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Dialect Transfer for Swiss German Speech Translation
Claudio Paonessa, Yanick Schraner, Jan Deriu +3
This paper investigates the challenges in building Swiss German speech translation systems, specifically focusing on the impact of dialect diversity and differences between Swiss G…
Text-to-Speech Pipeline for Swiss German -- A comparison
Tobias Bollinger, Jan Deriu, Manfred Vogel
In this work, we studied the synthesis of Swiss German speech using different Text-to-Speech (TTS) models. We evaluated the TTS models on three corpora, and we found, that VITS mod…
STT4SG-350: A Speech Corpus for All Swiss German Dialect Regions
Michel Plüss, Jan Deriu, Yanick Schraner +8
We present STT4SG-350 (Speech-to-Text for Swiss German), a corpus of Swiss German speech, annotated with Standard German text at the sentence level. The data is collected using a w…
Improving Metrics for Speech Translation
Claudio Paonessa, Dominik Frefel, Manfred Vogel
We introduce Parallel Paraphrasing (), an augmentation method for translation metrics making use of automatic paraphrasing of both the reference and hypoth…
2nd Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text Shared Task at SwissText 2022
Michel Plüss, Yanick Schraner, Christian Scheller +1
We present the results and findings of the 2nd Swiss German speech to Standard German text shared task at SwissText 2022. Participants were asked to build a sentence-level Swiss Ge…
Swiss German Speech to Text system evaluation
Yanick Schraner, Christian Scheller, Michel Plüss +1
We present an in-depth evaluation of four commercially available Speech-to-Text (STT) systems for Swiss German. The systems are anonymized and referred to as system a-d in this rep…
SDS-200: A Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text Corpus
Michel Plüss, Manuela Hürlimann, Marc Cuny +10
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. The datas…
Swiss Parliaments Corpus, an Automatically Aligned Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text Corpus
Michel Plüss, Lukas Neukom, Christian Scheller +1
We present the Swiss Parliaments Corpus (SPC), an automatically aligned Swiss German speech to Standard German text corpus. This first version of the corpus is based on publicly av…
Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning through Learning from Demonstrations in Minecraft
Christian Scheller, Yanick Schraner, Manfred Vogel
Sample inefficiency of deep reinforcement learning methods is a major obstacle for their use in real-world applications. In this work, we show how human demonstrations can improve…