Speech processing technology of Uyghur language

In recent years, there have been a significant number of activities in the area of Uyghur speech processing. This paper summarized the major tasks and key technologies in Uyghur speech processing, which including the speech database, continuous speech recognition and speech synthesis. Uyghur language is one of the least studied languages on speech processing area. For this reason, in our work, the first step was collecting large amount continuous speech data of Uyghur language. In Uyghur continuous speech recognition, we were building the HMM state models for each recognition unit, and were using the recognizer of HTK3.3 (HMM ToolKit) and the MS Visual C++8.0 developing the basic Uyghur Continuous Speech Recognition System. In Uyghur speech synthesis, we were designing and developing an intelligible and natural sounding corpus-based speech synthesis system.