Dialect/Accent Classification Using Unrestricted Audio
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study addresses novel advances in English dialect/accent classification. A word-based modeling technique is proposed that is shown to outperform a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR)-based system with significantly less computational costs. The new algorithm, which is named Word-based Dialect Classification (WDC), converts the text-independent decision problem into a text-dependent decision problem and produces multiple combination decisions at the word level rather than making a single decision at the utterance level. The basic WDC algorithm also provides options for further modeling and decision strategy improvement. Two sets of classifiers are employed for WDC: a word classifier D <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">W(k)</sub> and an utterance classifier D <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">u</sub> . D <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">W(k)</sub> is boosted via the AdaBoost algorithm directly in the probability space instead of the traditional feature space. D <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">u</sub> is boosted via the dialect dependency information of the words. For a small training corpus, it is difficult to obtain a robust statistical model for each word and each dialect. Therefore, a context adapted training (CAT) algorithm is formulated, which adapts the universal phoneme Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) to dialect-dependent word hidden Markov models (HMMs) via linear regression. Three separate dialect corpora are used in the evaluations that include the Wall Street Journal (American and British English), NATO N4 (British, Canadian, Dutch, and German accent English), and IViE (eight British dialects). Significant improvement in dialect classification is achieved for all corpora tested
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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