Semi-supervised Development of ASR Systems for Multilingual Code-switched Speech in Under-resourced Languages

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03135v1
• Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 11:08:38 GMT
• Title: Semi-supervised Development of ASR Systems for Multilingual Code-switched Speech in Under-resourced Languages
• Authors: Astik Biswas, Emre Y{\i}lmaz, Febe de Wet, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Thomas Niesler
• Abstract summary: Two approaches are considered for under-resourced, code-switched speech in five South African languages. The first constructs four separate bilingual automatic speech recognisers corresponding to four different language pairs. The second uses a single, unified, five-lingual ASR system that represents all the languages.
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• Abstract: This paper reports on the semi-supervised development of acoustic and language models for under-resourced, code-switched speech in five South African languages. Two approaches are considered. The first constructs four separate bilingual automatic speech recognisers (ASRs) corresponding to four different language pairs between which speakers switch frequently. The second uses a single, unified, five-lingual ASR system that represents all the languages (English, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Setswana and Sesotho). We evaluate the effectiveness of these two approaches when used to add additional data to our extremely sparse training sets. Results indicate that batch-wise semi-supervised training yields better results than a non-batch-wise approach. Furthermore, while the separate bilingual systems achieved better recognition performance than the unified system, they benefited more from pseudo-labels generated by the five-lingual system than from those generated by the bilingual systems.

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