3 papers
cs.CL2026
Pretrained self-supervised speech models can recognize unseen consonants
Chihiro Taguchi, Ãric Le Ferrand, Hirosi Nakagawa +4
Modern pretrained self-supervised automatic speech recognition models are trained on large-scale audio data to encode speech into contextualized representations. However, their tra…
cs.CL2026
Automatic Speech Recognition for Documenting Endangered Languages: Case Study of Ikema Miyakoan
Chihiro Taguchi, Yukinori Takubo, David Chiang
Language endangerment poses a major challenge to linguistic diversity worldwide, and technological advances have opened new avenues for documentation and revitalization. Among thes…
cs.CL2025
Languages Still Left Behind: Toward a Better Multilingual Machine Translation Benchmark
Chihiro Taguchi, Seng Mai, Keita Kurabe +4
Multilingual machine translation (MT) benchmarks play a central role in evaluating the capabilities of modern MT systems. Among them, the FLORES+ benchmark is widely used, offering…