New data, benchmark and baseline for L2 speaking assessment for low-resoure languages
Mikko Kurimo,
Yaroslav Getman,
Ekaterina Voskoboinik
et al.
Abstract:The development of large multilingual speech models provides the possibility to construct high-quality speech technology even for low-resource languages. In this paper, we present the speech data of L2 learners of Finnish and Finland Swedish that we have recently collected for training and evaluation of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaking assessment (ASA). It includes over 4000 recordings by over 300 students per language in short read-aloud and free-form tasks. The recordings have been manually tr… Show more
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