Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

Radford et al., 2023, Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision (Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), PMLR 202)

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3.6 Language Identification

  1. Why was Whisper weak at language identification on Fleurs?
    Its training data covered only 82 of Fleurs’ 102 languages, capping accuracy at 80.4%; overall it reached 64.5% vs 77.7% for the supervised state of the art.

Source

  • Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Tao Xu, Greg Brockman, Christine McLeavey and Ilya Sutskever. 2023. Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), PMLR 202, pp. 28492–28518. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v202/radford23a.html