Cross Domain Automatic Transcription on the TC-STAR EPPS Corpus

Christian Gollan, Maximilian Bisani, Stephan Kanthak, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Abstract: This paper describes the ongoing development of the British English European Parliament Plenary Session corpus. This corpus will be part of the speech-to-speech translation evaluation infrastructure of the European TC-STAR project. Furthermore, we present first recognition results on the English speech recordings. The transcription system has been derived from an older speech recognition system built for the North-American broadcast news task. We report on the measures taken for rapid cross-domain porting and present encouraging results.