@conference{274, keywords = {Computing and Processing, Robotics and Control Systems, Signal Processing and Analysis, Dictionaries, Speech recognition, Speech, Training, Standards, Hidden Markov models, Training data}, author = {Oluwapelumi Giwa and Marelie Davel}, title = {The Effect of Language Identification Accuracy on Speech Recognition Accuracy of Proper Names}, abstract = {Utilizing the known language of origin of a name can be useful when predicting the pronunciation of the name. When this language is not known, automatic language identification (LID) can be used to influence which language-specific grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) predictor is triggered to produce a pronunciation for the name. We investigate the implications when both the LID system and the G2P system generate errors: what influence does this have on a resulting speech recognition system? We experiment with different approaches to LID-based dictionary creation and report on results in four South African languages: Afrikaans, English, Sesotho and isiZulu.}, year = {2017}, journal = {Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Mechatronics International Conference (PRASA-RobMech)}, chapter = {187-192}, address = {Bloemfontein, South Africa}, isbn = { 978-1-5386-2314-5, 978-1-5386-2313-8}, doi = {10.1109/RoboMech.2017.8261145}, }