Nepali Speech Recognition

Autors: Chetan Prajapati, Jiwan Nyoupane, Jwalanta Deep Shrestha, Shishir Jha.
Publisher: Stuttgart
Date: 2008
Pages: 90First of all, our sincere thanks go to the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering for providing the opportunity to do this project. Research in Speech Recognition is a eld which needs continuous e ort with in-depth research and we are indebted to our project supervisors Assistant Professors Shri Daya Sagar Baral and Shri Jeevan Kumar Pant for the interest in the project and their invaluable suggestion and ideas. Similarly we are also thankful to our Project Coordinator Assistant Professor Shri Rajendra Lal Rajbhandari for assisting and guiding us in our project. We would like to thank our colleagues as well as teachers who have been providing encouragement and helping us with valuable comments throughout this project.Ever since the PCs started appearing in the market where it was a ordable to general mass, humans have used it numerous application. PC or Personal Computer has in some way revolutionized how people do their work, because, the computers now are not only available to few elites how had the money to buy the bigger expensive pre-PC computer but also to average people. PCs not only have helped its users by reducing the their work load but also
have helped them in many di erent aspects by providing them facilities like gaming, Internet sur ng, and lot more. These aspect of computer has helped PC makers to encourage even the children to use computers. Personal computers and technology associated with it has never looked back ever since it started in late 1980s. From its early days, when it was used for spreadsheet applications, word processing, designing and other monotonous jobs, computers have come a long way. Today, it has enough power to handle multiple programs simultaneously making it possible for general mass to enjoy high end applications in their home. Due to this computers have penetrated in many di erent areas as an primary tool for computing. This has
caused huge amount of reliance of a large population of humans on computer for their day to day work. But still with all that has happened all around the world, in Nepal, more than 80% of population is untouched by any form of computer access. Even though many projects are being developed by the government there has not been considerable advancement in getting the rural population to use the computer. One of the major hindrance that the government is facing in deploying the computers to the rural areas is the literacy rate of our country. With an average literacy rate of less than 45% in Nepal, many targeted users lack basic knowledge required to operate a computer, creating a problem in using the computer through traditional method. Hence, an alternative way of computing is necessary so that this group of people along with the normal users can have a better way of utilizing the computer.