Enabling Interactive Transcription in an Indigenous Community

2020/11/12 by Éric Le Ferrand, Steven Bird, Ferrand, Éric Le +3
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Speech Recognition and Synthesis #Speech and dialogue systems

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2011.06198

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Abstract

We propose a novel transcription workflow which combines spoken term detection and human-in-the-loop, together with a pilot experiment. This work is grounded in an almost zero-resource scenario where only a few terms have so far been identified, involving two endangered languages. We show that in the early stages of transcription, when the available data is insufficient to train a robust ASR system, it is possible to take advantage of the transcription of a small number of isolated words in order to bootstrap the transcription of a speech collection.

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