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Code-Switching in Automatic Speech Recognition: The Issues and Future Directions

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posted on 2023-05-16, 08:48 authored by Mumtaz Begum Mustafa, Mansoor Ali Yusoof, Hasan Kahtan Al-AniHasan Kahtan Al-Ani, Ahmad Abdel Rahman Mahmoud Abushariah, Miss Laiha Mat Kiah, Hua Nong Ting, Saravanan Muthaiyah

 Code-switching (CS) in spoken language is where the speech has two or more languages within an utterance. It is an unsolved issue in automatic speech recognition (ASR) research as ASR needs to recognise speech in bilingual and multilingual settings, where the accuracy of ASR systems declines with CS due to pronunciation variation. There are very few reviews carried out on CS, with none conducted on bilingual and multilingual CS ASR systems. This study investigates the importance of CS in bilingual and multilingual speech recognition systems. To meet the objective of this study, two research questions were formulated, which cover both the current issues and the direction of the research. Our review focuses on databases, acoustic and language modelling, and evaluation metrics. Using selected keywords, this research has identified 274 papers and selected 42 experimental papers for review, of which 24 (representing 57%) have discussed CS, while the rest look at multilingual ASR research. The selected papers cover many well-resourced and under-resourced languages, and novel techniques to manage CS in ASR systems, which are mapping, combining and merging the phone sets of the languages experimented with in the research. Our review also examines the performance of those methods. This review found a significant variation in the performance of CS in terms of word error rates, indicating an inconsistency in the ability of ASRs to handle CS. In the conclusion, we suggest several future directions that address the issues identified in this review. 

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Applied Sciences

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MDPI

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Mustafa, Mumtaz Begum, Mansoor Ali Yusoof, Hasan Kahtan Khalaf, Ahmad Abdel Rahman Mahmoud Abushariah, Miss Laiha Mat Kiah, Hua Nong Ting, and Saravanan Muthaiyah. (2022) 'Code-Switching in Automatic Speech Recognition: The Issues and Future Directions', Applied Sciences 12, no. 19: 9541. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12199541

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2076-3417

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  • Cardiff School of Technologies

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Hasan Kahtan Al-Ani Hasan Kahtan Khalaf

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