Automatic Spoken Language Identification using a Time-Delay Neural Network

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09564v1
• Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 13:47:48 GMT
• Title: Automatic Spoken Language Identification using a Time-Delay Neural Network
• Authors: Benjamin Kepecs and Homayoon Beigi
• Abstract summary: A language identification system was built to distinguish between Arabic, Spanish, French, and Turkish. A pre-existing multilingual dataset was used to train a series of acoustic models. The system was provided with a custom multilingual language model and a specialized pronunciation lexicon.
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• Abstract: Closed-set spoken language identification is the task of recognizing the language being spoken in a recorded audio clip from a set of known languages. In this study, a language identification system was built and trained to distinguish between Arabic, Spanish, French, and Turkish based on nothing more than recorded speech. A pre-existing multilingual dataset was used to train a series of acoustic models based on the Tedlium TDNN model to perform automatic speech recognition. The system was provided with a custom multilingual language model and a specialized pronunciation lexicon with language names prepended to phones. The trained model was used to generate phone alignments to test data from all four languages, and languages were predicted based on a voting scheme choosing the most common language prepend in an utterance. Accuracy was measured by comparing predicted languages to known languages, and was determined to be very high in identifying Spanish and Arabic, and somewhat lower in identifying Turkish and French.

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