Synt++: Utilizing Imperfect Synthetic Data to Improve Speech Recognition
Journal: arXiv (Cornell University)
Year: 2021

With recent advances in speech synthesis, synthetic data is becoming a viable alternative to real data for training speech recognition models. However, machine learning with synthetic data is not trivial due to the gap between the synthetic and the real data distributions. Synthetic datasets may contain artifacts that do not exist in real data such as structured noise, content errors, or unrealistic speaking styles. Moreover, the synthesis process may introduce a bias due to uneven sampling of t