This paper discusses the formulation, development and analysis of a segment-based
approach to the automatic language identification (LID) problem. This system utilizes
phonotactic, acoustic-phonetic, and prosodic information within a unified probabilistic
framework. The implementation of this framework allows the relative contributions of different
sources of information to be determined empirically, as well as providing the mechanism for
combining them within one system. The system has been evaluated using the Oregon …