Martijn Bentum, Louis ten Bosch, Henk van den Heuvel, Simone Wills, Domenique van der Niet, Jelske Dijkstra, Hans Van de Velde
| Challenge: | During council meetings both Frisian and Dutch are spoken, and code switching between both languages shows up frequently. |
| Approach: | They develop a bilingual Frisian/Dutch speech recognizer for council meetings in Fryslân (the Netherlands) based on an existing Frisian and Dutch speech recognized by FAME!, which was trained and tested on radio broadcasts. |
| Outcome: | The new recognizer is based on an existing speech recognizer for Frisian and Dutch named FAME!, which was trained and tested on radio broadcasts. |
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