An Evaluation of Croatian ASR Models for Čakavian Transcription

Abstract

To assist in the documentation of Čakavian, an endangered language variety closely related to Croatian, we test four currently available ASR models that are trained with Croatian data and assess their performance in the transcription of Čakavian audio data. We compare the models’ word error rates, analyze the word-level error types, and showcase the most frequent Deletion and Substitution errors. The evaluation results indicate that the best-performing system for transcribing Čakavian was a CTC-based variant of the Conformer model.