Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia. It belongs to the Semitic language family and is
characterized by a quite homogeneous phonology distinguishing between 234 distinct …

The paper presents the development of a phonetically balanced read speech corpus of code-
mixed Hindi-English. Phonetic balance in the corpus has been created by selecting …

In this work we have explored various possibilities for developing a Large Vocabulary
Speaker Independent Continuous Speech Recognition System for Amharic. Amharic is the …

In this paper we discuss the design, acquisition and preprocessing of a Czech audio-visual
speech corpus. The corpus is intended for training and testing of existing audio-visual …

This paper describes the development of a phonetically balanced Bangla speech corpus.
Construction of speech applications such as text to speech and speech recognition requires …

Sentence selection for speech prompts plays an important role in the process of designing a
speech corpus of read speech, both for speech recognition and speech synthesis. The …

This paper deals with the design of a speech corpus for a corpus-based Text-To-Speech
(TTS) synthesis approach. The purposes are first to provide enough speech to develop …

The UWB_S01 corpus is a read-speech corpus that is intended to be used mainly for
training of Czech continuous speech recognition systems. It has been developed at the …

This paper proposes an efficient algorithm for the automatic selection of sentences given a
desired phoneme distribution. The algorithm is based on the Kullback-Leiblermeasure …

The construction of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is fundamentally
dependent on the speech corpus used to train the acoustic models. The speech corpus …