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Investigating data sharing in speech recognition for an underresourced language: the case of algerian dialect

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The Arabic language has many varieties, including its standard form, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and its spoken forms, namely the dialects. Those dialects are representative examples of under-resourced languages for which automatic speech recognition is considered as an unresolved issue. To address this issue, we recorded several hours of spoken Algerian dialect and used them to train a baseline model. This model was boosted afterwards by taking advantage of other languages that impact this dialect by integrating their data in one large corpus and by investigating three approaches: multilingual training, multitask learning and transfer learning. The best performance was achieved using a limited and balanced amount of acoustic data from each additional language, as compared to the data size of the studied dialect. This approach led to an improvement of 3.8% in terms of word error rate in comparison to the baseline system trained only on the dialect data.
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hal-03137048 , version 1 (10-02-2021)

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Mohamed Amine Menacer, Kamel Smaïli. Investigating data sharing in speech recognition for an underresourced language: the case of algerian dialect. 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing - NATP 2021, Mar 2021, Vienna, Austria. ⟨hal-03137048⟩
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