3 papers
cs.CL2024
Language Complexity and Speech Recognition Accuracy: Orthographic Complexity Hurts, Phonological Complexity Doesn't
Chihiro Taguchi, David Chiang
We investigate what linguistic factors affect the performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models. We hypothesize that orthographic and phonological complexities both degr…
cs.CL2024
Killkan: The Automatic Speech Recognition Dataset for Kichwa with Morphosyntactic Information
Chihiro Taguchi, Jefferson Saransig, Dayana Velásquez +1
This paper presents Killkan, the first dataset for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in the Kichwa language, an indigenous language of Ecuador. Kichwa is an extremely low-resource…
cs.CL2023
Universal Automatic Phonetic Transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet
Chihiro Taguchi, Yusuke Sakai, Parisa Haghani +1
This paper presents a state-of-the-art model for transcribing speech in any language into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Transcription of spoken languages into IPA is a…