Massively Multilingual ASR: 50 Languages, 1 Model, 1 Billion Parameters
Year: 2020

We study training a single acoustic model for multiple languages with the aim of improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance on low-resource languages, and over-all simplifying deployment of ASR systems that support diverse languages. We perform an extensive benchmark on 51 languages, with varying amount of training data by language(from 100 hours to 1100 hours). We compare three variants of multilingual training from a single joint model without knowing the input language, to using