Publications on "Multilingual"

2024

Multilingual DistilWhisper: Efficient Distillation of Multi-task Speech Models via Language-Specific Experts

Thomas Palmeira Ferraz, Marcely Zanon Boito, Caroline Brun, Vassilina Nikoulina

ICASSP, 2024

TL;DR: Proposes a lightweight adaptation method bridging the gap between small and large speech models on under-represented languages by leveraging language-specific experts and knowledge distillation, outperforming fine-tuning and LoRA with minimal overhead.

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Speech Processing Multilingual

2023

Efficient Compression of Multitask Multilingual Speech Models

Thomas Palmeira Ferraz

Master Dissertation, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

TL;DR: We find that Whisper speaker and model-related biases are worsened by light compression (quantization), for low-resource languages and small models, and to address this we propose a distilled modular variant that markedly improves it for under-represented languages while preserving its multilingual, multitask strengths with minimal overhead.

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Speech Processing Multilingual Compression Thesis