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Bilingual Fine-Tuning Enhances Low-Resource Speech Recognition

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Researchers have developed a method for improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) in low-resource languages through bilingual fine-tuning. The study evaluated this technique across nine diverse language pairs, using language identification tokens to distinguish between languages during training and inference. Results indicate that bilingual fine-tuning is effective when language identification is accurate, and providing the identification token at inference further boosts performance in cases of lower accuracy. AI

IMPACT This research offers a method to improve speech recognition for languages with limited data, potentially increasing accessibility and usability of AI technologies globally.

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Bilingual Fine-Tuning Enhances Low-Resource Speech Recognition

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Reihaneh Amooie, Yun Hao, Wietse de Vries, Jelske Dijkstra, Matt Coler, Martijn Wieling ·

    Improving low-resource ASR using bilingual fine-tuning with language identification: a cross-linguistic evaluation

    arXiv:2606.17820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study explores how bilingual fine-tuning affects automatic speech recognition (ASR) in low-resource languages. We evaluate this method across nine linguistically and geographically diverse language pairs, covering a range of la…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Martijn Wieling ·

    Improving low-resource ASR using bilingual fine-tuning with language identification: a cross-linguistic evaluation

    This study explores how bilingual fine-tuning affects automatic speech recognition (ASR) in low-resource languages. We evaluate this method across nine linguistically and geographically diverse language pairs, covering a range of language families and writing systems. To distingu…

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