Writing System and Speaker Metadata for 2,800+ Language Varieties

1 code implementation • LREC 2022 • Daan van Esch, Tamar Lucassen, Sebastian Ruder, Isaac Caswell, Clara Rivera

We describe an open-source dataset providing metadata for about 2, 800 language varieties used in the world today.

Personalization of End-to-end Speech Recognition On Mobile Devices For Named Entities

no code implementations • 14 Dec 2019 • Khe Chai Sim, Françoise Beaufays, Arnaud Benard, Dhruv Guliani, Andreas Kabel, Nikhil Khare, Tamar Lucassen, Petr Zadrazil, Harry Zhang, Leif Johnson, Giovanni Motta, Lillian Zhou

With speech input, if the user corrects only the names, the name recall rate improves to 64. 4%.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

Writing Across the World's Languages: Deep Internationalization for Gboard, the Google Keyboard

no code implementations • 3 Dec 2019 • Daan van Esch, Elnaz Sarbar, Tamar Lucassen, Jeremy O'Brien, Theresa Breiner, Manasa Prasad, Evan Crew, Chieu Nguyen, Françoise Beaufays

Today, Gboard supports 900+ language varieties across 70+ writing systems, and this report describes how and why we have been adding support for hundreds of language varieties from around the globe.