Arrangement for real-time automatic recognition of accented speech

摘要

An automatic speech recognition (ASR) apparatus (100) has a database (108) of a plurality of clusters (110) of speech-recognition data each corresponding to a different accent and containing words and phonemes spoken with the corresponding accent, an accent identifier (104) that identifies the accent of incoming speech signals, and a speech recognizer that effects ASR of the speech signals by using the cluster that corresponds to the identified accent.