2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

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Paper IDSPE-55.5
Paper Title PHONE DISTRIBUTION ESTIMATION FOR LOW RESOURCE LANGUAGES
Authors Xinjian Li, Juncheng Li, Jiali Yao, Alan Black, Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
SessionSPE-55: Language Identification and Low Resource Speech Recognition
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Friday, 11 June, 14:00 - 14:45
Presentation Time:Friday, 11 June, 14:00 - 14:45
Presentation Poster
Topic Speech Processing: [SPE-MULT] Multilingual Recognition and Identification
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Abstract Phones are critical components in various computational linguistic fields, for example, phone distributions could be helpful in speech recognition and speech synthesis. Traditional approaches to estimate phone distributions typically involve G2P systems which are either manually designed by linguists or trained on large datasets. These prohibitive requirements make research on low resource languages extremely challenging. In this work, we propose a novel approach to estimate phone distributions by only requiring raw audio datasets: We first estimate the phone ranks by combining language-independent recognition results and Learning to Rank results. Next, we approximate the distribution with Expectation-Maximization by fitting Yule distribution. The results on 7 languages show the joint-model has better performance in both ranking estimation and distribution estimation tasks.