Exploring Native and Non-Native English Child Speech Recognition With Whisper

Modern end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems struggle to recognise children’s speech. This challenge is due to the high acoustic variability in children’s voices and the scarcity of child speech training data, particularly for accented or low-resource languages....

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Main Authors: Rishabh Jain, Andrei Barcovschi, Mariam Yahayah Yiwere, Peter Corcoran, Horia Cucu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2024-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10474352/