In this paper, we present a Text to Speech (TTS) synthesis system for Bangla language using the open-source Festival TTS engine. Festival is a complete TTS synthesis system, with components supporting front-end processing ...

The wide area of the application of HMM is in Speech Recognition where each spoken word is considered as a single unit to be recognized from the trained word network. Using this concept some research has been done for ...

Research on automatic speech recognition has been approach progressively since 1930 and the major advances are since 1980 with the introduction of the statistical modeling of speech with the key technology Hidden Markov ...

Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagging is a process that attaches each word in a sentence with a suitable tag from a given set of tags. POS Tagging is important in various areas of Natural Language Processing. Different methods of ...

Research on recognizing Bengali script has been started since mid 1980’s. A variety of different techniques have been applied and the performance is examined. In this paper we present a high performance domain specific OCR ...

Now a day, the importance of a large annotated corpus for NLP researchers is widely known. In this paper, we describe an initial phase of developing a linguistically annotated corpus for non-configurational ‘Bangla’ language. ...

Stemming is an operation that splits a word into the constituent root part and affix without doing complete morphological analysis. It is used to improve the performance of spelling checkers and information retrieval ...

We describe some of the challenges in developing English-Bangla parallel corpora, and look some of the established processes used by other language corpora for solutions to some of these challenges.

This paper addresses the issues of Integrating Bangla Computing support for OpenOffice.org office suite and in the process, Identifies and describes the different problems associated with OpenOffice.org and that should ...

This report describes the initial translations of gTLDs and ccTLDs in Bengali, along with the challenges faced in creating the translations.