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| Title | KALAKA-2: a TV Broadcast Speech Database for the Recognition of Iberian Languages in Clean and Noisy Environments |
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| Authors | Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes, Mikel Penagarikano, Amparo Varona, Mireia Diez and German Bordel |
| Abstract | This paper presents the main features (design issues, recording setup, etc.) of KALAKA-2, a TV broadcast speech database specifically designed for the development and evaluation of language recognition systems in clean and noisy environments. KALAKA-2 was created to support the Albayzin 2010 Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE), organized by the Spanish Network on Speech Technologies from June to November 2010. The database features 6 target languages: Basque, Catalan, English, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish, and includes segments in other (Out-Of-Set) languages, which allow to perform open-set verification tests. The best performance attained in the Albayzin 2010 LRE is presented and briefly discussed. The performance of a state-of-the-art system in various tasks defined on the database is also presented. In both cases, results highlight the suitability of KALAKA-2 as a benchmark for the development and evaluation of language recognition technology. |
| Topics | Speech resource/database, Language Identification, Validation of LRs |
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KALAKA-2: a TV Broadcast Speech Database for the Recognition of Iberian Languages in Clean and Noisy Environments |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{RODRIGUEZFUENTES12.486, author = {Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes and Mikel Penagarikano and Amparo Varona and Mireia Diez and German Bordel}, title = {KALAKA-2: a TV Broadcast Speech Database for the Recognition of Iberian Languages in Clean and Noisy Environments}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |