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Multimodal Modeling For Spoken Language Identification
Shikhar Bharadwaj, Min Ma, Shikhar Vashishth +10
Spoken language identification refers to the task of automatically predicting the spoken language in a given utterance. Conventionally, it is modeled as a speech-based language ide…
Large vocabulary speech recognition for languages of Africa: multilingual modeling and self-supervised learning
Sandy Ritchie, You-Chi Cheng, Mingqing Chen +4
Almost none of the 2,000+ languages spoken in Africa have widely available automatic speech recognition systems, and the required data is also only available for a few languages. W…
Accented Speech Recognition: Benchmarking, Pre-training, and Diverse Data
Alëna Aksënova, Zhehuai Chen, Chung-Cheng Chiu +8
Building inclusive speech recognition systems is a crucial step towards developing technologies that speakers of all language varieties can use. Therefore, ASR systems must work fo…
Building Machine Translation Systems for the Next Thousand Languages
Ankur Bapna, Isaac Caswell, Julia Kreutzer +21
In this paper we share findings from our effort to build practical machine translation (MT) systems capable of translating across over one thousand languages. We describe results i…
XTREME-S: Evaluating Cross-lingual Speech Representations
Alexis Conneau, Ankur Bapna, Yu Zhang +16
We introduce XTREME-S, a new benchmark to evaluate universal cross-lingual speech representations in many languages. XTREME-S covers four task families: speech recognition, classif…
Handling Compounding in Mobile Keyboard Input
Andreas Kabel, Keith Hall, Tom Ouyang +3
This paper proposes a framework to improve the typing experience of mobile users in morphologically rich languages. Smartphone keyboards typically support features such as input de…
Mining Large-Scale Low-Resource Pronunciation Data From Wikipedia
Tania Chakraborty, Manasa Prasad, Theresa Breiner +2
Pronunciation modeling is a key task for building speech technology in new languages, and while solid grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) mapping systems exist, language coverage can stand t…
Language ID in the Wild: Unexpected Challenges on the Path to a Thousand-Language Web Text Corpus
Isaac Caswell, Theresa Breiner, Daan van Esch +1
Large text corpora are increasingly important for a wide variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, and automatic language identification (LangID) is a core technology nee…