U.S.-Czech Cooperative Research: Speech Recognition of a Slavic Language

捷克语属于斯拉夫语系，其语言现象对语音识别具有挑战性。高度的屈折变化，高度的派生，相对自由的词序，以及没有出现在其他语言中的电话等特征使语音识别变得困难。约翰霍普金斯大学语言和语音处理中心与来自捷克共和国的三个大学团队合作，开发了一个独立于说话者的捷克语大词汇连续语音识别器。拟议的研究正试图利用约翰霍普金斯大学研究人员的经验和工具、捷克合作伙伴的能力以及他们拥有的大量文本资源所提供的协同机会。这项研究合作将建立国际科学联系，并在美国以外建立新的语言工程卓越中心。

Czech belongs to the family of Slavic languages, which exhibit phenomena that will prove challenging to speech recognition. The characteristics of a high degree of inflection, a high degree of derivation, a relatively free word order, and having phones that appear in no other language make speech recognition difficult. The development of a large vocabulary speaker independent continuous speech recognizer for Czech is proposed as a collaborative effort between Johns Hopkins' Center for Language and Speech Processing and three university teams from the Czech Republic. The proposed research is attempting to take advantage of the synergistic opportunities offered by the experience and tools of Johns Hopkins researchers, by the capabilities of the Czech partners, and by the existence of extensive text resources in their possession. The research cooperation will forge international scientific ties and create new centers of language engineering excellence outside the United States.