2 papers
cs.CL2024
Self-supervised Speech Representations Still Struggle with African American Vernacular English
Kalvin Chang, Yi-Hui Chou, Jiatong Shi +4
Underperformance of ASR systems for speakers of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and other marginalized language varieties is a well-documented phenomenon, and one that r…
cs.CL2023
Evaluating Self-supervised Speech Models on a Taiwanese Hokkien Corpus
Yi-Hui Chou, Kalvin Chang, Meng-Ju Wu +12
Taiwanese Hokkien is declining in use and status due to a language shift towards Mandarin in Taiwan. This is partly why it is a low resource language in NLP and speech research tod…