How can i develop speech recognition android app using Swahili language?

Question

i am working on an android application which has a speech recognition module that works in English using google's offline speech recognition but now i want to add new language (Swahili) which is not on the list of available languages in google's offline speech recognition languages. how can i add Swahili language to it? and use it on my application?

Possible duplicate of [Build NEW Acoustic model, Dictionary , Language model for uncommon language speech recognition](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31050003/build-new-acoustic-model-dictionary-language-model-for-uncommon-language-spee) — Nikolay Shmyrev, Mar 27 '19 at 13:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 10 '16 at 13:26

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without google supported languages you can't get them either in offline or online into voice search.

answered May 10 '16 at 13:26

brahmy adigopula

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is there a way to add new languages? – ben_anteneh May 10 '16 at 18:04

a.t. · Answer 2 · 2020-08-09T11:47:33.570

Interpretation

Since you did not specify the speech recognition you intend to use, should use google speech recognition, nor that it should work off-line, an answer to your question could be:

Solution

You could implement a pre-trained deepspeech model for the swahili language on your android.

Suggestions

Here are people working on implementing deepspeech on android. This contains an explanation on how to train your own deepspeech model. This is an example on how to use a pretrained deepspeech model in general. Here is a list of already pretrained models (I think it currently does not yet contain a Swahili example). This is where you can improve languages, Since the Swahili language is not yet started, you can subscribe here to help train the deepspeech models for that language.

Disclosure

I am not affiliated with the Deepspeech nor Mozilla.

Note

Please feel free to explain a solution you have developed if you implement one, as an additional answer to this question.