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Alëna Aksënova

2 accepted papers

2024

Improving Speech Recognition for African American English with Audio Classification

ICASSP 2024accepted

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have been shown to have large quality disparities between the language varieties they are intended or expected to recognize. One way to mitigate this is to train or fine-tune models with more representative datasets. But this approach can be hindered by lim…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2020

Algorithmic Exploration of American English Dialects

ICASSP 2020accepted

In this paper, we use a novel algorithmic approach to explore dialectal variation in American English speech. Without the need for human phonemic annotations, we are able to use an existing corpus transcribed in text form only. Our results show that, in general, American English dialects can be divi…

Cited by 6SourceScholar