Fact · Languages and accents
Shin and colleagues describe Russian as a challenging language for automatic speech recognition because of its rich morphology.
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In the source's own words
“Russian is a challenging language for automatic speech recognition systems due to its rich morphology.”
Maximum Entropy Language Modeling for Russian ASR, Evgeniy Shin et al., Proceedings of IWSLT 2013, 2013, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- Inflection changes word endings, so one stem can appear in many forms that a recognizer must choose between.
- What it does not show
- A 2013 paper. The claim describes the language, and it still applies, but the systems have changed.