Hearing voices at the National Library -- a speech corpus and acoustic model for the Swedish language. (arXiv:2205.03026v1 [cs.CL])

This paper explains our work in developing new acoustic models for automated
speech recognition (ASR) at KBLab, the infrastructure for data-driven research
at the National Library of Sweden (KB). We evaluate different approaches for a
viable speech-to-text pipeline for audiovisual resources in Swedish, using the
wav2vec 2.0 architecture in combination with speech corpuses created from KB's
collections. These approaches include pretraining an acoustic model for Swedish
from the ground up, and fine-tuning existing monolingual and multilingual
models. The collections-based corpuses …

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