Cross-word Arabic pronunciation variation modeling for speech recognition

Authors:
Dia Abuzeina;Wasfi Al-Khatib;Moustafa Elshafei;Husni Al-Muhtaseb
Affiliations:
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia;King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia;King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia;King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Venue:
International Journal of Speech Technology
Year:
2011

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Abstract

One of the problems in the speech recognition of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the cross-word pronunciation variation. Cross-word pronunciation variations alter the phonetic spelling of words beyond their listed forms in the phonetic dictionary, leading to a number of Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) wordforms. This paper presents a knowledge-based approach to model cross-word pronunciation variation at both phonetic dictionary and language model levels. The proposed approach is based on modeling cross-word pronunciation variation by expanding the phonetic dictionary and corpus transcription. The Baseline system contains a phonetic dictionary of 14,234 words from a 5.4 hours corpus of Arabic broadcast news. The expanded dictionary contains 15,873 words. Also, the corpus transcription is expanded according to the applied Arabic phonological rules. Using Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Sphinx speech recognition engine, the Enhanced system achieved Word Error Rate (WER) of 9.91% on a test set of fully discretized transcription of about 1.1 hours of Arabic broadcast news. The WER is enhanced by 2.3% compared to the Baseline system.