Open source platform for Estonian speech transcription.

This paper presents our progress in developing and maintaining a public speech and speaker recognition platform for the Estonian language. The platform consists of a speech processing pipeline and a web-based user interface for end-users, offering transcript post-editing functionality. It is offered...

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Published in:Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 4421 - 4439
Main Authors: Olev, Aivo, Alumäe, Tanel
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2025
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Summary:This paper presents our progress in developing and maintaining a public speech and speaker recognition platform for the Estonian language. The platform consists of a speech processing pipeline and a web-based user interface for end-users, offering transcript post-editing functionality. It is offered for free as a public service and is in active use. The service provides significantly higher speech recognition accuracy than commercial alternatives. We discuss the switch to a workflow management system and how it has improved the core speech processing pipeline. The core systems behind the platform have been made available as open-source code and deployed internally by multiple public and private institutions.