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This paper proposes a cross-lingual romanization ecosystem for Sinitic languages, develops specific schemes for Mandarin and Cantonese, and shows improved performance in speech-to-romanization tasks compared to baseline methods.
Speko is a voice-based tool that integrates with OpenRouter, recently launched on Product Hunt for voice interactions.
Microsoft Research presents the Paza Speech Playbook, an interactive guide for building robust speech technologies for low-resource and multilingual languages, covering data collection, model training, deployment, and evaluation. The walkthrough video introduces the playbook and demonstrates how to apply proven practices.
This paper proposes two hybrid continual learning methods—Replay Augmented Elastic Weight Consolidation and Constraint Guided Knowledge Distillation—to adapt pretrained speech models for identifying low-resource Australian Aboriginal languages while mitigating catastrophic forgetting.