Bengali is one of the most spoken languages in the world with over 300 million speakers
globally. Despite its popularity, research into the development of Bengali speech recognition …

While most transliteration research is focused on single tokens such as named entities—for
example, transliteration of from the Gujarati script to the Latin script “Ahmedabad” …

We present OOD-Speech, the first out-of-distribution (OOD) benchmarking dataset for
Bengali automatic speech recognition (ASR). Being one of the most spoken languages …

We introduce Jambu, a cognate database of South Asian languages which unifies dozens of
previous sources in a structured and accessible format. The database includes 287k …

Hindi grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion is mostly trivial, with one exception: whether
a schwa represented in the orthography is pronounced or unpronounced (deleted). Previous …

The concept of a phoneme arose historically as a theoretical abstraction that applies
language-internally. Using phonemes and phonological features in cross-linguistic settings …

The Bengali language, spoken in various regions of south-Asia and also among the Bengali
diaspora, exhibits rich diversity with regional dialects or variations that reflect the cultural …