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OrienTel - Multilingual access to interactive communication services for the Mediterranean and the Middle East
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002)
Abstract
OrienTel is a project funded within the European Commission's IST framework that focuses on collecting linguistic data for telephony-based IT applications across the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Languages covered in this SpeechDat-based project are Cypriote Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, different varieties of Arabic, French, English and German. Within the project's lifetime of 30 months, starting in September 2001, OrienTel will produce a set of 22 databases, develop dialect adaptation techniques, conduct research into multilingual acoustic modelling and deploy two demonstrators as a proof of concept.