Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, Volume 21

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2020F119

Citation: Proceedings of the 2020 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, M. Paprzycki (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 21, pages 185–188 (2020)

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Abstract. I present a way to leverage the stenographed recordings of the Czech parliament meetings for purposes of training a speech-to-text system. The article presents a method for scraping the data, acquiring word-level alignment and selecting reliable parts of the imprecise transcript. Finally, I present an ASR system trained on these and other data.

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