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Data Augmentation for Speech Recognition in Maltese: A Low-Resource Perspective

2021-11-15 14:28:21
Carlos Mena, Andrea DeMarco, Claudia Borg, Lonneke van der Plas, Albert Gatt

Abstract

Developing speech technologies is a challenge for low-resource languages for which both annotated and raw speech data is sparse. Maltese is one such language. Recent years have seen an increased interest in the computational processing of Maltese, including speech technologies, but resources for the latter remain sparse. In this paper, we consider data augmentation techniques for improving speech recognition for such languages, focusing on Maltese as a test case. We consider three different types of data augmentation: unsupervised training, multilingual training and the use of synthesized speech as training data. The goal is to determine which of these techniques, or combination of them, is the most effective to improve speech recognition for languages where the starting point is a small corpus of approximately 7 hours of transcribed speech. Our results show that combining the three data augmentation techniques studied here lead us to an absolute WER improvement of 15% without the use of a language model.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07793

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.07793.pdf


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