Automatic Speech Recognition for Low-Resource Sinhala: A Critical Review of Methods, Challenges, and Future Directions
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for low-resource languages remains a major challenge. Sinhala, the primary language of Sri Lanka with about 16 million speakers, illustrates the difficulty: agglutinative morphology, a 54-phoneme inventory, subject-object-verb (SOV) syntax and scarce annotated speech data limit both c...
Chanuka Dinuwan, Sanath Jayasena, Buddhika Karunarathne
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