1 code implementation • 31 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.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Nick Wilkinson, Astik Biswas, Emre Yilmaz, Febe De Wet, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Thomas Niesler
Automatic segmentation was applied in combination with automaticspeaker diarization.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Astik Biswas, Febe De Wet, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Thomas Niesler
We present an analysis of semi-supervised acoustic and language model training for English-isiZulu code-switched (CS) ASR using soap opera speech.
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.
no code implementations • 20 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.
no code implementations • 28 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)
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