Bengali Text Corpus

• FIRE (Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation) Corpus for Bengali
• TDIL Corpus from Linguistic Research Unit - Indian Statistical Institute

Bengali Speech Corupus

• SHRUTI Speech Corpus
• IARPA Babel Speech Corpus

Bengali Character Code Table - Unicode 9.0

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0980.pdf

Bengali Handwritten Article Dataset

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Bengali Speech-to-Text Conversion using SAPI

Here's a paper on Bengali Speech to Text using the Microsoft Speech API.

http://www.kuet.ac.bd/webportal/ppmv2/uploads/1364352225C31-ICCCE%202012-Bangla%20Speech2Text-pp385-390.pdf

Kathak (bangla text to speech synthesis)

Kathak is a Bangla text to speech synthesizer which can produce the speech from unicode bangla text input. We are developing the system based on Festvox framework.The Festival Speech Synthesis System was used as a base for developing Kathak.

Here's a link to project on SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kathak/

A Light Weight Stemmer for Bengali and Its Use in Spelling Checker

A paper on a Bengali stemming algorithm.

http://www.hucompute.org/data/pdf/A_Light_Weight_Stemmer_for_Bengali_and_Its_Use_in_Spelling_Checker.pdf

Thanks to Md. Zahurul Islam, Md. Nizam Uddin and Mumit Khan and BRAC University for their work.