Design and development of phonetically rich Urdu speech corpus
Agha Ali Raza, Sarmad Hussain, Huda Sarfraz, Inam Ullah, Zahid Sarfraz · 2009
Phonetically rich speech corpora play a pivotal role in speech research. The significance of such resources becomes crucial in the development of Automatic Speech Recognition systems and Text to Speech systems. This paper presents details of designing and developing an optimal context based phonetically rich speech corpus for Urdu that will serve as a baseline model for training a Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition system for Urdu language.