Improving Northern Regional Dutch Speech Recognition by Adapting Perturbation-based Data Augmentation

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) does not perform equally well on every speaker. There is bias against many attributes, including accent. To train Dutch ASR, there exists CGN(Corpus Gesproken Nederlands) and as an extension, the JASMIN corpus with annotated accented data. This paper focuses on improving ASR performance for NRAD (Northern...