Towards the speech recognition for Livonian

Valts Ernštreits


Abstract
This article outlines the path toward the development of speech synthesis and speech recognition technologies for Livonian, a critically endangered Uralic language with around 20 contemporary fluent speakers. It presents the rationale behind the creation of these technologies and introduces the hypotheses and planned approaches to achieve this goal. The article discusses the four-stage approach of leveraging existing data and multiplying voice data through speech synthesis and voice cloning to generate the necessary data for building and training speech recognition for Livonian.
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2024.iwclul-1.9
Volume:
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages
Month:
November
Year:
2024
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Helsinki, Finland
Editors:
Mika Hämäläinen, Flammie Pirinen, Melany Macias, Mario Crespo Avila
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IWCLUL
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SIGUR
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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76–80
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.iwclul-1.9
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Valts Ernštreits. 2024. Towards the speech recognition for Livonian. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages, pages 76–80, Helsinki, Finland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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