Jira: a Central Kurdish speech recognition system, designing and building speech corpus and pronunciation lexicon
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Hadi Veisi , Hawre Hosseini , Mohammad Mohammadamini , Wirya Fathy , Aso Mahmudi
Hadi Veisi , Hawre Hosseini , Mohammad Mohammadamini , Wirya Fathy , Aso Mahmudi
Jira is a large-vocabulary speech recognition system for Central Kurdish (Sorani), developed together with a purpose-designed speech corpus and pronunciation lexicon. The work uses corpus design based on diphone distribution, acoustic modeling, and n-gram language modeling, reporting a word error rate of 13.9% on generic test items.
Central Kurdish (Sorani) speech corpus developed for automatic speech recognition and related speech-processing research. The full corpus reported in the Jira study contains 43.68 hours of speech from …
Veisi, H., Hosseini, H., MohammadAmini, M., Fathy, W., & Mahmudi, A. Jira: a Central Kurdish speech recognition system, designing and building speech corpus and pronunciation lexicon. Language Resources and Evaluation.