[Project-ideas] GSOC 2013 - Project : "Add a language model for speech recognition software for Bengali language"

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

Hi Manish,

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:41 PM, manish sharma
<manish09.iitroorkee at gmail.com> wrote:

> My name is Manish Sharma and I am a student of Computer Science Dept. IIT
> Roorkee.
> First of all Congratulations for getting selected in GSOC 2013.
> I have recently gone through the exciting project ideas for GSOC 2013
> (https://github.com/ankur-india/ankur-india/wiki/Project-Ideas).
>
> Add a language model for speech recognition software for Bengali language. I
> found this idea very nice and want to work on it with you guys in gsoc 2013.
>
> Current Open source speech recognition softwares:
>
> 1) CMU Sphinx.
> 2) Julius.
> 3) Simon.
>
> Simon uses Julius and new released Simon 0.4 includes support for CMU
> Sphinx. It uses Voxforge English model as a base model. Currently I am
> looking into this base model.

Nice. We'll wait for you to tinker around a bit more and share your
observations. If you'd prefer to write up a draft plan of action and
solicit feedback, that's fine too. I'd request that you do so on a
Google doc (and, share link off list) so that the other mentors can
take a look.

/sankarshan


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