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IEEE

Improving Accented Speech Recognition Using Data Augmentation Based on Unsupervised Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Abstract: This paper investigates the use of unsupervised text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) as a data augmentation method to improve accented speech recognition. TTS systems are trained with a small ...