1 citations · 3 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for
10 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…
AccentFold: A Journey through African Accents for Zero-Shot ASR Adaptation to Target Accents
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Aditya Yadavalli, Chris Chinenye Emezue +2
Despite advancements in speech recognition, accented speech remains challenging. While previous approaches have focused on modeling techniques or creating accented speech datasets,…
MunTTS: A Text-to-Speech System for Mundari
Varun Gumma, Rishav Hada, Aditya Yadavalli +4
We present MunTTS, an end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) system specifically for Mundari, a low-resource Indian language of the Austo-Asiatic family. Our work addresses the gap in lin…
AfriSpeech-200: Pan-African Accented Speech Dataset for Clinical and General Domain ASR
Tobi Olatunji, Tejumade Afonja, Aditya Yadavalli +8
Africa has a very low doctor-to-patient ratio. At very busy clinics, doctors could see 30+ patients per day -- a heavy patient burden compared with developed countries -- but produ…
X-RiSAWOZ: High-Quality End-to-End Multilingual Dialogue Datasets and Few-shot Agents
Mehrad Moradshahi, Tianhao Shen, Kalika Bali +16
Task-oriented dialogue research has mainly focused on a few popular languages like English and Chinese, due to the high dataset creation cost for a new language. To reduce the cost…
SLABERT Talk Pretty One Day: Modeling Second Language Acquisition with BERT
Aditya Yadavalli, Alekhya Yadavalli, Vera Tobin
Second language acquisition (SLA) research has extensively studied cross-linguistic transfer, the influence of linguistic structure of a speaker's native language [L1] on the succe…