4 papers
Nwāchā Munā: A Devanagari Speech Corpus and Proximal Transfer Benchmark for Nepal Bhasha ASR
Rishikesh Kumar Sharma, Safal Narshing Shrestha, Jenny Poudel +4
Nepal Bhasha (Newari), an endangered language of the Kathmandu Valley, remains digitally marginalized due to the severe scarcity of annotated speech resources. In this work, we int…
NepTam: A Nepali-Tamang Parallel Corpus and Baseline Machine Translation Experiments
Rupak Raj Ghimire, Bipesh Subedi, Balaram Prasain +7
Modern Translation Systems heavily rely on high-quality, large parallel datasets for state-of-the-art performance. However, such resources are largely unavailable for most of the S…
Benchmarking BERT-based Models for Sentence-level Topic Classification in Nepali Language
Nischal Karki, Bipesh Subedi, Prakash Poudyal +2
Transformer-based models such as BERT have significantly advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) across many languages. However, Nepali, a low-resource language written in Devan…
A Comprehensive Study of the Current State-of-the-Art in Nepali Automatic Speech Recognition Systems
Rupak Raj Ghimire, Bal Krishna Bal, Prakash Poudyal
In this paper, we examine the research conducted in the field of Nepali Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). The primary objective of this survey is to conduct a comprehensive revie…