TY - GEN
T1 - Formosa Speech Recognition Challenge 2020 and Taiwanese across Taiwan Corpus
AU - Liao, Yuan Fu
AU - Chang, Chia Yu
AU - Tiun, Hak Khiam
AU - Su, Huang Lan
AU - Khoo, Hui Lu
AU - Tsay, Jane S.
AU - Tan, Le Kun
AU - Kang, Peter
AU - Thiann, Tsun Guan
AU - Iunn, Un Gian
AU - Yang, Jyh Her
AU - Liang, Chih Neng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/11/5
Y1 - 2020/11/5
N2 - Taiwanese (a.k.a. Taiwanese Hokkien, Hoklo, Taigi, Southern Min or Min-Nan) is an endangered language, because the domination of Mandarin, the number of Taiwanese speakers continues to drop, especially among the youth generations. In addressing this problem, a Taiwanese speech-enabled human-computer interface for supporting people's daily life is essential. Therefore, a Formosa Speech in the Wild (FSW) project was established to collect a large-scale Taiwanese speech across Taiwan (TAT) corpus to boost the development of Taiwanese speech recognition (TSR). A Formosa Speech Recognition Challenge 2020 (FSR-2020) was also hosted to promote the corpus as well as to evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art TSR systems. This paper briefly introduces TAT corpus and FSR-2020 challenge, presents the provided data profile, evaluation plan and reports experimental baseline results. A subset of TAT corpus, TAT-Vol1, is given away for free for all participants (non-commercial license), and its corresponding Kaldi baseline recipes have been published online. Experimental results have showed that the combination of TAT corpus and the baseline recipes is a good resource pack for TSR research and development.
AB - Taiwanese (a.k.a. Taiwanese Hokkien, Hoklo, Taigi, Southern Min or Min-Nan) is an endangered language, because the domination of Mandarin, the number of Taiwanese speakers continues to drop, especially among the youth generations. In addressing this problem, a Taiwanese speech-enabled human-computer interface for supporting people's daily life is essential. Therefore, a Formosa Speech in the Wild (FSW) project was established to collect a large-scale Taiwanese speech across Taiwan (TAT) corpus to boost the development of Taiwanese speech recognition (TSR). A Formosa Speech Recognition Challenge 2020 (FSR-2020) was also hosted to promote the corpus as well as to evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art TSR systems. This paper briefly introduces TAT corpus and FSR-2020 challenge, presents the provided data profile, evaluation plan and reports experimental baseline results. A subset of TAT corpus, TAT-Vol1, is given away for free for all participants (non-commercial license), and its corresponding Kaldi baseline recipes have been published online. Experimental results have showed that the combination of TAT corpus and the baseline recipes is a good resource pack for TSR research and development.
KW - Formosa Speech Recognition Challenge 2020
KW - Machine learning
KW - Taiwanese Speech Recognition
KW - Taiwanese across Taiwan Corpus
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U2 - 10.1109/O-COCOSDA50338.2020.9295019
DO - 10.1109/O-COCOSDA50338.2020.9295019
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85099540420
T3 - Proceedings of 2020 23rd Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-Ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, O-COCOSDA 2020
SP - 65
EP - 70
BT - Proceedings of 2020 23rd Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-Ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, O-COCOSDA 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 23rd Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-Ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, O-COCOSDA 2020
Y2 - 5 November 2020 through 7 November 2020
ER -