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| author | Pritzen, Julia Gref, Michael Zühlke, Dietlind Schmidt, Christoph |
| author_facet | Pritzen, Julia Gref, Michael Zühlke, Dietlind Schmidt, Christoph |
| contents | Anglicisms are a challenge in German speech recognition. Due to their irregular pronunciation compared to native German words, automatically generated pronunciation dictionaries often include faulty phoneme sequences for Anglicisms. In this work, we propose a multitask sequence-to-sequence approach for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion to improve the phonetization of Anglicisms. We extended a grapheme-to-phoneme model with a classifier to distinguish Anglicisms from native German words. With this approach, the model learns to generate pronunciations differently depending on the classification result. We used our model to create supplementary Anglicism pronunciation dictionaries that are added to an existing German speech recognition model. Tested on a dedicated Anglicism evaluation set, we improved the recognition of Anglicisms compared to a baseline model, reducing the word error rate by 1 % and the Anglicism error rate by 3 %. We show that multitask learning can help solving the challenge of Anglicisms in German speech recognition. |
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| spellingShingle | Multitask Learning for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion of Anglicisms in German Speech Recognition Pritzen, Julia Gref, Michael Zühlke, Dietlind Schmidt, Christoph Computation and Language Sound Audio and Speech Processing Anglicisms are a challenge in German speech recognition. Due to their irregular pronunciation compared to native German words, automatically generated pronunciation dictionaries often include faulty phoneme sequences for Anglicisms. In this work, we propose a multitask sequence-to-sequence approach for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion to improve the phonetization of Anglicisms. We extended a grapheme-to-phoneme model with a classifier to distinguish Anglicisms from native German words. With this approach, the model learns to generate pronunciations differently depending on the classification result. We used our model to create supplementary Anglicism pronunciation dictionaries that are added to an existing German speech recognition model. Tested on a dedicated Anglicism evaluation set, we improved the recognition of Anglicisms compared to a baseline model, reducing the word error rate by 1 % and the Anglicism error rate by 3 %. We show that multitask learning can help solving the challenge of Anglicisms in German speech recognition. |
| title | Multitask Learning for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion of Anglicisms in German Speech Recognition |
| topic | Computation and Language Sound Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12708 |