4 papers
Google Crowdsourced Speech Corpora and Related Open-Source Resources for Low-Resource Languages and Dialects: An Overview
Alena Butryna, Shan-Hui Cathy Chu, Isin Demirsahin +18
This paper presents an overview of a program designed to address the growing need for developing freely available speech resources for under-represented languages. At present we ha…
Towards Induction of Structured Phoneme Inventories
Alexander Gutkin, Martin Jansche, Lucy Skidmore
This extended abstract surveying the work on phonological typology was prepared for "SIGTYP 2020: The Second Workshop on Computational Research in Linguistic Typology" to be held a…
Linguistic Typology Features from Text: Inferring the Sparse Features of World Atlas of Language Structures
Alexander Gutkin, Tatiana Merkulova, Martin Jansche
The use of linguistic typological resources in natural language processing has been steadily gaining more popularity. It has been observed that the use of typological information,…
Sampling from Stochastic Finite Automata with Applications to CTC Decoding
Martin Jansche, Alexander Gutkin
Stochastic finite automata arise naturally in many language and speech processing tasks. They include stochastic acceptors, which represent certain probability distributions over r…