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This paper addresses issues of modeling Karelian-Russian code-switching for automatic speech recognition, with a focus on intra-word code-switching. Due to grammatical differences between Karelian and Russian, and the lack of automatic translation tools for languages in question, standard augmentation methods relying on parallel translated text corpora are difficult to apply. To address these issues, we developed a set of rules specifically designed for generating words with intra-word code-switching, and then augmented the Karelian text by substituting random words with their corresponding generated counterparts. Besides that, we performed linear interpolation of the Karelian language model with the Russian one. We fine-tuned Wav2Vec2.0-large-uralic-voxpopuli-v2 on both Karelian and Russian speech data with the further integration of the developed language model into the system. An evaluation demonstrates significant accuracy improvement: compared to the baseline system without a language model, we achieved relative WER reductions of 11.3% on the development set and 16.6% on the test set.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpeech and Computer 27th International Conference, SPECOM 2025, Szeged, Hungary, October 13–15, 2025, Proceedings, Part II
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages104-117
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783032079589
DOIs
StatePublished - 2026
Externally publishedYes
Event27th International Conference on Speech and Computer - Szeged, Hungary, Szeged, Hungary
Duration: 13 Oct 2025 → 14 Oct 2025
Conference number: 27
https://specom.inf.u-szeged.hu/

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Volume16188
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference27th International Conference on Speech and Computer
Abbreviated titleSPECOM 2025
Country/TerritoryHungary
City Szeged
Period13/10/25 → 14/10/25
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    Research areas

  • Automatic Speech Recognition, Code-Switching, Language Modeling, Livvi-Karelian

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