Abstract
The performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is directly proportional to the quality of the corpus used and the training data quantity. Data scarcity and more children’s speech variability degrades the performance of ASR systems. As Punjabi is a tonal language and low resource language, less data is available for Punjabi children’s speech. It leads to poor ASR performance for Punjabi children speech recognition. To overcome limited data conditions, in this paper, two corpora of different domains are evaluated for testing the feasibility of ASR performance. We have implemented Tacotron as an artificial speech synthesis system for Punjabi Language. The speech audios synthesized by Tacotron are merged with available speech corpus and tested on Punjabi children ASR using Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) + pitch feature extraction, and Deep Neural Network (DNN) acoustic modeling. It is noticed that the merged data corpus has shown reduced Word Error Rate (WER) of the ASR system with a Relative Improvement (RI) of 9-12%.
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