Transfer Learning Based Free-Form Speech Command Classification for Low-Resource Languages (P19-2)
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| Challenge: | Current speech-based user interfaces use data intensive methodologies to recognize free-form speech commands, but this is not viable for low-resource languages, which lack speech data. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to develop a domain-specific speech command classification system using speech data from a high-resource language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system is robust to low-resource languages with limited speech data . the proposed system achieves significant results for Sinhala and Tamil datasets . |
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