Speech Technology and Corpus Development in Thailand

This paper describes some recent activities on speech technology and corpus development in Thailand. Many speech corpus projects have been launched this year. The National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) recently provides a grant for two cooperative speech corpus projects to interested universities. The first project aims at developing a Thai speech corpus for the research on speaker-independent, large vocabulary, continuous speech recognition. The second project is to collect continuous speech of telephone number recorded through telephone line. Except for these projects, some NECTEC’s internal corpus projects such as the corpus for speech synthesis development and the speech corpus for ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories are also under development. Besides the corpus development projects, many speech-technology researches are also discussed.