no code implementations • 13 Oct 2023 • Claudio Paonessa, Yanick Schraner, Jan Deriu, Manuela Hürlimann, Manfred Vogel, Mark Cieliebak
This paper investigates the challenges in building Swiss German speech translation systems, specifically focusing on the impact of dialect diversity and differences between Swiss German and Standard German.
no code implementations • 30 May 2023 • Michel Plüss, Jan Deriu, Yanick Schraner, Claudio Paonessa, Julia Hartmann, Larissa Schmidt, Christian Scheller, Manuela Hürlimann, Tanja Samardžić, Manfred Vogel, Mark Cieliebak
We train an ASR model on the training set and achieve an average BLEU score of 74. 7 on the test set.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +5
1 code implementation • 17 Jan 2023 • Michel Plüss, Yanick Schraner, Christian Scheller, Manfred Vogel
We present the results and findings of the 2nd Swiss German speech to Standard German text shared task at SwissText 2022.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2022 • Yanick Schraner
With our method, we can improve the sample efficiency and generality of the student compared to tabula-rasa reinforcement learning.
no code implementations • 1 Jul 2022 • Yanick Schraner, Christian Scheller, Michel Plüss, Manfred Vogel
We compare the four systems to our STT model, referred to as FHNW from hereon after, and provide details on how we trained our model.
1 code implementation • LREC 2022 • Michel Plüss, Manuela Hürlimann, Marc Cuny, Alla Stöckli, Nikolaos Kapotis, Julia Hartmann, Malgorzata Anna Ulasik, Christian Scheller, Yanick Schraner, Amit Jain, Jan Deriu, Mark Cieliebak, Manfred Vogel
We present SDS-200, a corpus of Swiss German dialectal speech with Standard German text translations, annotated with dialect, age, and gender information of the speakers.
1 code implementation • 1 Jul 2021 • Anssi Kanervisto, Christian Scheller, Yanick Schraner, Ville Hautamäki
Reinforcement learning (RL) research focuses on general solutions that can be applied across different domains.
no code implementations • 7 Jun 2021 • William Hebgen Guss, Stephanie Milani, Nicholay Topin, Brandon Houghton, Sharada Mohanty, Andrew Melnik, Augustin Harter, Benoit Buschmaas, Bjarne Jaster, Christoph Berganski, Dennis Heitkamp, Marko Henning, Helge Ritter, Chengjie WU, Xiaotian Hao, Yiming Lu, Hangyu Mao, Yihuan Mao, Chao Wang, Michal Opanowicz, Anssi Kanervisto, Yanick Schraner, Christian Scheller, Xiren Zhou, Lu Liu, Daichi Nishio, Toi Tsuneda, Karolis Ramanauskas, Gabija Juceviciute
Reinforcement learning competitions have formed the basis for standard research benchmarks, galvanized advances in the state-of-the-art, and shaped the direction of the field.
3 code implementations • 12 Mar 2020 • Christian Scheller, Yanick Schraner, Manfred Vogel
Sample inefficiency of deep reinforcement learning methods is a major obstacle for their use in real-world applications.