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

Bharathi B, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Sripriya N, Rajeswari Natarajan, Suhasini S


Abstract
The overview of the shared task on speech recognition for vulnerable individuals in Tamil (LT-EDI-2024) is described in this paper. The work comes with a Tamil dataset that was gath- ered from elderly individuals who identify as male, female, or transgender. The audio sam- ples were taken in public places such as marketplaces, vegetable shops, hospitals, etc. The training phase and the testing phase are when the dataset is made available. The task required of the participants was to handle audio signals using various models and techniques, and then turn in their results as transcriptions of the pro- vided test samples. The participant’s results were assessed using WER (Word Error Rate). The transformer-based approach was employed by the participants to achieve automatic voice recognition. This overview paper discusses the findings and various pre-trained transformer- based models that the participants employed.
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2024.ltedi-1.12
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion
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March
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2024
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St. Julian's, Malta
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Bharathi B, Paul Buitelaar, Thenmozhi Durairaj, György Kovács, Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras
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LTEDI | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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133–138
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Bharathi B, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Sripriya N, Rajeswari Natarajan, and Suhasini S. 2024. Overview of the Third Shared Task on Speech Recognition for Vulnerable Individuals in Tamil. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, pages 133–138, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Overview of the Third Shared Task on Speech Recognition for Vulnerable Individuals in Tamil (B et al., LTEDI-WS 2024)
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