Discovering Phonetic Inventories with Crosslingual Automatic Speech Recognition

1 code implementation • 26 Jan 2022 • Piotr Żelasko, Siyuan Feng, Laureano Moro Velazquez, Ali Abavisani, Saurabhchand Bhati, Odette Scharenborg, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Najim Dehak

In this paper, we 1) investigate the influence of different factors (i. e., model architecture, phonotactic model, type of speech representation) on phone recognition in an unknown language; 2) provide an analysis of which phones transfer well across languages and which do not in order to understand the limitations of and areas for further improvement for automatic phone inventory creation; and 3) present different methods to build a phone inventory of an unseen language in an unsupervised way.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3