Phoneme Error Rate

Language documentation begins by gather- ing speech. Manual or automatic transcrip- tion at the word level is typically not possi- ble because of the absence of an orthography or prior …...

AbstractTranscription is often reported as the bottleneck in endangered language documentation, requiring large efforts from scarce speakers and transcribers. In general, automatic speech recognition (ASR) can be accurate enough to …...

AbstractMost comparative datasets of Chinese varieties are not digital; however, Wiktionary includes a wealth of transcriptions of words from these varieties. The usefulness of these data is limited by the …...