**Goal Of The Competition**

The prime goal of this competition is to come up with a solution system to transcribe Bengali speech with various regional dialects following the orthography set by linguists. The speech corpus for this competition has been developed by Bengali.AI from one of their ongoing large-scale research projects. The corpus consists of spontaneous speech on everyday topics from **373 individuals** with various regional dialects from **ten** different geographical locations such as **Rangpur, Kishoreganj, Narail, Chittagong, Narsingdi, Tangail, Barishal, Habiganj, Sylhet & Sandwip.**  The cumulative length of this entire speech corpus is over **79+ hours**. Your efforts could improve the Bengali speech recognition technology using this unique speech recognition dataset for the very first time in history which is dealing with the regional speech domain. In addition, your submission will be among the first open-source speech recognition methods for Bengali.

**Footnote:** This dataset is the subset version of the dataset from an ongoing research project conducted by Bengali.AI which BRAC University is currently funding.

##Sponsors

**Brainstation 23**
BrainStation23, a globally leading one of the best software development company in Bangladesh. It helps to transform your business into the digital sphere.

**APSIS**
It is a company where professionals from both technical and functional fields group together with an objective of providing fit-for-purpose business solutions. It realizes the importance of functional knowledge and its impact in developing business solutions. We constantly strive to be a leading technology firm with profound business and functional knowledge.

Both companies, being strong advocates for open-sourced research, have been generous enough to sponsor the different aspects of this competition. 

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##Powered by

**Bengali.AI**
Bengali.AI is a community that works to create  Bangla AI language technologies & open-source datasets for research. 

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**BRAC University**
BRAC University is currently funding this research named "Cross-domain 10k hour Bengali Speech Corpus for state-of-the-art Bengali Speech Recognition, Diarization and Synthesis" under the "Brac University Research Seed Grant Initiative (RSGI)" research grant.

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