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license: mit
language:
- zh
pipeline_tag: image-to-text
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# Target: Convert Scanned Images of IPA symbols to Pinyin
Scanned images of IPA phonetic symbols for Chengdunese (成都话) in The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects (現代漢語方言大詞典).

# Training and Test Set
* 2,553 images of IPA phonetic symbols generated from Pinyin pronunciations found in Sichuanese Dialect Dictionary (四川方言词典 教你一口地道的四川话) and the word list of the Shupin (蜀拼) input method.
* 80/20 split on train/test

# Results
* Trained for 180 steps with a batch size of 32
* Final Character Error Rate of 0.795% on test set
* TODO: label part of the scanned images to see if model generalizes on target task