Deep Neural Network Trained Punjabi Children Speech Recognition System Using Kaldi Toolkit

Despite the number of developed Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for different languages, still no work has been done on children's speech of Punjabi language. Due to the unavailability of children's speech corpus for Punjabi Language, it is a challenging task to collect speech data. In our current work, efforts have been made to collect Punjabi children's speech corpus and build Children ASR system for Indian regional Punjabi language. The recognition rate of ASR systems is observed to be improved drastically by the emergence of Deep Neural Networks (DNN). In our work, the DNN acoustic model has been implemented by varying number of hidden layers. Approximately four hours of Punjabi children's speech corpus has been collected and several experiments have been performed using the DNN modeling technique. Experimental results have revealed that the system has attained 87% accuracy.