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Dynamic Construction of Telugu Speech Corpus for Voice Enabled Text Editor
Kota VN Sunitha, A.Sharada
Pages - 83 - 95     |    Revised - 15-11-2012     |    Published - 31-12-2012
Volume - 3   Issue - 4    |    Publication Date - December 2012  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
Speech Corpus, Suggestion List, Text Editor, Signal Comparator, Incremental Growth
ABSTRACT
In recent decades speech interactive systems have gained increasing importance. Performance of an ASR system mainly depends on the availability of large corpus of speech. The conventional method of building a large vocabulary speech recognizer for any language uses a top-down approach to speech. This approach requires large speech corpus with sentence or phoneme level transcription of the speech utterances. The transcriptions must also include different speech order so that the recognizer can build models for all the sounds present. But, for Telugu language, because of its complex nature, a very large, well annotated speech database is very difficult to build. It is very difficult, if not impossible, to cover all the words of any Indian language, where each word may have thousands and millions of word forms. A significant part of grammar that is handled by syntax in English (and other similar languages) is handled within morphology in Telugu. Phrases including several words (that is, tokens) in English would be mapped on to a single word in Telugu.Telugu language is phonetic in nature in addition to rich in morphology. That is why the speech technology developed for English cannot be applied to Telugu language. This paper highlights the work carried out in an attempt to build a voice enabled text editor with capability of automatic term suggestion. Main claim of the paper is the recognition enhancement process developed by us for suitability of highly inflecting, rich morphological languages. This method results in increased speech recognition accuracy with very much reduction in corpus size. It also adapts Telugu words to the database dynamically, resulting in growth of the corpus.
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Dr. Kota VN Sunitha
GNITS - India
k.v.n.sunitha@gmail.com
Dr. A.Sharada
- India


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