papersSEP 10 04:00 UTC
Stress-Aware Sentence-Level Filipino G2P Model Built With Weakly-Supervised ByT5 Fine-Tuning
A new arXiv preprint presents a fine-tuned ByT5 model that converts Filipino text into phoneme sequences at the sentence level while also predicting stress. Since Filipino's spelling maps to sounds fairly predictably, the authors focus on the harder problem of capturing prosody, which they tackle using weakly supervised training data.