SpliceOut: A Simple and Efficient Audio Augmentation Method

no code implementations • 30 Sep 2021 • Arjit Jain, Pranay Reddy Samala, Deepak Mittal, Preethi Jyoti, Maneesh Singh

Time masking has become a de facto augmentation technique for speech and audio tasks, including automatic speech recognition (ASR) and audio classification, most notably as a part of SpecAugment.

Audio Classification Automatic Speech Recognition +5

Crowdsourcing Speech Data for Low-Resource Languages from Low-Income Workers

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Basil Abraham, Danish Goel, Divya Siddarth, Kalika Bali, Manu Chopra, Monojit Choudhury, Pratik Joshi, Preethi Jyoti, Sunayana Sitaram, Vivek Seshadri

Unfortunately, collecting labelled speech data in any language is an expensive and resource-intensive task.