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- Presents the development of a comprehensive acoustic database for the Bangla language on the basis of speech technologies
- Includes acoustic data analysis for different parameters of multiple native speakers of both sexes
- Represents a model for researchers and students of linguistics to develop similar databases for the 20+ standard dialects in India
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Signals and Communication Technology (SCT)
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Table of contents (2 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents the consolidated acoustic data for all phones in Standard Colloquial Bengali (SCB), commonly known as Bangla, a Bengali language used by 350 million people in India, Bangladesh, and the Bengali diaspora. The book analyzes the real speech of selected native speakers of the Bangla dialect to ensure that a proper acoustical database is available for the development of speech technologies. The acoustic data presented consists of averages and their normal spread, represented by the standard deviations of necessary acoustic parameters including e.g. formant information for multiple native speakers of both sexes.
The study employs two important speech technologies:(1) text to speech synthesis (TTS) and (2) automatic speech recognition (ASR). The procedures, particularly those related to the use of technologies, are described in sufficient detail to enable researchers to use them to create technical acoustic databases for any other Indian dialect. The book offers aunique resource for scientists and industrial practitioners who are interested in the acoustic analysis and processing of Indian dialects to develop similar dialect databases of their own.
Authors and Affiliations
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Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR), Kolkata, India
Asoke Kumar Datta
About the author
Prof. Asoke Kumar Datta, an MSc. (Pure Math), was born in 1935 and worked in Indian Statistical Institute 1955-1994, retired as HOD Electronics and Communication Sciences Department, Visiting Professor of ISI till date; President, BOM-BOM, Kolkata; Senior Guest Researcher, Sir C V Raman Centre for Physics and Music, JU; Executive Member, Society for Natural Language Technology Research, Kolkata; Life Member, Acoustical Society of India; J C Bose Memorial Award, 1969, Sir C V Raman Award, 1982-83 &1998-99, S K Mitra Memorial Award, 1984, Sri C Achyut Menon Prize, 2001.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Acoustics of Bangla Speech Sounds
Authors: Asoke Kumar Datta
Series Title: Signals and Communication Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4262-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4261-4Published: 07 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5091-7Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4262-1Published: 30 May 2017
Series ISSN: 1860-4862
Series E-ISSN: 1860-4870
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 133
Number of Illustrations: 73 b/w illustrations, 137 illustrations in colour
Topics: Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Acoustics, Computational Linguistics, Pattern Recognition