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| author | Shankar, Lavanya Perera, Leibny Paola Garcia |
| author_facet | Shankar, Lavanya Perera, Leibny Paola Garcia |
| contents | Code-switching and language identification in child-directed scenarios present significant challenges, particularly in bilingual environments. This paper addresses this challenge by using Zipformer to handle the nuances of speech, which contains two imbalanced languages, Mandarin and English, in an utterance. This work demonstrates that the internal layers of the Zipformer effectively encode the language characteristics, which can be leveraged in language identification. We present the selection methodology of the inner layers to extract the embeddings and make a comparison with different back-ends. Our analysis shows that Zipformer is robust across these backends. Our approach effectively handles imbalanced data, achieving a Balanced Accuracy (BAC) of 81.89%, a 15.47% improvement over the language identification baseline. These findings highlight the potential of the transformer encoder architecture model in real scenarios. |
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| spellingShingle | Leveraging Zipformer Model for Effective Language Identification in Code-Switched Child-Directed Speech Shankar, Lavanya Perera, Leibny Paola Garcia Computation and Language Sound Code-switching and language identification in child-directed scenarios present significant challenges, particularly in bilingual environments. This paper addresses this challenge by using Zipformer to handle the nuances of speech, which contains two imbalanced languages, Mandarin and English, in an utterance. This work demonstrates that the internal layers of the Zipformer effectively encode the language characteristics, which can be leveraged in language identification. We present the selection methodology of the inner layers to extract the embeddings and make a comparison with different back-ends. Our analysis shows that Zipformer is robust across these backends. Our approach effectively handles imbalanced data, achieving a Balanced Accuracy (BAC) of 81.89%, a 15.47% improvement over the language identification baseline. These findings highlight the potential of the transformer encoder architecture model in real scenarios. |
| title | Leveraging Zipformer Model for Effective Language Identification in Code-Switched Child-Directed Speech |
| topic | Computation and Language Sound |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09430 |