Monday, February 23, 2015

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.

Bengali Stemmer in C

Here is a link to the GitHub project containing a functioning Bengali stemmer written in the C programming language.

https://github.com/gdebasis/BengaliStemmer

Thanks to gdebasis for creating this.

You can download the source code from here.