Abstract Although Modern Standard Arabic is taught in schools and used in written
communication and TV/radio broadcasts, all informal communication is typically carried out …

This paper presents our strategies for developing an automatic speech recognition system
for Iban, an under-resourced language. We faced several challenges such as no …

Abstract A Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) convertor generates the pronunciation given a
word. G2P is an important module in a speech synthesis system and an automatic speech …

Languages in Malaysia are dying in an alarming rate. As of today, 15 languages are in
danger while two languages are extinct. One of the methods to save languages is by …

Abstract Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) describes the ability of a computer to capture,
identify and recognize the variety of human speech. It has been applied in many …

This thesis describes research on building a text-to-speech (TTS) framework that can
accommodate the lack of linguistic information of under-resource languages by using …

ABSTRACT A pronunciation dictionary (PD) is one of the components in an Automatic
Speech Recognition (ASR) system, a system that is used to convert speech to text. The …

This paper describes our work on automatic speech recognition system (ASR) for an under-
resourced language, namely the Iban language, which is spoken in Sarawak, a Malaysian …

Cet article décrit notre collecte de ressources pour la langue iban (parlée notamment sur l'île
de Bornéo), dans l'objectif de construire un système de reconnaissance automatique de la …

This paper describes our experiments and results on using a local dominant language in
Malaysia (Malay), to bootstrap automatic speech recognition (ASR) for a very under …