  In this work, we explore a Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) based
end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model for the Myanmar language. A
series of experiments is presented on the topology of the model in which the
convolutional layers are added and dropped, different depths of bidirectional
long short-term memory (BLSTM) layers are used and different label encoding
methods are investigated. The experiments are carried out in low-resource
scenarios using our recorded Myanmar speech corpus of nearly 26 hours. The best
model achieves character error rate (CER) of 4.72% and syllable error rate
(SER) of 12.38% on the test set.
