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Workshop: AI Heard That! ICML 2025 Workshop on Machine Learning for Audio

Bridging the Language Gap: Synthetic Voice Diversity via Latent Mixup for Equitable Speech Recognition

Wesley Bian · Xiaofeng Lin · Guang Cheng


Abstract:

Modern machine learning models for audio tasks often exhibit superior performance on English and other well-resourced languages, primarily due to the abundance of available training data. This disparity leads to an unfair performance gap for low-resource languages, where data collection is both challenging and costly. In this work, we introduce a novel data augmentation technique for speech corpora designed to mitigate this gap. Through comprehensive experiments, we demonstrate that our method significantly improves the performance of automatic speech recognition systems on low-resource languages. Furthermore, we show that our approach outperforms existing augmentation strategies, offering a practical solution for enhancing speech technology in underrepresented linguistic communities.Link to supplementary materials: https://limewire.com/d/1DaMN#AE2IAO6lKB

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