Journal of Applied Data Sciences
Vol 7, No 3: September 2026

Enhancing Low-Resource Lampung Speech Recognition through Cross-Lingual XLSR-Wav2Vec 2.0 Pretraining

Hendra Kurniawan (Doctoral Program of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Lampung, Indonesia)
Akmal Junaidi (Universitas Lampung, Indonesia)
Favorisen Rosyking Lumbanraja (Universitas Lampung, Indonesia)
Wamiliana Wamiliana (Universitas Lampung, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Jun 2026

Abstract

This study investigates the application of Wav2Vec 2.0 (W2V2) and Cross-Lingual Speech Representation (XLSR) models to Lampung language speech recognition. LampungNyow v1.0 is introduced, a speech corpus designed to provide a baseline for training and evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for this low-resource regional language of Indonesia. The dataset enables supervised fine-tuning and standardized evaluation, addressing the lack of publicly available linguistic resources for Lampung. Several pre-trained W2V2 models on Lampung speech recognition using Word Error Rate (WER) as the evaluation metric. The evaluated models include W2V2-Base, W2V2-Large, W2V2-Large-XLSR-Indonesian, W2V2-Large-XLSR-Sundanese, W2V2-Large-XLSR-53, and the multilingual W2V2-Large-XLSR-Indonesia-Javanese-Sundanese model. Monolingual models have higher WER values, according to experimental results: W2V2-Base achieved 36,23%, while W2V2-Large achieved 36,30%. XLSR models, such as XLSR-53 (33,88%), Sundanese (33,99%), and Indonesian (33,70%), demonstrated modest improvements. The W2V2-Large-XLSR-Indonesian-Javanese-Sundanese model, which was the foundation for the Lampung automatic speech recognition system in this study, achieved lower WER of 17,39%. These findings suggest that, in contrast to more comprehensive multilingual or monolingual pretraining models, multilingual pretraining utilizing a number of Indonesian regional languages can produce acoustic and contextual speech representations that are better suited for the resource-constrained Lampung automatic speech recognition task. When compared to the baseline W2V2-Large model, the obtained WER of 17,39% indicates a relative improvement of more than 50%.

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Journal Info

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JADS

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Subject

Computer Science & IT Control & Systems Engineering Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management

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