PiDA: Phonetically-Informed Data Augmentation for Robust Vietnamese Speech Translation

In three linesStudy of ASR errors in Vietnamese speech translation. Authors categorize substitution errors by phonetic cause and propose PiDA (Phonetically-Informed Data Augmentation), which augments training data with phonetically similar corruptions. Fine-tuning on FLEURS Vietnamese-English improves translation of erroneous ASR outputs (+2.04 BLEU).

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