Formosa Speech Recognition Challenge 2020
and Taiwanese Across Taiwan (TAT) Corpus
Endangered Taiwanese
Since 1980's, Mandarin became dominant in Taiwan
Banned by KMT
Most people cannot speak Taiwanese fluently nowadays
Especially younger generation
Difficult Situation
Only one Taiwanese TV channel (started last year)
Hope it's not yet too late to save Taiwanese!
Taiwanese is not Min-Nan
Taiwanese is Unique
Introduction to Taiwanese Vocabulary
Formosa Speech in the Wild Public group
Taiwanese Speech synthesis system
台語語音合成系統---變調及韻律符號校正實驗