furthermore, by incorporating efficient knowledge source into Indonesian ASR baseline, the ASR of minority languages were successfully been developed.