Search Results for author: Astik Biswas

Found 8 papers, 1 papers with code

Multilingual Bottleneck Features for Improving ASR Performance of Code-Switched Speech in Under-Resourced Languages

1 code implementation31 Oct 2020 Trideba Padhi, Astik Biswas, Febe De Wet, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Thomas Niesler

In this work, we explore the benefits of using multilingual bottleneck features (mBNF) in acoustic modelling for the automatic speech recognition of code-switched (CS) speech in African languages.

Acoustic Modelling Automatic Speech Recognition +2

Semi-supervised Development of ASR Systems for Multilingual Code-switched Speech in Under-resourced Languages

no code implementations LREC 2020 Astik Biswas, Emre Yilmaz, Febe De Wet, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Thomas Niesler

This paper reports on the semi-supervised development of acoustic and language models for under-resourced, code-switched speech in five South African languages.

Semi-supervised acoustic model training for five-lingual code-switched ASR

no code implementations20 Jun 2019 Astik Biswas, Emre Yilmaz, Febe De Wet, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Thomas Niesler

Furthermore, because English is common to all language pairs in our data, it dominates when training a unified language model, leading to improved English ASR performance at the expense of the other languages.

Acoustic Modelling Language Modelling

Building a Unified Code-Switching ASR System for South African Languages

no code implementations28 Jul 2018 Emre Yilmaz, Astik Biswas, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Febe De Wet, Thomas Niesler

We present our first efforts towards building a single multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that can process code-switching (CS) speech in five languages spoken within the same population.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Automatic Speech Recognition for Humanitarian Applications in Somali

no code implementations23 Jul 2018 Raghav Menon, Astik Biswas, Armin Saeb, John Quinn, Thomas Niesler

We present our first efforts in building an automatic speech recognition system for Somali, an under-resourced language, using 1. 57 hrs of annotated speech for acoustic model training.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +5

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