Abstract
The SpeechDat-Car project included in the 4 th framework of the European Community's Language Engineering Programme, started in April 1998 with a duration of 30 months. It is a common initiative of car manufacturers, telephone communications operators, companies active in voice operated services and Universities that aims at collecting a set of speech databases in nine different languages to support training and testing of robust multilingual speech recognition for in-car applications.
This paper describes the database requirements, the background of the project, the design and validation of the databases, the definition of recording platforms, and main goals from the automotive exploitation point of view.