From Sinhala to Dhivehi: Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Speech Recognition

Dhivehi, the national language of the Maldives, is currently under-resourced for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and other NLP tasks. This study investigates whether cross-lingual transfer learning from Sinhala, a linguistically related, relatively well-resourced Insular Indo-Aryan language, can ...