PORTUGUESE (Portugal)

Existing databases and their actors

• Fundamental research: EUROM-1 (CEC)
• Application-oriented: SUNSTAR (Portuguese accent for English words)

Ongoing projects & new initiatives

Portugal is represented in some European current initiatives such as ONOMASTICA, RELATOR, ELSNET, SPEECHDAT and COST.

Conclusion

• Situation
  The Portuguese speech community is relatively small, and its main actors have been so far Universities and academic research institutions. There is very limited funding for basic research in this area. Telecom companies have only very recently shown some interest in speech technology. There are extremely few databases for European Portuguese, although EUROM-1 will soon be made available as basic material.
• Needs

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  fundamental research (namely in terms of corpora with phonetic and prosodic labelling)

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  telephone databases (SPEECHDAT)

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  application-specific corpora

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  advanced corpora (dictation, dialogue)