Hope Kerubo Ombaba

Evaluating the Effect of Linguistic Relatedness on Cross-Lingual Transfer in Large Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition

In every setting, pre-adaptation on related auxiliary languages yields no practically meaningful improvements once as little as one hour of target-language data is available, suggesting that relatedness alone may not reliably predict transfer gains in large multilingual ASR, or constitute an effective strategy for extending such models to low-resource languages.