Bengali language support

[Khaled Mahmood]

Hi all,

I want to make Pocket Sphinx recognize command given in Bengali
language. I have read http://
cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/tutorial. From here I have understand that I can adapt existing accoustic
model to recognize Bengali.

But while building a dictionary is there any way to differentiate ত / t̪, থ /
t̪ʰ and ট / t. If I use ট / t for all the ত / t̪, থ / t̪ʰ and ট / t then I
shall loose a great amount of accuracy on recognition.

For your kind information I am trying to build a command and control app using
Pocket Sphinx for iPhone that may recognize Bengali command.

Thanks in adavce

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

But while building a dictionary is there any way to differentiate ত / t̪, থ
/ t̪ʰ and ট / t. If I use ট / t for all the ত / t̪, থ / t̪ʰ and ট / t then I
shall loose a great amount of accuracy on recognition.

You can use arbitrary phone names which can differentiate various IPA symbols
in your dictionary, for example

ত ta
থ tb
ট tc

[Firoj Alam]

The way nshmyrev suggested it works for Bangla. Actually one of my colleague
at BRAC University, Dhaka developed a system which works well. you can go in
that way...

Firoj

[Khaled Mahmood]

Thank you all for your kind reply

I shall try and will give feedback.