Mehadi Menon
2023
Pseudo-Labeling for Domain-Agnostic Bangla Automatic Speech Recognition
Rabindra Nath Nandi
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Mehadi Menon
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Tareq Muntasir
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Sagor Sarker
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Quazi Sarwar Muhtaseem
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Md. Tariqul Islam
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Shammur Chowdhury
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Firoj Alam
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2023)
One of the major challenges for developing automatic speech recognition (ASR) for low-resource languages is the limited access to labeled data with domain-specific variations. In this study, we propose a pseudo-labeling approach to develop a large-scale domain-agnostic ASR dataset. With the proposed methodology, we developed a 20k+ hours labeled Bangla speech dataset covering diverse topics, speaking styles, dialects, noisy environments, and conversational scenarios. We then exploited the developed corpus to design a conformer-based ASR system. We benchmarked the trained ASR with publicly available datasets and compared it with other available models. To investigate the efficacy, we designed and developed a human-annotated domain-agnostic test set composed of news, telephony, and conversational data among others. Our results demonstrate the efficacy of the model trained on psuedo-label data for the designed test-set along with publicly-available Bangla datasets. The experimental resources will be publicly available.https://github.com/hishab-nlp/Pseudo-Labeling-for-Domain-Agnostic-Bangla-ASR
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- Sagor Sarker 1
- Quazi Sarwar Muhtaseem 1
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