AccentFold: A Journey through African Accents for Zero-Shot ASR Adaptation to Target Accents

no code implementations • 2 Feb 2024 • Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Aditya Yadavalli, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Tobi Olatunji, Clinton C Mbataku

While previous approaches have focused on modeling techniques or creating accented speech datasets, gathering sufficient data for the multitude of accents, particularly in the African context, remains impractical due to their sheer diversity and associated budget constraints.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1