Title
Formosa Speech Recognition Challenge 2020 and Taiwanese Across Taiwan Corpus
Abstract
Taiwanese (a.k.a. Taiwanese Hokkien, Hoklo, Taigi, Southern Min or Min-Nan) is an endangered language, because the domination of Mandarin, the number of Taiwanese speakers continues to drop, especially among the youth generations. In addressing this problem, a Taiwanese speech-enabled human-computer interface for supporting people's daily life is essential. Therefore, a Formosa Speech in the Wild (FSW) project was established to collect a large-scale Taiwanese speech across Taiwan (TAT) corpus to boost the development of Taiwanese speech recognition (TSR). A Formosa Speech Recognition Challenge 2020 (FSR-2020) was also hosted to promote the corpus as well as to evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art TSR systems. This paper briefly introduces TAT corpus and FSR-2020 challenge, presents the provided data profile, evaluation plan and reports experimental baseline results. A subset of TAT corpus, TAT-Vol1, is given away for free for all participants (non-commercial license), and its corresponding Kaldi baseline recipes have been published online. Experimental results have showed that the combination of TAT corpus and the baseline recipes is a good resource pack for TSR research and development.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/O-COCOSDA50338.2020.9295019
2020 23rd Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (O-COCOSDA)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Taiwanese across Taiwan Corpus,Formosa Speech Recognition Challenge 2020,Taiwanese Speech Recognition,Machine learning
Conference
2163-3479
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-9897-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuan-Fu Liao100.34
Chia-Yu Chang200.34
Hak-Khiam Tiun300.34
Huang-Lan Su400.34
Hui-Lu Khoo500.34
Jane S. Tsay600.34
Le-Kun Tan700.34
Peter Kang800.34
Tsun-guan Thiann900.34
Un-Gian Iunn1000.34
Jyh-Her Yang1100.34
Chih-Neng Liang1200.34