Paper Info
Title
Preservation of african cultural heritage by automatic transcription of african languages.
Abstract
Most African countries follow an oral tradition system to transmit their cultural, scientific and historic heritage through generations. This ancestral knowledge accumulated during centuries is today threatened of disappearing. Automatic transcription and indexing tools seem potential solution to preserve it. This paper presents the first steps of automatic speech recognition (ASR) of Djibouti languages in order to index the Djibouti cultural heritage. This work is dedicated to process Somali language, which represents half of the tar- geted Djiboutian audio archives. We describe the principal characteristics of audio (10 hours) and textual (3M words) training corpora collected and the first ASR results of this language. Using the specificities of the Somali language, (words are composed of a concatenation of sub-words called "roots" in this paper), we improve the obtained results. We also discuss future ways of research like roots indexing of audio archives.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
SLTU
index terms— less-equipped languages,corpora,african languages,asr,hybrid language model
Field
DocType
Citations 
Cultural heritage,Languages of Africa,Anthropology,Geography
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abdillahi Nimaan100.34
Pascal Nocera27010.86