Exploring the Impact of Data Quantity on ASR in Extremely Low-resource Languages

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08872v1
• Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:35:47 GMT
• Title: Exploring the Impact of Data Quantity on ASR in Extremely Low-resource Languages
• Authors: Yao-Fei Cheng, Li-Wei Chen, Hung-Shin Lee, Hsin-Min Wang,
• Abstract summary: This study focuses on two endangered Austronesian languages, Amis and Seediq. We propose a novel data-selection scheme leveraging a multilingual corpus to augment the limited target language data.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This study investigates the efficacy of data augmentation techniques for low-resource automatic speech recognition (ASR), focusing on two endangered Austronesian languages, Amis and Seediq. Recognizing the potential of self-supervised learning (SSL) in low-resource settings, we explore the impact of data volume on the continued pre-training of SSL models. We propose a novel data-selection scheme leveraging a multilingual corpus to augment the limited target language data. This scheme utilizes a language classifier to extract utterance embeddings and employs one-class classifiers to identify utterances phonetically and phonologically proximate to the target languages. Utterances are ranked and selected based on their decision scores, ensuring the inclusion of highly relevant data in the SSL-ASR pipeline. Our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach, yielding substantial improvements in ASR performance for both Amis and Seediq. These findings underscore the feasibility and promise of data augmentation through cross-lingual transfer learning for low-resource language ASR.

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