Yohan Karunanayake


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2019

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Transfer Learning Based Free-Form Speech Command Classification for Low-Resource Languages
Yohan Karunanayake | Uthayasanker Thayasivam | Surangika Ranathunga
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop

Current state-of-the-art speech-based user interfaces use data intense methodologies to recognize free-form speech commands. However, this is not viable for low-resource languages, which lack speech data. This restricts the usability of such interfaces to a limited number of languages. In this paper, we propose a methodology to develop a robust domain-specific speech command classification system for low-resource languages using speech data of a high-resource language. In this transfer learning-based approach, we used a Convolution Neural Network (CNN) to identify a fixed set of intents using an ASR-based character probability map. We were able to achieve significant results for Sinhala and Tamil datasets using an English based ASR, which attests the robustness of the proposed approach.