Automatic Transcription for Estonian Children’s Speech

Agnes Luhtaru, Rauno Jaaska, Karl Kruusamäe, Mark Fishel

TL;DR: Creating Children's speech recognition system for Estonian via fine-tuning large speech models

Abstract: We evaluate the impact of recent improvements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) on transcribing Estonian children’s speech. Our research focuses on fine-tuning large ASR models with a 10-hour Estonian children’s speech dataset to create accurate transcriptions. Our results show that large pre-trained models hold great potential when fine-tuned first with a more substantial Estonian adult speech corpus and then further trained with children’s speech.

Student Paper: Yes, the first author is a student