Papers by Darshan Prabhu
Accented Speech Recognition With Accent-specific Codebooks (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Degradation in performance across underrepresented accents is a severe deterrent to inclusive adoption of ASR. |
| Approach: | They propose an approach to adapt speech accents to unseen accents by using cross-attention with a trainable set of codebooks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach yields significant performance gains on the seen English accents and unseen accents on the Mozilla Common Voice dataset. |