Papers by Agha Ali Raza
PronouncUR: An Urdu Pronunciation Lexicon Generator (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | acoustic modeling, large text data and a pronunciation lexicon are the bottlenecks for speech recognition systems for resource scarce languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion tool that generates a pronunciation lexicon from a list of Urdu words. |
| Outcome: | The proposed tool predicts pronunciation of words using a LSTM-based model trained on a handcrafted expert lexicon of around 39,000 words and shows an accuracy of 64% upon internal evaluation. |