METHOD OF TRAINING AN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNIZER

Provided is a method of training an automatic speech recognizer, said speech recognizer using acoustic models and/or speech models, wherein speech data is collected during a training phase and used to improve the acoustic models, said method comprising: during the training phase, providing speech utterances that are predefined to a user by means of a game, wherein the game has predefined rules to enable a user to provide certain utterances; and providing the utterances by the user for training the speech recognizer.