Use of Adult Speech Data for Pretraining and Fine-Tuning

feritbilen March 16, 2026, 3:42pm 1

Are participants allowed to pretrain or fine-tune models on adult speech data first, and then adapt those models to child speech for this competition?

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Use of Adult Speech Data for Pretraining and Fine-Tuning

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