Papers by Ewald Van der westhuizen
Semi-supervised Development of ASR Systems for Multilingual Code-switched Speech in Under-resourced Languages (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing models for code-switching between languages are under-resourced and limited by text and acoustic data. |
| Approach: | They propose to construct four separate bilingual automatic speech recognisers corresponding to four different language pairs between which speakers switch frequently. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models are compared with a non-batch-wise approach and show that they perform better when used with sparse training data. |