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The development of spoken language systems for the tribal languages of India is very beneficial to society. The details of the implementation of automatic speech recognition for Galo language, spoken in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, are presented here. A multi-speaker speech database of continuously spoken Galo sentences was specifically created for this purpose. The speech recognition system was implemented using Kaldi, a public domain software toolkit. The automatic speech recognition system recognizes Galo sentences spoken continuously by new speakers with an accuracy of about 80%.
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Nyodu, K., Vijaya, S. (2020). Automatic Speech Recognition of Galo. In: Mallick, P.K., Meher, P., Majumder, A., Das, S.K. (eds) Electronic Systems and Intelligent Computing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 686. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7031-5_63
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