Papers by Éric Le Ferrand
Fashioning Local Designs from Generic Speech Technologies in an Australian Aboriginal Community (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Recent research has focused on low-resource languages and the transcription bottleneck paradigm. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a spoken term detection system to train a speech recognition system in an Aboriginal community to reach better comprehension and engagement from Aboriginal participants. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can be implemented in an Aboriginal community and reach better comprehension and engagement from Aboriginal participants. |
MaSS: A Large and Clean Multilingual Corpus of Sentence-aligned Spoken Utterances Extracted from the Bible (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | The Bible is the same for all the languages, thus constituting a multilingual and comparable 2 spoken corpus, is not exploited to date. |
| Approach: | They propose to add multilingual links between small speech segments in different languages . they use a large dataset of 8,130 parallel spoken utterances across 8 languages - maSS . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can build automatic speech recognition models for 700 languages. |