Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Nemotron for Saudi Arabic Dialects, with a Path to Other Languages
Automatic speech recognition must handle how people actually speak, not only the languages and styles that dominate pretraining data.
Key points
- Regional dialects and local recording conditions are often underrepresented, so a multilingual model that performs well on broad benchmarks may still fall short in deployment.
- A model may recognize Modern Standard Arabic or...
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- [1]Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Nemotron for Saudi Arabic Dialects, with a Path to Other LanguagesNVIDIA Technical Blog · Oct 1, 05:00 AM
Automatic speech recognition must handle how people actually speak, not only the languages and styles that dominate pretraining data.
Regional dialects and local recording conditions are often underrepresented, so a multilingual model that performs well on broad benchmarks may still fall short in deployment.
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