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"abstract": "This paper describes three open access Yolox\u00f3chitl Mixtec corpora and presents the results and implications of end-to-end automatic speech recognition for endangered language documentation. Two issues are addressed. First, the advantage for ASR accuracy of targeting informational (BPE) units in addition to, or in substitution of, linguistic units (word, morpheme, morae) and then using ROVER for system combination. BPE units consistently outperform linguistic units although the best results are obtained by system combination of different BPE targets. Second, a case is made that for endangered language documentation, ASR contributions should be evaluated according to extrinsic criteria (e.g., positive impact on downstream tasks) and not simply intrinsic metrics (e.g., CER and WER). The extrinsic metric chosen is the level of reduction in the human effort needed to produce high-quality transcriptions for permanent archiving.",
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"text": "This paper describes three open access Yolox\u00f3chitl Mixtec corpora and presents the results and implications of end-to-end automatic speech recognition for endangered language documentation. Two issues are addressed. First, the advantage for ASR accuracy of targeting informational (BPE) units in addition to, or in substitution of, linguistic units (word, morpheme, morae) and then using ROVER for system combination. BPE units consistently outperform linguistic units although the best results are obtained by system combination of different BPE targets. Second, a case is made that for endangered language documentation, ASR contributions should be evaluated according to extrinsic criteria (e.g., positive impact on downstream tasks) and not simply intrinsic metrics (e.g., CER and WER). The extrinsic metric chosen is the level of reduction in the human effort needed to produce high-quality transcriptions for permanent archiving.",
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"text": "In 1991 the Linguistic Society of America held a symposium entitled \"Endangered Languages and their Preservation\"; in 1992 Hale et al. (1992) published a seminal article on endangered languages in Language, the LSA's flagship journal. , Himmelmann (1998 argued for the development of documentary linguistics as an endeavor separate from and complementary to descriptive linguistics. By the early years of the present millennium, infrastructure efforts were being developed: metadata standards and best practices for archiving (Bird and Simons, 2003) ; tools for lexicography and corpus developments such as Shoebox, Transcriber (Barras et al., 1998) , and ELAN (Wittenburg et al., 2006) , and financial support for endangered language documentation (the Volkswagen Foundation, the NSF Documenting Endangered Language Program, and the SOAS Endangered Language Documentation Programme). Recent retrospectives on the impact of Hale et al. (1992) and Himmelmann (1998) have been published by Seifart et al. (2018) and McDonnell et al. (2018) . Within the last decade, the National Science Foundation supported a series of three workshops, under the acronym AARDVARC (Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Audio and Video Resources Community) to bring together field linguists working on endangered languages and computational linguists working on automatic annotation-particularly automatic speech recognition (ASR)-to address the impact of what has been called the \"transcription bottleneck\" (Whalen and Damir, 2012) . Interest in applying machine learning to endangered language documentation is also manifested in four biennial workshops on this topic, the first in 2014 (Good et al., 2021) . Finally, articles directly referencing ASR of endangered languages have become increasingly common over the last five years (Adams et al., , 2020 \u0106avar et al., 2016; Foley et al., 2018 Foley et al., , 2019 Gupta and Boulianne, 2020; Michaud et al., 2018; Mitra et al., 2016; Shi et al., 2021) .",
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"text": "This article continues work on Yolox\u00f3chitl Mixtec ASR (Mitra et al., 2016; Shi et al., 2021) . The most recent efforts (2020 and 2021) have adopted the ESPNet toolkit for end-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E ASR). This approach has proven to be very efficient in terms of time needed to develop the ASR recipe (Shi et al., 2021) and in yielding ASR hypotheses of an accuracy capable of significantly reducing the extent of human effort needed to finalize accurate transcribed audio for permanent archiving as here demonstrated. Section 2 discusses the Yolox\u00f3chitl Mixtec corpora, and Section 3 explores the general goals of EL documentation. Section 4 reviews the E2E ASR and corresponding results using ESPNet. The conclusion is offered in Section 5.",
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"text": "A second YMC corpus (YMC-FB; for 'field botany') was developed during ethno-botanical fieldwork. Kenia Velasco Guti\u00e9rrez (a Spanish-speaking botanist) and Esteban Guadalupe Sierra (a native speaker from Yolox\u00f3chitl) led 105 days of fieldwork that yielded 888 distinct plant collections. A total of 584 recordings were made in all four YM communities; only 452 were in Yolox\u00f3chitl, and of these, 435, totaling 15.17 hours with only three speakers, were used as a second test case for E2E ASR. Recordings were done outdoors at the plant collection site with a Zoom H4n handheld digital recorder. The Zoom H4n internal mic was used; recordings were 48KHz, 16-bit, a single channel with one speaker talking after another (no overlap). Each recording has a short introduction by Velasco describing, in Spanish, the plant being collected. This Spanish section has not been factored into the duration of the YMC-FB corpus, nor has it been evaluated for character and word error rates at this time (pending future implementation of a multilingual model). The processing of the 435 recordings falls into two groups.",
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"text": "Unique identifier: 2017-12-01-b Speakers: Constantino Teodoro Bautista and Esteban Guadalupe Sierra Spanish:The first 13 seconds (3 segments) of the recording were of a Spanish speaker describing the plant being collected (Passiflora biflora Lam.) and have not been included below. Note: A total 16 out of 33 segments/utterances are without ASR error. These are marked with an asterisk. Original recording and ELAN file: Download at http://www.balsas-nahuatl.org/NLP 4*. 00:00:13.442 -> 00:00:17.105 ASR constantino teodoro bautista Exp Constantino Teodoro Bautista. Notes: ASR does not output caps or punctuation.",
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"text": "15*. 00:01:06.296 -> 00:01:10.981 ASR tan 3 ya 1 xa' 4 nu 3 su 4 kun (1) =a 1 mi 4 i 4 ti 4 ba 42 sa 3 ba 3 xia 4 an 4 ku 3 ta' 3 an 2 =e 4 =e 2 ndi 4 xa' 4 nu (3) =a 2 kwa 1 nda 3 a (3) =e 2 nda' 3 a 4 i 3 tun 4 Exp tan 3 ya 1 xa' 4 nu 3 su 4 kun (1) =a 1 mi 4 i 4 ti 4 ba 42 sa 3 ba 3 xia 4 an 4 ku 3 ta' 3 an 2 =e 4 =e 2 ndi 4 xa' 4 nu (3) =a 2 kwa 1 nda 3 a (3) =e 2 nda' 3 a 4 i 3 tun 4 Notes: No errors in the ASR hypothesis.",
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"text": "17*. 00:01:14.768 -> 00:01:18.281 ASR mi 4 i 4 ba 143 xa' 4 nda 2 =na (1) =e 1 ndi 4 xa' 4 nu 3 su 4 kun (1) =a 1 Exp mi 4 i 4 ba 143 xa' 4 nda 2 =na (1) =e 1 ndi 4 xa' 4 nu 3 su 4 kun (1) =a 1 , Notes: No errors in the ASR hypothesis.",
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"text": "18*. 00:01:18.281 -> 00:01:21.487 ASR ya 1 kan 4 ku 4 u 4 kwi 1 yo' 1 o 4 ju 13 ta' 3 an 2 =ndu 1 i 3 chi 4 kwa' 1 an 1 ku 3 rra 42 chi 4 \u00f1u 3 yo' 4 o 4 Exp ya 1 kan 4 ku 4 u 4 kwi 1 yo' 1 o 4 ju 13 ta' 3 an 2 =ndu 1 i 3 chi 4 kwa' 1 an 1 ku 3 rra 42 chi 4 \u00f1u 3 yo' 4 o 4 . Notes: No errors in the ASR hypothesis.",
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"text": "The authors gratefully acknowledge the following support for documenting and studying Yolox\u00f3chitl Mixtec: National Science Foundation, Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL): Awards 1761421, 1500595, 0966462 (Amith, PI on all three; the second was a collaborative project with SRI International, Award 1500738, Andreas Kathol, PI); Endangered Language Documentation Programme: Awards MDP0201, PPG0048 (Amith, PI on both). The following support is acknowledged for documenting and studying Highland Puebla Nahuat: NSF DEL: Awards: 1401178, 0756536 (Amith, PI on both awards); National Endowment for the Humanities, Preservation and Access: PD-50031-14 (Amith, PI); Endangered Language Documentation Programme: Award MDP0272 (Amith, PI); and the Comisi\u00f3n Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, Mexico (Gerardo Salazar, PI; Amith, co-PI). The FOMA FST for Yolox\u00f3chitl Mixtec was built by Jason Lilley, Amith, and Castillo with support from NSF DEL Award 1360670 (Christian DiCanio, PI).Finally, the authors thank Shinji Watanabe both for his advice and guidance and for the key role he played in bringing together a field linguist, a native speaker, and a computational linguist for this project.",
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