3 accepted papers
Transcription is often reported as the bottleneck in endangered language documentation, requiring large efforts from scarce speakers and transcribers. In general, automatic speech recognition (ASR) can be accurate enough to accelerate transcription only if trained on large amounts of transcribed dat…
This paper surveys the first, three-year phase of a project at the National Research Council of Canada that is developing software to assist Indigenous communities in Canada in preserving their languages and extending their use. The project aimed to work within the empowerment paradigm, where collab…
Voice passphrase verification is the task of deciding whether an audio recording contains a given passphrase. It is usually done by evaluating the likelihood of the passphrase reference text given the audio, which requires a different ASR system for each language. Here we look at verification when t…