Search Results for author: Haruko Ishikawa

Found 2 papers, 1 papers with code

Lenient Evaluation of Japanese Speech Recognition: Modeling Naturally Occurring Spelling Inconsistency

no code implementations7 Jun 2023 Shigeki Karita, Richard Sproat, Haruko Ishikawa

Word error rate (WER) and character error rate (CER) are standard metrics in Speech Recognition (ASR), but one problem has always been alternative spellings: If one's system transcribes adviser whereas the ground truth has advisor, this will count as an error even though the two spellings really represent the same word.

Machine Translation speech-recognition +2

Helpful Neighbors: Leveraging Neighbors in Geographic Feature Pronunciation

1 code implementation18 Oct 2022 Llion Jones, Richard Sproat, Haruko Ishikawa, Alexander Gutkin

If one sees the place name Houston Mercer Dog Run in New York, how does one know how to pronounce it?

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