A Brief History of ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition
This moment has been a long time coming. The technology behind speech recognition has been in development for over half a century, going through several periods…
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Notes from the work
Ramblings about AI, speech, and language: how the systems actually work, what breaks once they meet real data, and the occasional detour into how we got here. Written while figuring things out, so some of it is a lab notebook and some of it is an argument.
Arabic Speech Recognition Project (Red Hen Lab - GSoC 2018)
In this page we will summarize the components of the Arabic ASR project, including the training process and the pipeline, and the pipeline which takes as input a…
Arabic ASR and DI (Red Hen Lab - GSoC 2018)
In this post, we will summarize the work done on Arabic speech recognition and Arabic dialect identification projects for RedHenLab as part of GSoC 2018. Each of…
Arabic Dialect Identification Project (Red Hen Lab - GSoC 2018)
In this page, we will summarize the contents of the Arabic dialect identification project. We will discuss the training process and the transformations applied…
Weeks 9 & 10: Dialect Identification Base
In Weeks 9 and 10, I continued to work on the speech recognition system, while working in parallel in the dialect identification task.
Week 8: Gale Arabic on Case HPC
It's week 8 of my GSoC project with Red Hen Lab. As mentioned in an earlier post, running the system on Case HPC is one of the main goals of this GSoC project. I…
Week 7 (Cont.): Arabic Speech Data
Some licensing issues related to the MGB-2 data set resulted in the data not being available for a while (I wish I will be able to work with it before the end of…
Week 7: Dialect Identification
Sixth week coding my Google Summer of Code project with Red Hen Lab. I decided to use the time to go into the dialect identification task while the training…
Week 5: Case HPC
Hello! This is my fifth week coding my Google Summer of Code project with Red Hen Lab. One of the goals of this project is to implement the code on Case HPC,…
Week 4: Acoustic Modeling
Fourth week coding my Google Summer of Code project with Red Hen Lab. Obtaining the data turned out to be a bit tricker than I thought (due to some license…
Week 1: Language Modeling
This is my first week coding my Google Summer of Code project with Red Hen Lab. My first task will be preparing the language model to use for decoding.
Spending this summer in GSoC with Red Hen Lab
I am thrilled to announce that I will be participating in GSoC this year with Red Hen Lab. My mentors for this project will include Professor Mark Turner and…