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 • 13 Aug 2021 • Ewald van der Westhuizen, Trideba Padhi, Thomas Niesler
We find that, although maximising the training pool by including all six additional languages provides improved speech recognition in both target languages, substantially better performance can be achieved by a more judicious choice.