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Towards End-to-end Automatic Code-Switching Speech Recognition

Computation and Language 2018-10-31 v1

Abstract

Speech recognition in mixed language has difficulties to adapt end-to-end framework due to the lack of data and overlapping phone sets, for example in words such as "one" in English and "w\`an" in Chinese. We propose a CTC-based end-to-end automatic speech recognition model for intra-sentential English-Mandarin code-switching. The model is trained by joint training on monolingual datasets, and fine-tuning with the mixed-language corpus. During the decoding process, we apply a beam search and combine CTC predictions and language model score. The proposed method is effective in leveraging monolingual corpus and detecting language transitions and it improves the CER by 5%.

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@article{arxiv.1810.12620,
  title  = {Towards End-to-end Automatic Code-Switching Speech Recognition},
  author = {Genta Indra Winata and Andrea Madotto and Chien-Sheng Wu and Pascale Fung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12620},
  year   = {2018}
}

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