Challenge: Existing work focuses on low-resource and endangered languages with limited training sets.
Approach: They propose a hypothesis set for any unseen target language and combine it with a confusion network to propose 'the most likely hypothesis' they test the approach on over 600 unseened languages and demonstrate it significantly outperforms baselines.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms baselines on over 600 unseen languages.

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