%D 2022 %V 22 %L uninimx653 %R doi:10.3390/s22082881 %X For analytical approach-based word recognition techniques, the task of segmenting the word into individual characters is a big challenge, specifically for cursive handwriting. For this, a holistic approach can be a better option, wherein the entire word is passed to an appropriate recognizer. Gurumukhi script is a complex script for which a holistic approach can be proposed for offline handwritten word recognition. In this paper, the authors propose a Convolutional Neural Network-based architecture for recognition of the Gurumukhi month names. The architecture is designed with five convolutional layers and three pooling layers. The authors also prepared a dataset of 24,000 images, each with a size of 50 × 50. The dataset was collected from 500 distinct writers of different age groups and professions. The proposed method achieved training and validation accuracies of about 97.03% and 99.50%, respectively for the proposed dataset. %P 2881 %K Gurumukhi script; word recognition; convolutional neural network; performance analysis %J Sensors %A Tajinder Pal Singh %A Sheifali Gupta %A Meenu Garg %A Deepali Gupta %A Abdullah Alharbi %A Hashem Alyami %A Divya Anand %A Arturo Ortega-Mansilla %A Nitin Goyal %T Visualization of Customized Convolutional Neural Network for Natural Language Recognition %N 8