@InProceedings{Gebremedhin2011_23,
<br/>   author = {Yitagessu Birhanu Gebremedhin and Rüdiger Hoffmann},
<br/>   booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2011.},
<br/>   title = {Development of automatic Amharic speech recognizer},
<br/>   year = {2011},
<br/>   editor = {Bernd J. Kröger and Peter Birkholz},
<br/>   month = mar,
<br/>   pages = {118--122},
<br/>   publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
<br/>   abstract  = {Amharic is one of the least researched languages in the world.
Particularly, speech and language technologies for this language are almost nonexistent.
Off the rack speech corpuses, lexical models and language models are
not available and this makes the task of building automatic Amharic speech
recognizers very challenging. We present initial results in the development of
Amharic speech recognizer. The most important components of the speech
recognizer; namely the speech corpus, the lexical model and the language model
are developed from scratch. The Amharic speech corpus was collected from
people of different age range and gender in such a way that it has all the
syllables in an approximately reasonable proportion. A lexical model consisting
of hundreds of thousands of words and a Finite-State-Automata based language
model are also prepared. The speech recognizer is being developed using the
UASR (Unified Approach to Speech Synthesis and Recognition) toolkit of TU
Dresden and when it is ready we will integrate it with other modules for further
research work, particularly in the development of Amharic speech to Ethiopian
Sign Language (ESL) converter.},
<br/>   isbn = {978-3-942710-37-4},
<br/>   issn = {0940-6832},
<br/>   keywords = {Poster zu verschiedenen Themenbereichen},
<br/>   url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2011_118_122.pdf},
<br/>}