Papers with BembaSpeech
BembaSpeech: A Speech Recognition Corpus for the Bemba Language (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing speech recognition systems for African languages are very low . lack of resources (speech and text) can be attributed to poor quality of speech. |
| Approach: | They present a preprocessed, ready-to-use automatic speech recognition corpus, BembaSpeech, consisting of 24 hours of read speech in the Bemba language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves a word error rate (WER) of 32.91% on the Bemba language . the 1 billion XLS-R parameter model achieve better performance than the monolingual pre-trained English model on the corpus. |