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We present a new freely available corpus for German distant speech recognition and report speaker-independent word error rate (WER) results for two open source speech recognizers trained on this corpus. The corpus has been recorded in a controlled environment with three different microphones at a distance of one meter. It comprises 180 different speakers with a total of 36 hours of audio recordings. We show recognition results with the open source toolkit Kaldi (20.5% WER) and PocketSphinx (39.6% WER) and make a complete open source solution for German distant speech recognition possible.
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Radeck-Arneth, S. et al. (2015). Open Source German Distant Speech Recognition: Corpus and Acoustic Model. In: Král, P., Matoušek, V. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9302. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24033-6_54
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