Product Description: In this work, the authors present a fully statistical approach to model non--native speakers' pronunciation. Second-language speakers pronounce words in multiple different ways compared to the native speakers. Those deviations, may it be phoneme substitutions, deletions or insertions, can be modelled automatically with the new method presented here...read more

Product Description: The authors address the problem of developing efficient automatic speech recognition systems that maintain a balance between utilizing a wide knowledge of speech variability, while keeping the training manageable and improving speech recognition performance.