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Multitask adaptation with Lattice-Free MMI for multi-genre speech recognition of low resource languages
In this paper, we develop Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for multi-genre speech recognition of low-resource languages where training data is predominantly conversational speech but test data can be in one of the following genres: news broadcast ...
ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2021Explainable Phonology-based Approach for Sign Language Recognition and Assessment
Sign language technology, unlike spoken language technology, is an emerging area of research. Sign language technologies can help in bridging the gap between the Deaf community and the hearing community. One such computer-aided technology is sign language ...
EPFL2021Lightweight Cross-Lingual Sentence Representation Learning
Martin Jaggi, Prakhar Gupta, Zhuoyuan Mao
Large-scale models for learning fixed-dimensional cross-lingual sentence representations like LASER (Artetxe and Schwenk, 2019b) lead to significant improvement in performance on downstream tasks. However, further increases and modifications based on such ...
ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2021Multilingual and Unsupervised Subword Modeling for Zero-Resource Languages
Subword modeling for zero-resource languages aims to learn low-level representations of speech audio without using transcriptions or other resources from the target language (such as text corpora or pronunciation dictionaries). A good representation should ...
2020Neural Network Based End-to-End Query by Example Spoken Term Detection
This article focuses on the problem of query by example spoken term detection (QbE-STD) in zero-resource scenario. State-of-the-art approaches primarily rely on dynamic time warping (DTW) based template matching techniques using phone posterior or bottlene ...
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020Language Independent Query by Example Spoken Term Detection
Language independent query-by-example spoken term detection (QbE-STD) is the problem of retrieving audio documents from an archive, which contain a spoken query provided by a user. This is usually casted as a hypothesis testing and pattern matching problem ...
EPFL2019Cross-lingual Adaptation of a CTC-based multilingual Acoustic Model
Hervé Bourlard, Philip Neil Garner, Sibo Tong
Multilingual models for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) are attractive as they have been shown to benefit from more training data, and better lend themselves to adaptation to under-resourced languages. However, initialisation from monolingual context-de ...
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018Fast Language Adaptation Using Phonological Information
Hervé Bourlard, Philip Neil Garner, Sibo Tong
Phoneme-based multilingual connectionist temporal classification (CTC) model is easily extensible to a new language by concatenating parameters of the new phonemes to the output layer. In the present paper, we improve cross-lingual adaptation in the contex ...
ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2018Building the Moroccan Darija WordNet (MDW) using Bilingual Resources
Moroccan Darija is one of the Arabic dialects, a continuum of under-resourced vernaculars. We develop a Moroccan Darija Wordnet (MDW) using a bilingual Moroccan-English dictionary, from which we collect nearly 13,000 definitions and over 15,000 lemmas. A M ...
2017Cross-lingual Transfer for News Article Labeling: Benchmarking Statistical and Neural Models
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Nikolaos Pappas, Khalil Mrini
Cross-lingual transfer has been shown to increase the performance of a text classification model thanks to the use of Multilingual Hierarchical Attention Networks (MHAN), on which this work is based. Firstly, we compared the performance of monolingual and ...
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