Application of Speech Processes for the Documentation of Kréyòl Gwadloupéyen

Éric Le Ferrand, Fabiola Henri, Benjamin Lecouteux, Emmanuel Schang


Abstract
In recent times, there has been a growing number of research studies focused on addressing the challenges posed by low-resource languages and the transcription bottleneck phenomenon. This phenomenon has driven the development of speech recognition methods to transcribe regional and Indigenous languages automatically. Although there is much talk about bridging the gap between speech technologies and field linguistics, there is a lack of documented efficient communication between NLP experts and documentary linguists. The models created for low-resource languages often remain within the confines of computer science departments, while documentary linguistics remain attached to traditional transcription workflows. This paper presents the early stage of a collaboration between NLP experts and field linguists, resulting in the successful transcription of Kréyòl Gwadloupéyen using speech recognition technology.
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2023.fieldmatters-1.2
Volume:
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics
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May
Year:
2023
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
Editors:
Oleg Serikov, Ekaterina Voloshina, Anna Postnikova, Elena Klyachko, Ekaterina Vylomova, Tatiana Shavrina, Eric Le Ferrand, Valentin Malykh, Francis Tyers, Timofey Arkhangelskiy, Vladislav Mikhailov
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FieldMatters
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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17–22
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.fieldmatters-1.2
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.fieldmatters-1.2
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Éric Le Ferrand, Fabiola Henri, Benjamin Lecouteux, and Emmanuel Schang. 2023. Application of Speech Processes for the Documentation of Kréyòl Gwadloupéyen. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics, pages 17–22, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Application of Speech Processes for the Documentation of Kréyòl Gwadloupéyen (Le Ferrand et al., FieldMatters 2023)
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