Hi! I’d like to add data for Norwegian speech recognition. Specifically to help with recognising dialects (how people actually speak). I’ve been collecting sentences. And have 500 so far. Sentences will need to be standardized and written in one form. That will be a huge problem. Infinitiv a/e Ev…

[image] odinho: The problem with number 2 is that it will be unclear to the speaker when they should speak as written, and when they should not. As an example “ to see ” is written “ å sjå ”. But if we have a rule of “say it like it’s written” for “å verta” and “å bli” (and similar pairs), it wi…

[image] mkohler: The sentences will be shown to the speaker as it is, there should be no translation whatsoever. IMHO the corpus data should just have enough of each dialect so the model would understand all different ways of saying something. Or am I missing something here? You are probably…

Thanks for the explanation! I’ll let @mhenretty chime in here :slight_smile:

Thanks for the thoughtful question @odinho , and for the discussion @mkohler ! [image] odinho: Though I guess doing solution 2 and putting some more complexity to the reader and verifier isn’t too bad and might be the best way overall. I am inclined to agree with you, but honestly I rely on lo…

[image] mhenretty: honestly I rely on local language experts like you to advise us It’s my mother tongue, but I’m far from an expert. I’ve asked some actual experts too. I’ll continue working on it, and keep collecting sentences.

From what I can see, so far there is only language-REGION when what is needed is language-REGION-Variant Or would even that be insufficient?

[image] Mittineague: From what I can see, so far there is only language-REGION when what is needed is language-REGION-Variant Or would even that be insufficient? We are deciding this on a case-by-case basis. The decision usually hinges upon how different regional dialects are, and especia…

Norwegian speech and its dialect and sentence problems

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mkohler (Michael Kohler) July 30, 2018, 5:36pm 4

Thanks for the explanation! I’ll let @mhenretty chime in here

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