A Review on Speech Corpus Development for Automatic Speech Recognition in Indian Languages

Corpus development gained much attention due to recent statistics based natural language processing. It has new applications in Language Technology, linguistic research, language education and information exchange. Corpus based Language research has an innovative outlook which will discard the aged linguistic theories. Speech corpus is the essential resources for building a speech recognizer. One of the main challenges faced by speech scientist is the unavailability of these resources. Very fewer efforts have been made in Indian languages to make these resources available to public compared to English. In this paper we review the efforts made in Indian languages for developing speech corpus for automatic speech recognition.