Papers by Gilles Boulianne
Progress in Multilingual Speech Recognition for Low Resource Languages Kurmanji Kurdish, Cree and Inuktut (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Using acoustic data, we develop automatic speech recognition systems for three low resource languages. |
| Approach: | They develop automatic speech recognition systems for three low resource languages using acoustic training data from 12 different languages in the hybrid DNN/HMM framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models are for three low resource languages: Kurmanji Kurdish, Cree and Inuktut. |
Automatic Transcription Challenges for Inuktitut, a Low-Resource Polysynthetic Language (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Inuktitut is one of the 60 Indigenous languages currently spoken in Canada . polysynthetic languages are often termed agglutinative when their morphemes have clear boundaries and thus are easily segmentable. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a corpus of 23 hours of transcribed oral stories to train automatic speech recognition in Inuktitut. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model shows that Inuktitut displays a much higher degree of polysynthesis than other agglutinative languages like Finnish or Turkish. |
Phoneme transcription of endangered languages: an evaluation of recent ASR architectures in the single speaker scenario (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent work on phonetic transcription is reported to be the bottleneck in endangered languages . however, when a single speaker is involved, small amounts of training are needed . |
| Approach: | They compare automatic speech recognition (ASR) approaches to speaker-dependent phonetic transcription using a common dataset of 11 languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system handles morphologically complex languages and writing systems for which no pronunciation dictionary exists. |
The Indigenous Languages Technology project at NRC Canada: An empowerment-oriented approach to developing language software (2020.coling-main)
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Roland Kuhn, Fineen Davis, Alain Désilets, Eric Joanis, Anna Kazantseva, Rebecca Knowles, Patrick Littell, Delaney Lothian, Aidan Pine, Caroline Running Wolf, Eddie Santos, Darlene Stewart, Gilles Boulianne, Vishwa Gupta, Brian Maracle Owennatékha, Akwiratékha’ Martin, Christopher Cox, Marie-Odile Junker, Olivia Sammons, Delasie Torkornoo, Nathan Thanyehténhas Brinklow, Sara Child, Benoît Farley, David Huggins-Daines, Daisy Rosenblum, Heather Souter
| Challenge: | This paper describes the first, three-year phase of a project at the National Research Council of Canada that is developing software to assist Indigenous communities in preserving their languages and extending their use. |
| Approach: | They describe the first phase of a project at the National Research Council of Canada that is developing software to assist Indigenous communities in preserving their languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed software will help Indigenous communities preserve and revitalize their languages and extend their use. |