Lori Lamel

Effective keyword search for low-resourced conversational speech

2017

In this paper we aim to enhance keyword search for conversational telephone speech under low-resourced conditions. Two techniques to improve the detection of out-of-vocabulary keywords are assessed in this study: using extra text resources to …

Breaking the Unwritten Language Barrier: The BULB Project

2016 · Procedia Computer Science

The project Breaking the Unwritten Language Barrier (BULB), which brings together linguists and computer scientists, aims at supporting linguists in documenting unwritten languages. In order to achieve this we develop tools tailored to the needs …

A Very Low Resource Language Speech Corpus for Computational Language Documentation Experiments

2018

Most speech and language technologies are trained with massive amounts of speech and text information.However, most of the world languages do not have such resources and some even lack a stable orthography.Building systems under these …