Latent Softmax for Data-Efficient Phoneme-Based Multilingual ASR Across Tonal and Non-Tonal Languages
Phoneme-based multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) can share acoustic evidence across languages more directly than language-specific subword modeling. When tonal and non-tonal languages are jointly trained, however, their supervision granularity does not match: tonal languages annotate tone-marked vowels, wh...