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title: "The FOPHO Speech Recognition Project"
authors:
  - "Mary O'Kane"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/149"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0149.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1983
pages: "630-631"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
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# The FOPHO Speech Recognition Project

Mary O'Kane

*Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 630-631.

## Abstract

The FOPHO (Foreign Phonetician) speech recognition pro}ect con~ns the development of a system to produce a r easonably high quality phonetic transcription output from continuous speech input. The system is developed to perform in a way which approximates the actions of a phonetician trying to transcribe a foreign tongue, (in the case of FOPHO, AustralianEnglish). Because of this central philosophy, FOPHO is a very interactive system and has facilities for automatic learning and analysis of its own performance. Good quality recognition is achieved through algorithms which are very context-dependent and which are sensitive to a variety of possible productions of similar sounds even though the system itself is speaker independent.