2024
Where are you from? Geolocating Speech and Applications to Language Identification
Patrick Foley, Matthew Wiesner, Bismarck Odoom, Leibny Paola Garcia Perera, Kenton Murray, Philipp Koehn
NAACL 2024long
We train models to answer the question, Where are you from? and show how such models can be repurposed for language identification (LID). To our knowledge, this paper is the first to introduce data sources, methods and models to tackle the task of geolocation of speech at a global scale, and the fir…