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LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION USING A COMBINED ARTICULATORY PROSODY FRAMEWORK

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Language Identification

Presented by: John Hansen, Author(s): Abhijeet Sangwan, Mahnoosh Mehrabani, John Hansen, The University of Texas at Dallas, United States

This study presents new advancements in our articulatory-based language identification (LID) system. Our LID system automatically identifies language-features (LFs) from a phonological features (PFs) based representation of speech. While our baseline system uses a static PF-representation for extracting LFs, the new system is based on a dynamic PF representation for feature extraction. Interestingly, the new LFs outperform our baseline system by 11.8% absolute in a difficult 5-way classification task of South Indian Languages. Additionally, we incorporate pitch and energy based features in our new system to leverage prosody in classification. In particular, we employ a Legendre polynomial based contour-estimation to capture shape parameters which are used in classification. Additionally, the fusion of PF and prosody-based LFs further improves the overall classification result by 16.5% absolute over the baseline system. Finally, the proposed articulatory language ID system is combined with a PPRLM (parallel phone recognition language model) system to obtain an overall classification accuracy of 86.6%.


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Recorded: 2011-05-24 10:55 - 11:15, Panorama
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