A bilingual speech recognition system for English and Tamil

• Main Authors: Foo, Say Wei, Kumar, Santosh C.
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electronic systems
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90925; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/4632
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper describes the details of a bilingual speech recognition system, AmritaRec, developed for English and Tamil. The performance results of the system is compared with that of a monolingual English speech recognition system adapted to Tamil using cross language transfer and cross language adaptation techniques.