Advancing Speech Translation: A Corpus of Mandarin-English Conversational Telephone Speech

no code implementations • 25 Mar 2024 • Shannon Wotherspoon, William Hartmann, Matthew Snover

This paper introduces a set of English translations for a 123-hour subset of the CallHome Mandarin Chinese data and the HKUST Mandarin Telephone Speech data for the task of speech translation.

Translation

Using heterogeneity in semi-supervised transcription hypotheses to improve code-switched speech recognition

no code implementations • 14 Jun 2021 • Andrew Slottje, Shannon Wotherspoon, William Hartmann, Matthew Snover, Owen Kimball

Labeled code-switched data are rare, so monolingual data are often used to model code-switched speech.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Speech Synthesis as Augmentation for Low-Resource ASR

no code implementations • 23 Dec 2020 • Deblin Bagchi, Shannon Wotherspoon, Zhuolin Jiang, Prasanna Muthukumar

Meanwhile, speech synthesis techniques have been rapidly getting closer to the goal of achieving human-like speech.

Data Augmentation speech-recognition +2