The Philips Research system for continuous-speech recognition

This paper gives an overview of the Philips Research system for continuous-speech recognition. The recognition architecture is based on an integrated statistical approach. The system has been successfully applied to various tasks in American English and German, ranging from small vocabulary tasks to very large vocabulary tasks and from recognition only to speech understanding. Here, we concentrate on phoneme-based continuous-speech recognition for large vocabulary recognition as used for dictation, which covers a significant part of our research work on speech recognition. We describe this task and report on experimental results. In order to allow a comparison with the performance of other systems, a section with an evaluation on the standard North American Business news (NAB2) task (dictation of American English newspaper text) is supplied.

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