THUYG-20: A free Uyghur speech database

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Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology) ›› 2017, Vol. 57 ›› Issue (2) : 182-187. DOI: 10.16511/j.cnki.qhdxxb.2017.22.012

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THUYG-20: A free Uyghur speech database

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Speech data plays a fundamental role in research on speech recognition. However, there are few open speech databases available for researchers in China, especially for minor languages such as Uyghur. This paper develops a Uyghur continuous speech database which is totally open and free. The database consists of 20 h of training speech and 1 h of test speech, as well as all the resources needed to construct a full Uyghur speech recognition system, including a phone set, lexicon, and text data. A recipe used to construct the baseline system is also described with results for two test sets involving clean speech and noisy speech. This paper provides a standard database for Uyghur speech recognition.

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speech recognition / Uyghur language / corpus / deep neural network (DNN)

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Aisikaer Rouzi, YIN Shi, ZHANG Zhiyong, WANG Dong, Askar Hamdulla, ZHENG Fang. THUYG-20: A free Uyghur speech database[J]. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology). 2017, 57(2): 182-187 https://doi.org/10.16511/j.cnki.qhdxxb.2017.22.012

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