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Are ASR foundation models generalized enough to capture features of regional dialects for low-resource languages?
Tawsif Tashwar Dipto, Azmol Hossain, Rubayet Sabbir Faruque +12
Conventional research on speech recognition modeling relies on the canonical form for most low-resource languages while automatic speech recognition (ASR) for regional dialects is…
RegSpeech12: A Regional Corpus of Bengali Spontaneous Speech Across Dialects
Md. Rezuwan Hassan, Azmol Hossain, Kanij Fatema +13
The Bengali language, spoken extensively across South Asia and among diasporic communities, exhibits considerable dialectal diversity shaped by geography, culture, and history. Pho…
Mapping Violence: Developing an Extensive Framework to Build a Bangla Sectarian Expression Dataset from Social Media Interactions
Nazia Tasnim, Sujan Sen Gupta, Md. Istiak Hossain Shihab +10
Communal violence in online forums has become extremely prevalent in South Asia, where many communities of different cultures coexist and share resources. These societies exhibit a…
IPA Transcription of Bengali Texts
Kanij Fatema, Fazle Dawood Haider, Nirzona Ferdousi Turpa +13
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) serves to systematize phonemes in language, enabling precise textual representation of pronunciation. In Bengali phonology and phonetics,…