Ziyuan Wang


2025

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GigaSpeech 2: An Evolving, Large-Scale and Multi-domain ASR Corpus for Low-Resource Languages with Automated Crawling, Transcription and Refinement
Yifan Yang | Zheshu Song | Jianheng Zhuo | Mingyu Cui | Jinpeng Li | Bo Yang | Yexing Du | Ziyang Ma | Xunying Liu | Ziyuan Wang | Ke Li | Shuai Fan | Kai Yu | Wei-Qiang Zhang | Guoguo Chen | Xie Chen
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

The evolution of speech technology has been spurred by the rapid increase in dataset sizes. Traditional speech models generally depend on a large amount of labeled training data, which is scarce for low-resource languages. This paper presents GigaSpeech 2, a large-scale, multi-domain, multilingual speech recognition corpus. It is designed for low-resource languages and does not rely on paired speech and text data. GigaSpeech 2 comprises about 30,000 hours of automatically transcribed speech, including Thai, Indonesian, and Vietnamese, gathered from unlabeled YouTube videos. We also introduce an automated pipeline for data crawling, transcription, and label refinement. Specifically, this pipeline involves Whisper for initial transcription, MMS for forced alignment, and multi-dimensional filtering for data quality assurance. A modified Noisy Student Training is developed to further refine flawed pseudo labels iteratively, thereby enhancing model performance. Experimental results on our manually transcribed evaluation set and two public test sets from Common Voice and FLEURS confirm our corpus’s high quality and broad applicability. Notably, ASR models trained on GigaSpeech 2 can reduce the word error rate for Thai, Indonesian, and Vietnamese on our challenging and realistic YouTube test set by 25% to 40% compared to Whisper large-v3, with merely 10% model parameters. Furthermore, our ASR models trained on GigaSpeech 2 yield superior performance compared to commercial services. We hope that our newly introduced corpus and pipeline will open a new avenue for low-resource speech recognition and significantly facilitate research in this area.

2012

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The SDL Language Weaver Systems in the WMT12 Quality Estimation Shared Task
Radu Soricut | Nguyen Bach | Ziyuan Wang
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation

2011

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Minimum Imputed-Risk: Unsupervised Discriminative Training for Machine Translation
Zhifei Li | Ziyuan Wang | Jason Eisner | Sanjeev Khudanpur | Brian Roark
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2010

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Unsupervised Discriminative Language Model Training for Machine Translation using Simulated Confusion Sets
Zhifei Li | Ziyuan Wang | Sanjeev Khudanpur | Jason Eisner
Coling 2010: Posters

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Joshua 2.0: A Toolkit for Parsing-Based Machine Translation with Syntax, Semirings, Discriminative Training and Other Goodies
Zhifei Li | Chris Callison-Burch | Chris Dyer | Juri Ganitkevitch | Ann Irvine | Sanjeev Khudanpur | Lane Schwartz | Wren Thornton | Ziyuan Wang | Jonathan Weese | Omar Zaidan
Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR