AnnoTheia: A Semi-Automatic Annotation Toolkit for Audio-Visual Speech Technologies

arXiv:2402.13152v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: More than 7,000 known languages are spoken around the world. However, due to the lack of annotated resources, only a small fraction of them are currently covered by speech technologies. Albeit self-supervised speech representations, recent massive speech corpora collections, as well as the organization of challenges, have alleviated this inequality, most studies are mainly benchmarked on English. This situation is aggravated when tasks involving both acoustic and visual speech modalities are addressed. In order to …

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