Overview of the Second Shared Task on Speech Recognition for Vulnerable Individuals in Tamil

Bharathi B, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Subalalitha Cn, Sripriya Natarajan, Rajeswari Natarajan, S Suhasini, Swetha Valli


Abstract
This paper manifest the overview of the shared task on Speech Recognition for Vulnerable individuals in Tamil(LT-EDI-ACL2023). Task is provided with an Tamil dataset, which is collected from elderly people of three different genders, male, female and transgender. The audio samples were recorded from the public locations like hospitals, markets, vegetable shop, etc. The dataset is released in two phase, training and testing phase. The partcipants were asked to use different models and methods to handle audio signals and submit the result as transcription of the test samples given. The result submitted by the participants was evaluated using WER (Word Error Rate). The participants used the transformer-based model for automatic speech recognition. The results and different pre-trained transformer based models used by the participants is discussed in this overview paper.
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2023.ltedi-1.5
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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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September
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2023
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Bharathi R. Chakravarthi, B. Bharathi, Joephine Griffith, Kalika Bali, Paul Buitelaar
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LTEDI | WS
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INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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31–37
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Bharathi B, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Subalalitha Cn, Sripriya Natarajan, Rajeswari Natarajan, S Suhasini, and Swetha Valli. 2023. Overview of the Second Shared Task on Speech Recognition for Vulnerable Individuals in Tamil. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, pages 31–37, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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Overview of the Second Shared Task on Speech Recognition for Vulnerable Individuals in Tamil (B et al., LTEDI-WS 2023)
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