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Effect of retroflex sounds on the recognition of Hindi voiced and unvoiced stops

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As development of the speech recognition system entirely depends upon the spoken language used for its development, and the very fact that speech technology is highly language dependent and reverse engineering is not possible, there is an utmost need to develop such systems for Indian languages. In this paper we present the implementation of a time delay neural network system (TDNN) in a modular fashion by exploiting the hidden structure of previously phonetic subcategory network for recognition of Hindi consonants. For the present study we have selected all the Hindi phonemes for srecognition. A vocabulary of 207 Hindi words was designed for the task-specific environment and used as a database. For the recognition of phoneme, a three-layered network was constructed and the network was trained using the back propagation learning algorithm. Experiments were conducted to categorize the Hindi voiced, unvoiced stops, semi vowels, vowels, nasals and fricatives. A close observation of confusion matrix of Hindi stops revealed maximum confusion of retroflex stops with their non-retroflex counterparts.

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  1. Department of Training and Technical Education, Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Shakarpur, Near Madhuban, Delhi, 110092, India

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Dev, A. Effect of retroflex sounds on the recognition of Hindi voiced and unvoiced stops. AI & Soc 23, 603–612 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-008-0179-9

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