5 papers
BuzzASR: A Swarm of 100+ Monolingual Speech Recognition Models
Shivam Singh, Aditya Yadavalli, Catherine Arnett +1
We introduce BuzzASR, a collection of language-specialized fine-tuned Whisper models adapted for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in 102 languages. Large end-to-end Transformer-b…
What Do Prosody and Text Convey? Characterizing How Meaningful Information is Distributed Across Multiple Channels
Aditya Yadavalli, Tiago Pimentel, Tamar I Regev +2
Prosody -- the melody of speech -- conveys critical information often not captured by the words or text of a message. In this paper, we propose an information-theoretic approach to…
ELR-1000: A Community-Generated Dataset for Endangered Indic Indigenous Languages
Neha Joshi, Pamir Gogoi, Aasim Mirza +7
We present a culturally-grounded multimodal dataset of 1,060 traditional recipes crowdsourced from rural communities across remote regions of Eastern India, spanning 10 endangered…
PARIKSHA: A Large-Scale Investigation of Human-LLM Evaluator Agreement on Multilingual and Multi-Cultural Data
Ishaan Watts, Varun Gumma, Aditya Yadavalli +3
Evaluation of multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) is challenging due to a variety of factors -- the lack of benchmarks with sufficient linguistic diversity, contamination of…
Akal Badi ya Bias: An Exploratory Study of Gender Bias in Hindi Language Technology
Rishav Hada, Safiya Husain, Varun Gumma +8
Existing research in measuring and mitigating gender bias predominantly centers on English, overlooking the intricate challenges posed by non-English languages and the Global South…