Exploring the Effect of Dialect Mismatched Language Models in Telugu Automatic Speech Recognition (2022.naacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies have found that the ASR system is susceptible to dialect variations within a language, thereby adversely affecting the APR. |
| Approach: | They propose to build a dialect-specific AM while keeping the Language Model constant for all the dialects and to reduce the degradation by 9% and 15%. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be built for three different Telugu regional dialects while keeping the Language Model constant for all the dialects. |
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