Language models for name recognition in spanish spoken dialogue systems

Current advances on dialogue system require the development of language models for automatic speech recognition that are not only domain or task specific but also sub-task specific (e.g. name, age or price recognition). This paper presents a method for the creation of language models for name recognition at the greeting stage of a conversation in spoken Spanish. In particular, we focus on the introductory phrases (e.g., mi nombre es John/my name is John). The method relies in the construction of a corpus for names, and we study two variants; in one names are uniformly distributed; in the other, names are represented in a manner consistent with their frequency in web-searches.

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