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In the paper we present current activities and some preliminary results of a joint project in designing a spoken dialogue system for Slovenian and Croatian weather information retrieval. We give a brief description of the system design, of the procedures we have performed in order to obtain domain specific speech databases and monolingual and bilingual speech recognition experiments. Recognition results for Croatian and Slovenian speech are presented, as well as bilingual speech recognition results when using common acoustic models. We propose two different approaches to the language identification problem and show recognition results for the two acoustically similar languages like Slovenian and Croatian.
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Martinčić-Ipšić, S., Žibert, J., Ipšić, I., Mihelič, F., Pavešić, N. (2003). Bilingual Speech Recognition for a Weather Information Retrieval Dialogue System. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2807. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39398-6_54
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