Towards using CMU Sphinx Tools for the Holy Quran recitation verification

The use of the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology is being used is many different applications that help simplify the interaction with a wider range of devices. This paper investigates the use of a simplified set of phonemes in an ASR system applied to Holy Quran. The Carnegie Mellon Univ...

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Main Authors: Amrani, Mohamed Y. El, Rahman, M.M. Hafizur, Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza, Shah, Asadullah
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Published: 2015
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spelling iium-452602015-10-26T06:25:36Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/45260/ Towards using CMU Sphinx Tools for the Holy Quran recitation verification Amrani, Mohamed Y. El Rahman, M.M. Hafizur Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza Shah, Asadullah TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering The use of the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology is being used is many different applications that help simplify the interaction with a wider range of devices. This paper investigates the use of a simplified set of phonemes in an ASR system applied to Holy Quran. The Carnegie Mellon University Sphinx 4 tools were used to train and evaluate an acoustic model on Holy Quran recitations that are widely available online. The building of the acoustic model was done using a simplified list of phonemes instead of the mainly used Romanized in order to simplify the process of training the acoustic model. In this paper, the experiment resulted in Word Error Rates (WER) as low as 1.5% even with a very small set of audio files to use in the training phase. 2015-10-01 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45260/1/Towards_Using_CMU_Sphinx_Tools_for_the_Holy_Quran_Recitation_Verification-1.pdf Amrani, Mohamed Y. El and Rahman, M.M. Hafizur and Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza and Shah, Asadullah (2015) Towards using CMU Sphinx Tools for the Holy Quran recitation verification. In: 3rd International Conference on Islamic Applications in Computer Science and Technologies (IMAN 2015), Oct. 01-03, 2015, Konya, Turkey. (In Press)
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topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Amrani, Mohamed Y. El
Rahman, M.M. Hafizur
Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza
Shah, Asadullah
Towards using CMU Sphinx Tools for the Holy Quran recitation verification
description The use of the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology is being used is many different applications that help simplify the interaction with a wider range of devices. This paper investigates the use of a simplified set of phonemes in an ASR system applied to Holy Quran. The Carnegie Mellon University Sphinx 4 tools were used to train and evaluate an acoustic model on Holy Quran recitations that are widely available online. The building of the acoustic model was done using a simplified list of phonemes instead of the mainly used Romanized in order to simplify the process of training the acoustic model. In this paper, the experiment resulted in Word Error Rates (WER) as low as 1.5% even with a very small set of audio files to use in the training phase.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Amrani, Mohamed Y. El
Rahman, M.M. Hafizur
Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza
Shah, Asadullah
author_facet Amrani, Mohamed Y. El
Rahman, M.M. Hafizur
Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza
Shah, Asadullah
author_sort Amrani, Mohamed Y. El
title Towards using CMU Sphinx Tools for the Holy Quran recitation verification
title_short Towards using CMU Sphinx Tools for the Holy Quran recitation verification
title_full Towards using CMU Sphinx Tools for the Holy Quran recitation verification
title_fullStr Towards using CMU Sphinx Tools for the Holy Quran recitation verification
title_full_unstemmed Towards using CMU Sphinx Tools for the Holy Quran recitation verification
title_sort towards using cmu sphinx tools for the holy quran recitation verification
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/45260/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/45260/1/Towards_Using_CMU_Sphinx_Tools_for_the_Holy_Quran_Recitation_Verification-1.pdf
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