Hishab’s NLP team has researched on the development of domain-agnostic ASR (Artificial Speech Recognition) dataset and the research paper is accepted by EMNLP workshop.
Rabindranath Nandi (Senior NLP Engineer, Hishab), Mehadi Hasan (Senior NLP Engineer, Hishab), Tareq-Al-Muntasir (Head of NLP, Hishab), Sagor Sarker (NLP Engineer, Hishab), Quazi Sarwar Muhtaseem (Junior NLP Engineer, Hishab) & Md. Tariqul Islam (Machine Learning Engineer, Hishab) was working with Shammur Absar Chowdhury & Firoj Alam from Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Doha, Qatar to complete this research paper.
Addressing a critical bottleneck in the development of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for low-resource languages, a team of engineers at Hishab and QCRI has introduced a groundbreaking pseudo-labeling approach. This pioneering methodology has resulted in the creation of a large-scale, domain-agnostic ASR dataset, boasting over 20,000 hours of labeled Bangla speech.
Utilizing the extensive corpus, the team designed a conformer-based ASR system, leveraging cutting-edge technology to enhance accuracy and efficiency. The trained ASR system underwent rigorous benchmarking against publicly available datasets and human-annotated domain-agnostic test sets including telephony data, showcasing its prowess when compared to existing models in the field.
The research paper is publicly available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.03196.pdf
What is EMNLP?
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Process (EMNLP) is a leading conference in the area of natural language process and artificial intelligence.
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