构建跨方言汉字罗马化系统,提升粤语普通话语音识别性能
Toward a Cross-Lingual Romanization Ecosystem for Sinitic Languages: A Paired Mandarin-Cantonese Case Study
- 设计四原则统一粤语普通话罗马化符号体系
- 新方案使粤语词错误率降10.61%,普通话降7.80%
- 开源工具链支持多方言输入与数据转换
本文提出中文罗马化生态系统,一个跨方言中文罗马化设计框架,包含配套数字基础设施和社区驱动的开源工作流。该框架通过四个设计原则解决中文方言间罗马化缺乏系统对齐的问题:音素对应(相似发音用相似符号)、历史音韵对应(同源词罗马化一致)、一音一符、仅用基础拉丁字母,并权衡各原则间的取舍。以粤语-普通话配对案例为例,分别开发了CantRomZJ1和MandRomZJ1罗马化方案,同时基于相同框架扩展至梅州客家话、上海吴语、南京江淮官话等方言。为推动实际应用,构建了开源基础设施,支持结构化罗马化存储、转换、解析、词典构建及输入法生成。最后通过基于Meta MMS微调的语音转罗马化实验评估框架效果。相比拼音+粤拼基线,新方案在粤语上降低词错误率7.80%、字符错误率10.61%,表明跨方言罗马化对低资源中文语音技术迁移有显著提升作用。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper proposes the Sinitic Romanization Ecosystem, a cross-lingual Sinitic romanization design framework with supporting digital infrastructure and a community-driven open-source workflow. The design framework addresses the lack of systematic cross-lingual romanization alignment among Sinitic languages through four design principles: phonetic correspondence for representing similar sounds with similar romanized symbols, historical-phonological correspondence for aligning cognate romanization strings, one-phoneme-one-symbol, and basic Latin-letter use, with a balancing consideration recognizing trade-offs among these principles. For the main paired case study, we devel-op CantRomZJ1 and MandRomZJ1, Cantonese and Manda-rin romanization schemes following the design framework, respectively. We also develop schemes for several other Sinitic languages, including Meixian Hakka, Shanghai Wu, and Nanjing Jianghuai Mandarin, following the same de-sign framework. To bring the romanization schemes into practical use, we develop open-source infrastructure for structured romanization storage, conversion, parsing, dic-tionary construction, and input-method generation. Finally, we evaluate the design framework through speech-to-romanization experiments based on Meta's Massively Mul-tilingual Speech (MMS) fine-tuning. Compared with the Pinyin+Jyutping baseline, our Man-dRomZJ1+CantRomZJ1 condition reduces Cantonese WER and CER by 7.80% and 10.61%, respectively. These results suggest that cross-lingual romanization alignment can improve transfer in low-resource Sinitic speech technology.
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