Shruti-II: A vernacular speech recognition system in Bengali and an application for visually impaired community

In this paper we introduce the SPHINX3-based Bengali Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) system Shruti-II and an E-mail application based on it. This ASR system converts standard Bengali continuous speech to Bengali Unicode. Due to the limited availability of access to computer, visually impaired community can use speech as an input method for various computer-based application. This paper also demonstrates an application based on Shruti-II which is made for the visually challenged people. Those people can send E-mail by using this system.