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| author | Bian, Wesley Lin, Xiaofeng Cheng, Guang |
| author_facet | Bian, Wesley Lin, Xiaofeng Cheng, Guang |
| contents | Modern machine learning models for audio tasks often exhibit superior performance on English and other well-resourced languages, primarily due to the abundance of available training data. This disparity leads to an unfair performance gap for low-resource languages, where data collection is both challenging and costly. In this work, we introduce a novel data augmentation technique for speech corpora designed to mitigate this gap. Through comprehensive experiments, we demonstrate that our method significantly improves the performance of automatic speech recognition systems on low-resource languages. Furthermore, we show that our approach outperforms existing augmentation strategies, offering a practical solution for enhancing speech technology in underrepresented linguistic communities. |
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| spellingShingle | Bridging the Language Gap: Synthetic Voice Diversity via Latent Mixup for Equitable Speech Recognition Bian, Wesley Lin, Xiaofeng Cheng, Guang Computation and Language Modern machine learning models for audio tasks often exhibit superior performance on English and other well-resourced languages, primarily due to the abundance of available training data. This disparity leads to an unfair performance gap for low-resource languages, where data collection is both challenging and costly. In this work, we introduce a novel data augmentation technique for speech corpora designed to mitigate this gap. Through comprehensive experiments, we demonstrate that our method significantly improves the performance of automatic speech recognition systems on low-resource languages. Furthermore, we show that our approach outperforms existing augmentation strategies, offering a practical solution for enhancing speech technology in underrepresented linguistic communities. |
| title | Bridging the Language Gap: Synthetic Voice Diversity via Latent Mixup for Equitable Speech Recognition |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20534 |