Automatic Speech Recognition and Translation for Low Resource Languages

Acknowledgement

We bow our head before “The God Almighty” who blessed us with health and confidence to undertake and complete the book successfully. We express our sincere thanks to the Principal and Management of PSG College of Technology, University of Galway, Ireland, University of Hildesheim, Germany for their constant encouragement and support.

We thank our family and friends who always stood beside us and encouraged us to complete the book.

Dr. L. Ashok Kumar is thankful to his wife, Y. Uma Maheswari, for her constant support during writing. He is also grateful to his daughter, A. K. Sangamithra, for her support; it helped him a lot in completing this work.

Dr. D. Karthika Renuka would like to express gratitude to her parents, for their constant support. Her heartfelt thanks to her husband, Mr. R. Sathish Kumar, and her dear daughter, Ms. P. S. Preethi, for their unconditional love which made her capable of achieving all her goals.

Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi would like to thank his students.

Dr. Thomas Mandl would like to thank his parents and family as well as all his academic colleagues for their inspiration during cooperation.

We would like to acknowledge the help of all the people involved in this project. First, we would like to thank each one of the authors for their contributions. Our sincere gratitude goes to the chapter’s authors who contributed their time and expertise to this book. We thank all the authors of the chapters for their commitment to this endeavor ...