arXiv Open Access 2026

Dialect Matters: Cross-Lingual ASR Transfer for Low-Resource Indic Language Varieties

Akriti Dhasmana Aarohi Srivastava David Chiang

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We conduct an empirical study of cross-lingual transfer using spontaneous, noisy, and code-mixed speech across a wide range of Indic dialects and language varieties. Our results indicate that although ASR performance is generally improved with reduced phylogenetic distance between languages, this factor alone does not fully explain performance in dialectal settings. Often, fine-tuning on smaller amounts of dialectal data yields performance comparable to fine-tuning on larger amounts of phylogenetically-related, high-resource standardized languages. We also present a case study on Garhwali, a low-resource Pahari language variety, and evaluate multiple contemporary ASR models. Finally, we analyze transcription errors to examine bias toward pre-training languages, providing additional insight into challenges faced by ASR systems on dialectal and non-standardized speech.

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Akriti Dhasmana

Aarohi Srivastava

David Chiang

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Dhasmana, A., Srivastava, A., Chiang, D. (2026). Dialect Matters: Cross-Lingual ASR Transfer for Low-Resource Indic Language Varieties. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04373

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Tahun Terbit: 2026
Bahasa: en
Sumber Database: arXiv
Akses: Open Access ✓