Papers with Speech processing
MASRI-HEADSET: A Maltese Corpus for Speech Recognition (2020.lrec-1)
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Carlos Daniel Hernandez Mena, Albert Gatt, Andrea DeMarco, Claudia Borg, Lonneke van der Plas, Amanda Muscat, Ian Padovani
| Challenge: | Maltese is the national language of Malta and is spoken by approximately 500,000 people. |
| Approach: | They present the first spoken Maltese corpus designed purposely for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) it consists of 8 hours of speech paired with text, recorded by using short text snippets in a laboratory environment. |
| Outcome: | The MASRI-HEADSET corpus was developed by the MASR project at the University of Malta. |
WenetSpeech-Wu: Datasets, Benchmarks, and Models for a Unified Chinese Wu Dialect Speech Processing Ecosystem (2026.findings-acl)
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Chengyou Wang, Mingchen Shao, Jingbin Hu, Zeyu Zhu, Hongfei Xue, Bingshen Mu, Xin Xu, Xingyi Duan, Binbin Zhang, Zhu Pengcheng, Chuang Ding, Xiaojun Zhang, Hui Bu, Lei Xie
| Challenge: | despite its linguistic significance, the Wu dialect of Chinese has long been hindered by the lack of large-scale speech data, standardized evaluation benchmarks, and publicly available models. |
| Approach: | They propose to use WenetSpeech-Wu as a large-scale, multi-dimensionally annotated open-source speech corpus for the Wu dialect of Chinese. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset includes 8,000 hours of speech data and strong open-source models . the proposed dataset is competitive and empirically validated . |