Bangla-WhisperDiar: Fine-Tuning Whisper and PyAnnote for Bangla Long-Form Speech Recognition and Speaker Diarization
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| author | Bhuiyan, Mohammed Aman Adib, Md Sazzad Hossain Bhuiyan, Samiul Basir Chakraborty, Amit Saswato, Aritra Islam Dhrubo, Ahmed Faizul Haque Khan, Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman |
| author_facet | Bhuiyan, Mohammed Aman Adib, Md Sazzad Hossain Bhuiyan, Samiul Basir Chakraborty, Amit Saswato, Aritra Islam Dhrubo, Ahmed Faizul Haque Khan, Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman |
| contents | Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and speaker diarization in Bangla remain challenging due to long form recordings, diverse acoustic conditions, and significant speaker variability. This work addresses these two core tasks in Bangla spoken language understanding by developing robust systems for long form ASR and speaker diarization. For ASR (Problem 1), we fine tune the tugstugi bengaliai regional asr whisper medium model on a custom-curated dataset of approximately 15,000 chunked and aligned Bangla audio segments, employing full weight training with extensive data augmentation including noise injection, reverb simulation, echo, clipping distortion, and pitch/time perturbation. For speaker diarization (Problem 2), we fine-tune the pyannote/segmentation-3.0 model using PyTorch Lightning on the competition annotated diarization dataset, swapping the fine-tuned segmentation backbone into the pyannote/speaker-diarization-community-1 pipeline while retaining the pretrained speaker embedding and clustering components. Our ASR system achieves a Word Error Rate (WER) of 0.2441, while our diarization system achieves a Diarization Error Rate (DER) of 0.2392, both evaluated on the test set, demonstrating notable improvements over the respective pretrained baselines. We describe our complete pipeline, including data preprocessing, text normalization, audio augmentation, training strategies, inference optimization, and post-processing for both tasks. |
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| spellingShingle | Bangla-WhisperDiar: Fine-Tuning Whisper and PyAnnote for Bangla Long-Form Speech Recognition and Speaker Diarization Bhuiyan, Mohammed Aman Adib, Md Sazzad Hossain Bhuiyan, Samiul Basir Chakraborty, Amit Saswato, Aritra Islam Dhrubo, Ahmed Faizul Haque Khan, Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Sound Artificial Intelligence Audio and Speech Processing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and speaker diarization in Bangla remain challenging due to long form recordings, diverse acoustic conditions, and significant speaker variability. This work addresses these two core tasks in Bangla spoken language understanding by developing robust systems for long form ASR and speaker diarization. For ASR (Problem 1), we fine tune the tugstugi bengaliai regional asr whisper medium model on a custom-curated dataset of approximately 15,000 chunked and aligned Bangla audio segments, employing full weight training with extensive data augmentation including noise injection, reverb simulation, echo, clipping distortion, and pitch/time perturbation. For speaker diarization (Problem 2), we fine-tune the pyannote/segmentation-3.0 model using PyTorch Lightning on the competition annotated diarization dataset, swapping the fine-tuned segmentation backbone into the pyannote/speaker-diarization-community-1 pipeline while retaining the pretrained speaker embedding and clustering components. Our ASR system achieves a Word Error Rate (WER) of 0.2441, while our diarization system achieves a Diarization Error Rate (DER) of 0.2392, both evaluated on the test set, demonstrating notable improvements over the respective pretrained baselines. We describe our complete pipeline, including data preprocessing, text normalization, audio augmentation, training strategies, inference optimization, and post-processing for both tasks. |
| title | Bangla-WhisperDiar: Fine-Tuning Whisper and PyAnnote for Bangla Long-Form Speech Recognition and Speaker Diarization |
| topic | Sound Artificial Intelligence Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08214 |