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Advances in speech processing research rely on the availability of public resources such as corpora, statistical models and baseline systems. In contrast to languages such as English, there are few specific resources for Brazilian Portuguese. This work describes efforts aiming to decrease such gap. Baseline acoustic models for Brazilian Portuguese were built using the CMU Sphinx toolkit and public domain resources: speech corpora, phonetic dictionary and language model. Experiments were carried on for dictation and grammar tasks and the obtained results can be used to support further researches. Part of the trained acoustic models and a reference speech corpus were made publicly available.
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Oliveira, R., Batista, P., Neto, N., Klautau, A. (2012). Baseline Acoustic Models for Brazilian Portuguese Using CMU Sphinx Tools. In: Caseli, H., Villavicencio, A., Teixeira, A., Perdigão, F. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28885-2_42
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