Multilingual Transfer Learning for Children Automatic Speech Recognition

no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Thomas Rolland, Alberto Abad, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

Our results provide a positive answer to our research question, by showing that using transfer learning on top of a multilingual model for an unseen language outperforms conventional single language-specific learning.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

Pathological speech detection using x-vector embeddings

no code implementations • 2 Mar 2020 • Catarina Botelho, Francisco Teixeira, Thomas Rolland, Alberto Abad, Isabel Trancoso

We test our approach against knowledge-based features and i-vectors, and report results for two European Portuguese corpora, for OSA and PD, as well as for an additional Spanish corpus for PD.