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Automatic Speech Recognition for low-resource languages using Wav2Vec2: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as an example of a low-resource language
Dalarna University, School of Information and Engineering.
2021 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

The need for fully automatic translation at DigitalTolk, a Stockholm-based company providing translation services, leads to exploring Automatic Speech Recognition as a first step for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Facebook AI recently released a second version of its Wav2Vec models, dubbed Wav2Vec 2.0, which uses deep neural networks and provides several English pretrained models along with a multilingual model trained in 53 different languages, referred to as the Cross-Lingual Speech Representation (XLSR-53). The small English and the XLSR-53 pretrained models are tested, and the results stemming from them discussed, with the Arabic data from Mozilla Common Voice. In this research, the small model did not yield any results and may have needed more unlabelled data to train whereas the large model proved to be successful in predicting the audio recordings in Arabic and a Word Error Rate of 24.40% was achieved, an unprecedented result. The small model turned out to be not suitable for training especially on languages other than English and where the unlabelled data is not enough. On the other hand, the large model gave very promising results despite the low amount of data. The large model should be the model of choice for any future training that needs to be done on low resource languages such as Arabic.

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2021.
Keywords [en]
Automatic Speech Recognition; Facebook Wav2Vec; Mozilla Common Voice; Low-Resource Language
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Computer Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-37702OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-37702DiVA, id: diva2:1579121
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Microdata Analysis
Available from: 2021-07-08 Created: 2021-07-08 Last updated: 2025-10-09

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