6 papers
On-Policy Self-Distillation for Multi-Dialect ASR: Mastering Dialects, Retaining Mandarin
Shuiyuan Wang, Bingshen Mu, Pengshen Zhang +6
Recent large-scale ASR models already achieve strong Mandarin recognition accuracy and have some ability to recognize Chinese dialects. However, their dialect recognition accuracy…
GigaSpeechBench: A Real-World Multilingual Speech-to-Text Benchmark
Yujie Tu, Yifan Yang, Tianrui Wang +36
While modern ASR systems achieve low error rates on high-resource benchmarks, such performance often overestimates real-world robustness. Existing evaluations address challenges in…
WenetSpeech-Wu: Datasets, Benchmarks, and Models for a Unified Chinese Wu Dialect Speech Processing Ecosystem
Chengyou Wang, Mingchen Shao, Jingbin Hu +11
Speech processing for low-resource dialects remains a fundamental challenge in developing inclusive and robust speech technologies. Despite its linguistic significance and large sp…
WEST: LLM based Speech Toolkit for Speech Understanding, Generation, and Interaction
Binbin Zhang, Chengdong Liang, Shuai Wang +8
In this paper, we present WEST(WE Speech Toolkit), a speech toolkit based on a large language model (LLM) for speech understanding, generation, and interaction. There are three key…
WenetSpeech-Chuan: A Large-Scale Sichuanese Corpus with Rich Annotation for Dialectal Speech Processing
Yuhang Dai, Ziyu Zhang, Shuai Wang +13
The scarcity of large-scale, open-source data for dialects severely hinders progress in speech technology, a challenge particularly acute for the widely spoken Sichuanese dialects…
WenetSpeech-Yue: A Large-scale Cantonese Speech Corpus with Multi-dimensional Annotation
Longhao Li, Zhao Guo, Hongjie Chen +15
The development of speech understanding and generation has been significantly accelerated by the availability of large-scale, high-quality speech datasets. Among these, ASR and TTS…