Automatic Speech Recognition for Irish: the ABAIR-ÉIST System

no code implementations • CLTW (LREC) 2022 • Liam Lonergan, Mengjie Qian, Harald Berthelsen, Andy Murphy, Christoph Wendler, Neasa Ní Chiaráin, Christer Gobl, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide

This paper describes ÉIST, automatic speech recogniser for Irish, developed as part of the ongoing ABAIR initiative, combining (1) acoustic models, (2) pronunciation lexicons and (3) language models into a hybrid system.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

AAC don Ghaeilge: the Prototype Development of Speech-Generating Assistive Technology for Irish

no code implementations • CLTW (LREC) 2022 • Emily Barnes, Oisín Morrin, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide, Julia Cummins, Harald Berthelsen, Andy Murphy, Muireann Nic Corcráin, Claire O’Neill, Christer Gobl, Neasa Ní Chiaráin

This paper describes the prototype development of an Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) system for the Irish language.

Towards spoken dialect identification of Irish

no code implementations • 14 Jul 2023 • Liam Lonergan, Mengjie Qian, Neasa Ní Chiaráin, Christer Gobl, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide

Motivated by this, the present experiments investigate spoken dialect identification of Irish, with a view to incorporating such a system into the speech recognition pipeline.

Dialect Identification speech-recognition +1

Towards dialect-inclusive recognition in a low-resource language: are balanced corpora the answer?

no code implementations • 14 Jul 2023 • Liam Lonergan, Mengjie Qian, Neasa Ní Chiaráin, Christer Gobl, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide

ASR systems are generally built for the spoken 'standard', and their performance declines for non-standard dialects/varieties.

Data-driven Detection and Analysis of the Patterns of Creaky Voice

no code implementations • 31 May 2020 • Thomas Drugman, John Kane, Christer Gobl

This paper investigates the temporal excitation patterns of creaky voice.