Improvement in Automatic Speech Recognition of South Asian Accent Using Transfer Learning of DeepSpeech2

<table class="table-group" id="tab5"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Share (%)</td><td class="align_center">Accent</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">23</td><td class="align_center">United States English</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">9</td><td class="align_center">England English</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">4</td><td class="align_center">India and south Asia (India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">3</td><td class="align_center">Canadian English</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">3</td><td class="align_center">Australian English</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">1</td><td class="align_center">New Zealand English</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">1</td><td class="align_center">Southern African (South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">1</td><td class="align_center">Scottish English</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Percentage of different English accents in common voice dataset.</div>

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Table 5: Improvement in Automatic Speech Recognition of South Asian Accent Using Transfer Learning of DeepSpeech2 