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ToneCL: Contrastive Learning for Few-Shot Syllable-Level Tone Classification

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 21, 2026 · UTC

Tone languages constitute over 50-70% of the world's languages, but the vast majority are low-resource, lacking the large transcribed corpora needed for automatic tone classification. Existing datasets are typically collected at the sentence level, whereas field linguists require fine-grained syllable-level annotations. We propose ToneCL, a lightweight contrastive learning framework for few-shot syllable-level tone classification. We simulate low-resource conditions on Mandarin and Vietnamese, limiting labeled data to tens of examples per tone class. ToneCL is pretrained on unlabeled speech wi

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