Abstract
We summarize the accomplishments of a multi-disciplinary workshop exploring the computational and scientific issues surrounding zero resource (unsupervised) speech technologies and related models of early language acquisition. Centered around the tasks of phonetic and lexical discovery, we consider unified evaluation metrics, present two new approaches for improving speaker independence in the absence of supervision, and evaluate the application of Bayesian word segmentation algorithms to automatic subword unit tokenizations. Finally, we present two strategies for integrating zero resource techniques into supervised settings, demonstrating the potential of unsupervised methods to improve mainstream technologies
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013 IEEE International Conference on |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
Pages | 8111-8115 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4799-0356-6 |
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Publication status | Published - 2013 |