The North System for Formosa Speech Recognition Challenge 2023

TL;DR

This paper introduces the North system designed for Taiwanese Hakka speech recognition, detailing data collection, model architecture, and hardware, with a public demonstration available online.

Contribution

It presents a comprehensive system for Taiwanese Hakka speech recognition, including data handling, model design, and deployment details, advancing language-specific ASR technology.

Findings

System achieves automatic word/syllable recognition for Taiwanese Hakka

Details on training data acquisition and model architecture provided

System demonstration is publicly accessible

Abstract

This report provides a concise overview of the proposed North system, which aims to achieve automatic word/syllable recognition for Taiwanese Hakka (Sixian). The report outlines three key components of the system: the acquisition, composition, and utilization of the training data; the architecture of the model; and the hardware specifications and operational statistics. The demonstration of the system has been made public at https://asrvm.iis.sinica.edu.tw/hakka_sixian.