Important prosody characteristics for spontaneous speech recognition

For languages, especially for Czech language featured by a free-word-ordering, the prosody serves a critical information for the recognition and understanding system. For some sentences the speaker´s style is essential to determine the core of the communication, depending on a speaker who thus emphasises a meaning of the sentence. This paper describes the first results of speaker´s style determination. The experiments show that the speech recognition quality is increased by the style determination by using prosody characteristics.