Towards using CMU sphinx tools for the Holy Quran recitation verification

The use of the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology is being used in 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: El Amrani, Mohamed Yassine, Rahman, M.M. Hafizur, Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza, Shah, Asadullah
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spelling iium-519122016-09-22T08:35:35Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/51912/ Towards using CMU sphinx tools for the Holy Quran recitation verification El Amrani, Mohamed Yassine Rahman, M.M. Hafizur Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza Shah, Asadullah TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering TK7885 Computer engineering The use of the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology is being used in 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 a language model on Holy Quran recitations that are widely available online. The building of the language 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 experiments resulted in Word Error Rates (WER) as low as 1.5% even with a very small set of audio files used during the training phase. UniTECH 2016-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/51912/1/IJASAT_Published.pdf El Amrani, Mohamed Yassine and Rahman, M.M. Hafizur and Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza and Shah, Asadullah (2016) Towards using CMU sphinx tools for the Holy Quran recitation verification. International Journal on Islamic Applications in Computer Science And Technology (IJASAT), 4 (2). pp. 10-15. ISSN 2289-4012 E-ISSN 2289-4012 http://www.sign-ific-ance.co.uk/index.php/IJASAT/article/view/1424
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topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
TK7885 Computer engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
TK7885 Computer engineering
El Amrani, Mohamed Yassine
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 in 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 a language model on Holy Quran recitations that are widely available online. The building of the language 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 experiments resulted in Word Error Rates (WER) as low as 1.5% even with a very small set of audio files used during the training phase.
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author El Amrani, Mohamed Yassine
Rahman, M.M. Hafizur
Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza
Shah, Asadullah
author_facet El Amrani, Mohamed Yassine
Rahman, M.M. Hafizur
Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza
Shah, Asadullah
author_sort El Amrani, Mohamed Yassine
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
publisher UniTECH
publishDate 2016
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/51912/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/51912/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/51912/1/IJASAT_Published.pdf
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