Polish speech dictation system as an application of voice interfaces

Abstract

This paper presents the results of the project realized at PSNC and supported by The Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education - "Integrated system of automatic speech-to-text conversion based on linguistic modeling designed in the environment of the analysis and legal documentation workflow for the needs of homeland security", aiming at developing a Polish speech dictation (or Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition, LVCSR) system designed with the use of a phonetically controlled large vocabulary speech corpus and a large text corpora. The functions of the resulting system are outlined, the software architecture is presented briefly, then the example applications are demonstrated and the recognition results are discussed. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.