Automatic Speech Recognition for Uyghur through Multilingual Acoustic Modeling (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Low-resource languages suffer from lower performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) due to the lack of data. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Turkish as donor language to train acoustic models using multilingual training to achieve more context coverage. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system performs better with multilingual training for the under-resourced Uyghur language. |
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