“…A number of research results have already been published, e.g. in language identification [8], multilingual recognition [2,3], speaker verification [16] and general acoustic-phonetic modelling and adaptation for different environments and tasks [4,5,9,10,11,12,14,15]. Apart from this, the SpeechDat databases also represent a valuable collection of dialects and speakers for corpus-based linguistic and phonetic studies [1,6,7,13].…”