Abstract
Audio transcription systems typically require that the language being spoken be specified explicitly such that a language-specific transcription technique can be employed. In cases where the spoken language is not explicitly indicated, a possible approach is to process the audio via all available transcription techniques and choose the transcription associated with the highest confidence. Such an approach does not scale to support a large number of natural languages and is computationally expensive. This disclosure describes automatic identification of the natural language being spoken in audio input. The audio is processed using a trained machine learning model to output a language code corresponding to the language being spoken. Such a two-step approach, with a language identification step preceding the transcription step, enables supporting a large number of natural languages without incurring computational costs, latencies, and inaccuracies of employing multiple transcription techniques in parallel.
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Recommended Citation
Abdelaziz, Omar and Greaves, Alex, "Automatic Identification Of Spoken Language In Audio Clips", Technical Disclosure Commons, (November 21, 2019)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/2711