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Making automatic speech recognition work on large files with Wav2Vec2 in ๐Ÿค— Transformers

arXiv AI
Jun 19

A Comparative Study of Pretrained Transformer Models for Quranic ASR: Speech Representations, Label Formats, and Dataset Composition

arXiv:2606. 19747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quran Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) aims to convert Quranic recitation into text, enabling applications such as aided memorisation tools and Quranic search engines.

By Nabil Mosharraf Hossain (Greentech Apps Foundation, United Kingdom), Riasat Islam (Greentech Apps Foundation, United Kingdom, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom), Unaizah Obaidellah (University of Malaya, Malaysia)
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Enabling automatic transcription of child-centered audio recordings from real-world environments

The paper presents a method to automatically identify utterances in child-centered daylong audio recordings that can be reliably transcribed by modern ASR systems, enabling accurate transcription of a substantial portion of the speech. On four English corpora, the approach achieves a median WER of 0% and a mean WER of 16% when transcribing 30% of the total speech, compared to a median WER of 52% when transcribing all speech. Word frequency distributions from the automatic transcripts correlate strongly with manual annotations (rโ€ฏ=โ€ฏ0.94 overall, rโ€ฏ=โ€ฏ0.99 for frequent words).

By Daniil Kocharov, Azarias Galama, Okko R\"as\"anen