Thai spelling analysis for automatic spelling speech recognition |
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Authors: | Chutima Pisarn Thanaruk Theeramunkong |
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Affiliation: | a Faculty of Technology and Environment, Prince of Songkla University, 80 Moo 1 Vichitsongkram Road, Kathu, Phuket 83120, Thailand b Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, 131 Moo 5 Tiwanont Road, Bangkadi, Muang, Pathumthani 12000, Thailand |
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Abstract: | Spelling speech recognition can be applied for several purposes including enhancement of speech recognition systems and implementation of name retrieval systems. This paper presents a Thai spelling analysis to develop a Thai spelling speech recognizer. The Thai phonetic characteristics, alphabet system and spelling methods have been analyzed. As a training resource, two alternative corpora, a small spelling speech corpus and an existing large continuous speech corpus, are used to train hidden Markov models (HMMs). Then their recognition results are compared to each other. To solve the problem of utterance speed difference between spelling utterances and continuous speech utterances, the adjustment of utterance speed has been taken into account. Two alternative language models, bigram and trigram, are used for investigating performance of spelling speech recognition. Our approach achieves up to 98.0% letter correction rate, 97.9% letter accuracy and 82.8% utterance correction rate when the language model is trained based on trigram and the acoustic model is trained from the small spelling speech corpus with eight Gaussian mixtures. |
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Keywords: | Spelling analysis Spelling speech recognition Automatic speech recognition Hidden Markov model |
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