Shruti-II: A vernacular speech recognition system in Bengali and an application for visually impaired community

Author

Mandal, Sandipan ; Das, Biswajit ; Mitra, Pabitra

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Kharagpur, India

fYear

2010

fDate

3-4 April 2010

Firstpage

229

Lastpage

233

Abstract

In this paper we introduce the SPHINX3-based Bengali Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) system Shruti-II and an E-mail application based on it. This ASR system converts standard Bengali continuous speech to Bengali Unicode. Due to the limited availability of access to computer, visually impaired community can use speech as an input method for various computer-based application. This paper also demonstrates an application based on Shruti-II which is made for the visually challenged people. Those people can send E-mail by using this system.

Keywords

electronic mail; handicapped aids; natural language processing; speech coding; speech recognition; ASR system; Bengali continuous speech; Bengali language; Bengali unicode; SPHINX3-based Bengali automatic speech recognition system; Shruti-II; e-mail application; vernacular speech recognition system; visually challenged people; visually impaired community; Application software; Automatic speech recognition; Computer science; Dictionaries; Electronic mail; Engines; Hidden Markov models; Human computer interaction; Power system modeling; Speech recognition; Acoustic Model; Bengali Language; CMU Sphinx-3; HMM; Speech recognition; Triphone;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Students' Technology Symposium (TechSym), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Kharagpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5975-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5974-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469156

Filename

5469156