Evaluating the Efficacy of Large Acoustic Model for Documenting Non-Orthographic Tribal Languages in India (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Pre-trained Large Acoustic Models have been shown to improve performance in spoken languages . however, their potential for novel under-resourced languages is not fully known . |
| Approach: | They propose to use pre-trained Large Acoustic Models to document under-resourced languages . they use scripts from languages that hold a prominent presence in the geographical regions . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can document under-resourced languages in the electronic domain . the model can be used to document languages with a written script . |
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