Enabling Interactive Transcription in an Indigenous Community
Éric Le Ferrand, Steven Bird, Laurent Besacier · 2020
We propose a novel transcription workflow which combines spoken term detection and humanin-the-loop, together with a pilot experiment.This work is grounded in an almost zero-resource scenario where only a few terms have so far been identified, involving two endangered languages.We show that in the early stages of transcription, when the available data is insufficient to train a robust ASR system, it is possible to take advantage of the transcription of a small number of isolated words in order to bootstrap the transcription of a speech collection.