Title :
Impact of regional Indian accents on spoken Hindi
Author :
Malhotra, Kamini ; Khosla, Aditya
Author_Institution :
Sci. Anal. Group, DRDO, New Delhi, India
Abstract :
Off late research in Language Identification (LID) and Accent Identification (AID) has gained momentum as more and more systems are incorporating language based technologies. Language and Accent go hand in hand as the latter originates due to the former. This paper brings out the impact of native language on accent in regional Indian Languages and also highlights the extent of the effect of native accent of a speaker on utterances spoken in non native languages. In this study the five regional Indian languages (Bengali, Manipuri, Kashmiri, Urdu and Hindi) were studied. LID and AID techniques using spectral features and Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) have been employed. Besides, the results of carrying out Language & Accent Identification tasks, it has been importantly found out that the extent of impact of the three native languages on Hindi was different. Kashmiri affected the accent much more than Bengali or Manipuri.
Keywords :
Gaussian processes; mixture models; natural language processing; speech processing; AID technique; Bengali language; Gaussian mixture models; Hindi language; Kashmiri language; LID technique; Manipuri language; Urdu language; accent identification; language identification; language-based technologies; native language; nonnative languages; regional Indian language accent; speaker native accent; spectral features; spoken Hindi language; utterances; Acoustics; Computational modeling; Feature extraction; Speech; Speech recognition; Testing; Training; Accent Identification; Gaussian Mixture Models; Language Identification; Regional Indian Accents; Spectral Features;
Conference_Titel :
Oriental COCOSDA held jointly with 2013 Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation (O-COCOSDA/CASLRE), 2013 International Conference
Conference_Location :
Gurgaon
DOI :
10.1109/ICSDA.2013.6709876
