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Automatic Speech Recognition Datasets in Cantonese: A Survey and New Dataset ...
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Yu, Tiezheng; Frieske, Rita; Xu, Peng; Cahyawijaya, Samuel; Yiu, Cheuk Tung Shadow; Lovenia, Holy; Dai, Wenliang; Barezi, Elham J.; Chen, Qifeng; Ma, Xiaojuan; Shi, Bertram E.; Fung, Pascale. - : arXiv, 2022
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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) on low resource languages improves the access of linguistic minorities to technological advantages provided by artificial intelligence (AI). In this paper, we address the problem of data scarcity for the Hong Kong Cantonese language by creating a new Cantonese dataset. Our dataset, Multi-Domain Cantonese Corpus (MDCC), consists of 73.6 hours of clean read speech paired with transcripts, collected from Cantonese audiobooks from Hong Kong. It comprises philosophy, politics, education, culture, lifestyle and family domains, covering a wide range of topics. We also review all existing Cantonese datasets and analyze them according to their speech type, data source, total size and availability. We further conduct experiments with Fairseq S2T Transformer, a state-of-the-art ASR model, on the biggest existing dataset, Common Voice zh-HK, and our proposed MDCC, and the results show the effectiveness of our dataset. In addition, we create a powerful and robust Cantonese ASR model by ...
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Audio and Speech Processing eess.AS; Computation and Language cs.CL; FOS Computer and information sciences; FOS Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; Sound cs.SD
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2201.02419 https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02419
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ASCEND: A Spontaneous Chinese-English Dataset for Code-switching in Multi-turn Conversation ...
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