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Investigations on Speech Recognition Systems for Low-Resource Dialectal Arabic-English Code-Switching Speech

2021-08-29 17:23:30
Injy Hamed, Pavel Denisov, Chia-Yu Li, Mohamed Elmahdy, Slim Abdennadher, Ngoc Thang Vu

Abstract

Code-switching (CS), defined as the mixing of languages in conversations, has become a worldwide phenomenon. The prevalence of CS has been recently met with a growing demand and interest to build CS ASR systems. In this paper, we present our work on code-switched Egyptian Arabic-English automatic speech recognition (ASR). We first contribute in filling the huge gap in resources by collecting, analyzing and publishing our spontaneous CS Egyptian Arabic-English speech corpus. We build our ASR systems using DNN-based hybrid and Transformer-based end-to-end models. In this paper, we present a thorough comparison between both approaches under the setting of a low-resource, orthographically unstandardized, and morphologically rich language pair. We show that while both systems give comparable overall recognition results, each system provides complementary sets of strength points. We show that recognition can be improved by combining the outputs of both systems. We propose several effective system combination approaches, where hypotheses of both systems are merged on sentence- and word-levels. Our approaches result in overall WER relative improvement of 4.7%, over a baseline performance of 32.1% WER. In the case of intra-sentential CS sentences, we achieve WER relative improvement of 4.8%. Our best performing system achieves 30.6% WER on ArzEn test set.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12881

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.12881.pdf


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