Dwipen Laskar

Robust Assamese Speech Recognition through Controlled Fine-Tuning of Whisper Models

Ganapati Das, Dwipen Laskar, Hasin Afzal Ahmed, Sanjib Kr Kalita, Kshirod Sarmah, Hem Chandra Das, et al.

Developing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for morphologically rich, low-resource languages such as Assamese is challenging due to insufficient annotated speech data. The pretrained Whisper model performs poorly on Assamese speech recognition tasks. This paper presents a contr…Read more