... AN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR T! IE ITALIAN LANGUAGE Paolo D'Orta, Marco Ferretti, Alessandro Martelli, ... Rome Scientific Center via Giorgione 159, ROME (Italy) ABSTRACT 4. An automatic speech recognition system for Italian language has been developed at IBM Italy Scientific Center in Rome. It ... words from a dictionary of 6500 items, dictated by a speaker with short pauses among them. The system is speaker dependent, before using it the speaker has to perform the training stage reading...