Automatic speech recognition for under-resourced languages: A survey

L Besacier, E Barnard, A Karpov, T Schultz - Speech communication, 2014 - Elsevier
Speech processing for under-resourced languages is an active field of research, which has
experienced significant progress during the past decade. We propose, in this paper, a …

Automatic speech recognition for Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz: An overview

W Du, Y Maimaitiyiming, M Nijat, L Li, A Hamdulla… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the emergence of deep learning, the performance of automatic speech recognition
(ASR) systems has remarkably improved. Especially for resource-rich languages such as …

Speech recognition and keyword spotting for low-resource languages: Babel project research at cued

MJF Gales, KM Knill, A Ragni… - … workshop on spoken …, 2014 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
Recently there has been increased interest in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and
Key Word Spotting (KWS) systems for low resource languages. One of the driving forces for …

Discovering phonetic inventories with crosslingual automatic speech recognition

P Żelasko, S Feng, LM Velazquez, A Abavisani… - Computer Speech & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The high cost of data acquisition makes Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model
training problematic for most existing languages, including languages that do not even have …

Structure of pauses in speech in the context of speaker verification and classification of speech type

M Igras-Cybulska, B Ziółko, P Żelasko… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2016 - Springer
Statistics of pauses appearing in Polish as a potential source of biometry information for
automatic speaker recognition were described. The usage of three main types of acoustic …

[PDF][PDF] Building an ASR system for a low-research language through the adaptation of a high-resource language ASR system: preliminary results

O Scharenborg, F Ciannella, S Palaskar… - … on Natural Language …, 2017 - researchgate.net
For many languages in the world, not enough (annotated) speech data is available to train
an ASR system. We here propose a new three-step method to build an ASR system for such …

That sounds familiar: an analysis of phonetic representations transfer across languages

P Żelasko, L Moro-Velázquez… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Only a handful of the world's languages are abundant with the resources that enable
practical applications of speech processing technologies. One of the methods to overcome …

Linguistic unit discovery from multi-modal inputs in unwritten languages: Summary of the “Speaking rosetta” JSALT 2017 workshop

O Scharenborg, L Besacier, A Black… - … , Speech and Signal …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We summarize the accomplishments of a multi-disciplinary workshop exploring the
computational and scientific issues surrounding the discovery of linguistic units (subwords …

Cross-language framework for word recognition and spotting of Indic scripts

AK Bhunia, PP Roy, A Mohta, U Pal - Pattern Recognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Handwritten word recognition and spotting of low-resource scripts are difficult as sufficient
training data is not available and it is often expensive for collecting data of such scripts. This …

Language independent and unsupervised acoustic models for speech recognition and keyword spotting

KM Knill, MJF Gales, A Ragni, SP Rath - 2014 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Developing high-performance speech processing systems for low-resource languages is
very challenging. One approach to address the lack of resources is to make use of data from …