Paper Info
Title
Multilingual Speech Recognition for the Elderly: The AALFred Personal Life Assistant
Abstract
The PaeLife project is a European industry-academia collaboration in the framework of the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme (AAL JP), with a goal of developing a multimodal, multilingual virtual personal life assistant to help senior citizens remain active and socially integrated. Speech is one of the key interaction modalities of AALFred, the Windows application developed in the project; the application can be controlled using speech input in four European languages: French, Hungarian, Polish and Portuguese. This paper briefly presents the personal life assistant and then focuses on the speech-related achievements of the project. These include the collection, transcription and annotation of large corpora of elderly speech, the development of automatic speech recognisers optimised for elderly speakers, a speech modality component that can easily be reused in other applications, and an automatic grammar translation service that allows for fast expansion of the automatic speech recognition functionality to new languages.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.procs.2015.09.272
Procedia Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
ageing,automatic speech recognition,elderly,human-computer interaction,multilingual,multimodal,speech.
Modalities,Personal life,Speech corpus,Automatic speech,Annotation,Computer science,Portuguese,Grammar,Speech recognition,Speech technology
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
67
1877-0509
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Annika Hämäläinen1678.02
António J. S. Teixeira215235.26
Nuno Almeida34710.10
Hugo Meinedo425725.35
Tibor Fegyó56110.46
Miguel Sales Dias613324.96