Alex Waibel

Subword and Crossword Units for CTC Acoustic Models

2018

This paper proposes a novel approach to create an unit set for CTC based speech recognition systems. By using Byte Pair Encoding we learn an unit set of an arbitrary size on a given training …

Active Learning for Massively Parallel Translation of Constrained Text into Low Resource Languages

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We translate a closed text that is known in advance and available in many languages into a new and severely low resource language. Most human translation efforts adopt a portion-based approach to translate consecutive pages/chapters …