5 citations · 7 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
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eess.AS2024★ 5 cited
Learn and Don't Forget: Adding a New Language to ASR Foundation Models
Mengjie Qian, Siyuan Tang, Rao Ma +2
Foundation ASR models often support many languages, e.g. 100 languages in Whisper. However, there has been limited work on integrating an additional, typically low-resource, langua…
cs.CL2023
Towards spoken dialect identification of Irish
Liam Lonergan, Mengjie Qian, Neasa Ní Chiaráin +2
The Irish language is rich in its diversity of dialects and accents. This compounds the difficulty of creating a speech recognition system for the low-resource language, as such a…
cs.CL2023★ 2 cited
Towards dialect-inclusive recognition in a low-resource language: are balanced corpora the answer?
Liam Lonergan, Mengjie Qian, Neasa Ní Chiaráin +2
ASR systems are generally built for the spoken 'standard', and their performance declines for non-standard dialects/varieties. This is a problem for a language like Irish, where th…