Building CMU Sphinx language model for the Holy Quran using simplified Arabic phonemes

• Main Authors: El Amrani, Mohamed Yassine, Rahman, M.M. Hafizur, Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza, Shah, Asadullah
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier 2016
• Subjects: TK7800 Electronics. Computer engineering. Computer hardware. Photoelectronic devices
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/53574/1/EIJ_Pub.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/53574/7/53574_building%20CMU%20Sphinx%20language_scopus.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/53574/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110866516300123; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eij.2016.04.002

This paper investigates the use of a simplified set of Arabic phonemes in an Arabic Speech Recognition system applied to Holy Quran. The CMU Sphinx 4 was used to train and evaluate a language model for the Hafs narration of the Holy Quran. The building of the language model was done using a simplifi...