Multimodal Modeling For Spoken Language Identification

no code implementations • 19 Sep 2023 • Shikhar Bharadwaj, Min Ma, Shikhar Vashishth, Ankur Bapna, Sriram Ganapathy, Vera Axelrod, Siddharth Dalmia, Wei Han, Yu Zhang, Daan van Esch, Sandy Ritchie, Partha Talukdar, Jason Riesa

Spoken language identification refers to the task of automatically predicting the spoken language in a given utterance.

Language Identification Spoken language identification

Large vocabulary speech recognition for languages of Africa: multilingual modeling and self-supervised learning

no code implementations • 5 Aug 2022 • Sandy Ritchie, You-Chi Cheng, Mingqing Chen, Rajiv Mathews, Daan van Esch, Bo Li, Khe Chai Sim

Almost none of the 2, 000+ languages spoken in Africa have widely available automatic speech recognition systems, and the required data is also only available for a few languages.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

Text Normalization for Low-Resource Languages of Africa

no code implementations • 29 Mar 2021 • Andrew Zupon, Evan Crew, Sandy Ritchie

Training data for machine learning models can come from many different sources, which can be of dubious quality.

Mining Large-Scale Low-Resource Pronunciation Data From Wikipedia

no code implementations • 27 Jan 2021 • Tania Chakraborty, Manasa Prasad, Theresa Breiner, Sandy Ritchie, Daan van Esch

Pronunciation modeling is a key task for building speech technology in new languages, and while solid grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) mapping systems exist, language coverage can stand to be improved.