Improving Speech-to-Text recognition for Malaysian english accents using accent identification

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is the technology that helps user to use their voice as a form of input and it is used in many areas such as mobile devices, embedded systems, and other industrial areas. However, performance and accuracy of the speech recognition system is heavily influenced by th...

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Main Author: Len, Shu Yuan
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2022
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Online Access:http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4657/
http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4657/1/fyp_CS_2022_LSY.pdf
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description Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is the technology that helps user to use their voice as a form of input and it is used in many areas such as mobile devices, embedded systems, and other industrial areas. However, performance and accuracy of the speech recognition system is heavily influenced by the non-native accents, for example, Malaysian English. In this project, the Accent Identification (AID) techniques will be implemented to improve the performance of the ASR systems in recognizing Malaysian English accents. Kaldi toolkits is used in developing proposed ASR models (GMM-HMM and DNN-HMM). CNN based AID is implemented using Python language. The datasets used in this project are from Mini Librispeech, Speech Accent Achieve and other Malaysian English speakers. Then, CNN based AID will be developed and the results is investigated and compared. The Word Error rate is selected as the evaluation metric to compare the recognition performance and accuracy.
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spelling utar-46572023-01-15T13:27:08Z Improving Speech-to-Text recognition for Malaysian english accents using accent identification Len, Shu Yuan Q Science (General) T Technology (General) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is the technology that helps user to use their voice as a form of input and it is used in many areas such as mobile devices, embedded systems, and other industrial areas. However, performance and accuracy of the speech recognition system is heavily influenced by the non-native accents, for example, Malaysian English. In this project, the Accent Identification (AID) techniques will be implemented to improve the performance of the ASR systems in recognizing Malaysian English accents. Kaldi toolkits is used in developing proposed ASR models (GMM-HMM and DNN-HMM). CNN based AID is implemented using Python language. The datasets used in this project are from Mini Librispeech, Speech Accent Achieve and other Malaysian English speakers. Then, CNN based AID will be developed and the results is investigated and compared. The Word Error rate is selected as the evaluation metric to compare the recognition performance and accuracy. 2022-04-22 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4657/1/fyp_CS_2022_LSY.pdf Len, Shu Yuan (2022) Improving Speech-to-Text recognition for Malaysian english accents using accent identification. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4657/
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Improving Speech-to-Text recognition for Malaysian english accents using accent identification
title Improving Speech-to-Text recognition for Malaysian english accents using accent identification
title_full Improving Speech-to-Text recognition for Malaysian english accents using accent identification
title_fullStr Improving Speech-to-Text recognition for Malaysian english accents using accent identification
title_full_unstemmed Improving Speech-to-Text recognition for Malaysian english accents using accent identification
title_short Improving Speech-to-Text recognition for Malaysian english accents using accent identification
title_sort improving speech-to-text recognition for malaysian english accents using accent identification
topic Q Science (General)
T Technology (General)
url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4657/
http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4657/1/fyp_CS_2022_LSY.pdf