Performance Analysis of Speech Encoders for Low-Resource SLU and ASR in Tunisian Dialect

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العنوان: Performance Analysis of Speech Encoders for Low-Resource SLU and ASR in Tunisian Dialect
المؤلفون: Mdhaffar, Salima, Elleuch, Haroun, Bougares, Fethi, Estève, Yannick
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Sound, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing
الوصف: Speech encoders pretrained through self-supervised learning (SSL) have demonstrated remarkable performance in various downstream tasks, including Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). For instance, fine-tuning SSL models for such tasks has shown significant potential, leading to improvements in the SOTA performance across challenging datasets. In contrast to existing research, this paper contributes by comparing the effectiveness of SSL approaches in the context of (i) the low-resource spoken Tunisian Arabic dialect and (ii) its combination with a low-resource SLU and ASR scenario, where only a few semantic annotations are available for fine-tuning. We conduct experiments using many SSL speech encoders on the TARIC-SLU dataset. We use speech encoders that were pre-trained on either monolingual or multilingual speech data. Some of them have also been refined without in-domain nor Tunisian data through multimodal supervised teacher-student paradigm. This study yields numerous significant findings that we are discussing in this paper.
Comment: Accepted in ArabicNLP 2024
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04533
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2407.04533
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv