Effects of Layer Freezing on Transferring a Speech Recognition System to Under-resourced Languages

KONVENS (WS) 2021  ·  Onno Eberhard, Torsten Zesch ·

In this paper, we investigate the effect of layer freezing on the effectiveness of model transfer in the area of automatic speech recognition. We experiment with Mozilla's DeepSpeech architecture on German and Swiss German speech datasets and compare the results of either training from scratch vs. transferring a pre-trained model. We compare different layer freezing schemes and find that even freezing only one layer already significantly improves results.

PDF Abstract KONVENS (WS) 2021 PDF KONVENS (WS) 2021 Abstract

Datasets


  Add Datasets introduced or used in this paper

Results from the Paper


  Submit results from this paper to get state-of-the-art GitHub badges and help the community compare results to other papers.

Methods


No methods listed for this paper. Add relevant methods here