Novel Techniques for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition

• Main Authors: Elmahdy, Mohamed (Author), Gruhn, Rainer (Author), Minker, Wolfgang (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computational linguistics.; Arabic language.; Electrical engineering.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Arabic.; Computational Linguistics.

Novel Techniques for Dialectal Arabic Speech describes approaches to improve automatic speech recognition for dialectal Arabic. Since speech resources for dialectal Arabic speech recognition are very sparse, the authors describe how existing Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) speech data can be applied to...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamentals
• Speech Corpora
• Phonemic Acoustic Modeling
• Graphemic Acoustic Modeling
• Phonetic Transcription Using the Arabic Chat Alphabet.