D.A. Balan (Dragos)

I am working in collaboration with Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld & Geluid (Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision) on the Oral History - Stories at the Museum around Artworks (OH-SMArt) project. OH-SMArt is a long term initiative to significantly improve the digital research chain around using Oral History and spoken narratives, with research into artworks and museums as a use case. My role within this project is to evaluate state-of-the-art speech recognition models such as Whisper and XLS-R and propose and implement one of the models as an automatic transcriber within the infrastructure of the Institute which can be used as a tool by researchers working with digital media archives to automatically transcribe Oral History interviews or other audiovisual content present in the Institute's digital archive.

As about my background, I studied the Bachelor of Computer Science & Engineering at TU Delft and the Voice Technology Master at University of Groningen - Campus Fryslân. My master's thesis topic is using state-of-the-art models (mainly XLS-R) for Frisian Automatic Speech Recognition.

My general interests are speech technology-related, focusing on speech recognition for low-resource contexts (languages, groups of speakers, etc.), as well as speech recognition methods to transcribe big data.

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• Computer Science

  • Benchmarking
  • Research Infrastructure
  • Speech Recognition
  • Informed Choice
  • Infrastructure Provider
  • Starting Point
  • Use Case

• Earth and Planetary Sciences

  • State of the Art

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My general research interest is Automatic Speech Recognition, with a focus on large-scale processing within Research Infrastructures and for the Dutch language.

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University of Twente

Citadel (building no. 09), room H234
Hallenweg 15
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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