4 papers
CS-FLEURS: A Massively Multilingual and Code-Switched Speech Dataset
Brian Yan, Injy Hamed, Shuichiro Shimizu +24
We present CS-FLEURS, a new dataset for developing and evaluating code-switched speech recognition and translation systems beyond high-resourced languages. CS-FLEURS consists of 4…
OWLS: Scaling Laws for Multilingual Speech Recognition and Translation Models
William Chen, Jinchuan Tian, Yifan Peng +3
Neural scaling laws offer valuable insights for designing robust sequence processing architectures. While these laws have been extensively characterized in other modalities, their…
ESPnet-EZ: Python-only ESPnet for Easy Fine-tuning and Integration
Masao Someki, Kwanghee Choi, Siddhant Arora +7
We introduce ESPnet-EZ, an extension of the open-source speech processing toolkit ESPnet, aimed at quick and easy development of speech models. ESPnet-EZ focuses on two major aspec…
YODAS: Youtube-Oriented Dataset for Audio and Speech
Xinjian Li, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Takaaki Saeki +3
In this study, we introduce YODAS (YouTube-Oriented Dataset for Audio and Speech), a large-scale, multilingual dataset comprising currently over 500k hours of speech data in more t…