NDLI: An integrated language identification for code- switched speech using decoded-phonemes and support vector machine

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Author	Mabokela, K.R. Manamela, M.J.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Limpopo, Polokwane, South Africa (Mabokela, K.R.; Manamela, M.J.)
Abstract	Automatic language identification (LID) is a specialized area of Human Language Technology in which the language(s) used in spoken utterances are identified and correctly classified given a predetermined number of targeted languages. Currently, most multilingual speakers have the ability and tendency for engaging in code-switching - a mixed-language phenomenon that is referred to as the usage of more than one language in utterances. This paper presents the proposed scheme for automatic language identification integrated with an automatic speech recognition system to identify languages used in a mixed-language speech context. The front-end speech recognition system feeds the decoded phonemes into the LID system. We used hidden Markov models to build acoustic models of a combined phoneme set that handles multiple languages within an utterance. A spoken utterance is converted into feature vectors with attributes that represents the statistical occurrences of each acoustic units. A supervised support vector machine (SVM) technique is trained with feature vector sequences of phoneme units. The back-end SVM classifier based on n-gram structures is used to classify/identify the phoneme feature vectors. We conducted experiments with two commonly mixed Northern Sotho and English telephone-based speech corpora. The experimental results showed that, by using shared phonemic vowels in the combined phoneme set, the word error rate (WER) was reduced with 3.6%. Moreover, the proposed approach yields significantly acceptable performance with language identification rate of 85.0% on code-switched speech corpus.
Sponsorship	IEEE Romania Sect.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
File Size	461347
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1109/SpeD.2013.6682661
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-10-16
Publisher Place	Romania
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Dictionaries code-switching decoded phonemes Speech coding speech recognition support vector machine n-gram models language identification Hidden Markov models Support vector machine classification Speech recognition Speech Feature extraction
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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