Automatic Speech Recognition for Hindi

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Main Authors: Saha, Anish, Ramakrishnan, A. G.
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author Saha, Anish
Ramakrishnan, A. G.
author_facet Saha, Anish
Ramakrishnan, A. G.
contents Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a key area in computational linguistics, focusing on developing technologies that enable computers to convert spoken language into text. This field combines linguistics and machine learning. ASR models, which map speech audio to transcripts through supervised learning, require handling real and unrestricted text. Text-to-speech systems directly work with real text, while ASR systems rely on language models trained on large text corpora. High-quality transcribed data is essential for training predictive models. The research involved two main components: developing a web application and designing a web interface for speech recognition. The web application, created with JavaScript and Node.js, manages large volumes of audio files and their transcriptions, facilitating collaborative human correction of ASR transcripts. It operates in real-time using a client-server architecture. The web interface for speech recognition records 16 kHz mono audio from any device running the web app, performs voice activity detection (VAD), and sends the audio to the recognition engine. VAD detects human speech presence, aiding efficient speech processing and reducing unnecessary processing during non-speech intervals, thus saving computation and network bandwidth in VoIP applications. The final phase of the research tested a neural network for accurately aligning the speech signal to hidden Markov model (HMM) states. This included implementing a novel backpropagation method that utilizes prior statistics of node co-activations.
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spellingShingle Automatic Speech Recognition for Hindi
Saha, Anish
Ramakrishnan, A. G.
Computation and Language
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a key area in computational linguistics, focusing on developing technologies that enable computers to convert spoken language into text. This field combines linguistics and machine learning. ASR models, which map speech audio to transcripts through supervised learning, require handling real and unrestricted text. Text-to-speech systems directly work with real text, while ASR systems rely on language models trained on large text corpora. High-quality transcribed data is essential for training predictive models. The research involved two main components: developing a web application and designing a web interface for speech recognition. The web application, created with JavaScript and Node.js, manages large volumes of audio files and their transcriptions, facilitating collaborative human correction of ASR transcripts. It operates in real-time using a client-server architecture. The web interface for speech recognition records 16 kHz mono audio from any device running the web app, performs voice activity detection (VAD), and sends the audio to the recognition engine. VAD detects human speech presence, aiding efficient speech processing and reducing unnecessary processing during non-speech intervals, thus saving computation and network bandwidth in VoIP applications. The final phase of the research tested a neural network for accurately aligning the speech signal to hidden Markov model (HMM) states. This included implementing a novel backpropagation method that utilizes prior statistics of node co-activations.
title Automatic Speech Recognition for Hindi
topic Computation and Language
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18135