Abstract

Uyghur is a minority language, and its resources for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) research are always insufficient. THUYG-20 is currently the only open-sourced dataset of Uyghur speeches. State-of-the-art results of its clean and noiseless speech test task haven't been updated since the first release, which shows a big gap in the development of ASR between mainstream languages and Uyghur. In this paper, we try to bridge the gap by ultimately optimizing the ASR systems, and by developing a morpheme-based decoder, MLDG-Decoder (Morpheme Lattice Dynamically Generating Decoder for Uyghur DNN-HMM systems), which has long been missing. We have open-sourced the decoder. The MLDG-Decoder employs an algorithm, named as "on-the-fly composition with FEBABOS", to allow the back-off states and transitions to play the role of a relay station in on-the-fly composition. The algorithm empowers the dynamically generated graph to constrain the morpheme sequences in the lattices as effectively as th

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