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Code-switching describes the practice of using more than one language in the same sentence. In this study, we investigate how to optimize a neural transducer based bilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for code-switching…

The pervasiveness of intra-utterance code-switching (CS) in spoken content requires that speech recognition (ASR) systems handle mixed language. Designing a CS-ASR system has many challenges, mainly due to data scarcity, grammatical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Amir Hussein , Shammur Absar Chowdhury , Ahmed Abdelali , Najim Dehak , Ahmed Ali , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Recently, there has been a growing interest in end-to-end speech recognition that directly transcribes speech to text without any predefined alignments. In this paper, we explore the use of attention-based encoder-decoder model for Mandarin…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Changhao Shan , Junbo Zhang , Yujun Wang , Lei Xie

The prevalence of the powerful multilingual models, such as Whisper, has significantly advanced the researches on speech recognition. However, these models often struggle with handling the code-switching setting, which is essential in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-15 Bobbi Aditya , Mahdin Rohmatillah , Liang-Hsuan Tai , Jen-Tzung Chien

Recently, end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have garnered tremendous attention because of their great success and unified modeling paradigms in comparison to conventional hybrid DNN-HMM ASR systems. Despite the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Tien-Hong Lo , Shi-Yan Weng , Hsiu-Jui Chang , Berlin Chen

Code-Switching (CS) multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models can transcribe speech containing two or more alternating languages during a conversation. This paper proposes (1) a new method for creating code-switching ASR…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Kunal Dhawan , Dima Rekesh , Boris Ginsburg

Recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) demonstrated how end-to-end systems are able to achieve state-of-the-art performance. There is a trend towards deeper neural networks, however those ASR models are also more complex and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Ludwig Kürzinger , Edgar Ricardo Chavez Rosas , Lujun Li , Tobias Watzel , Gerhard Rigoll

Building Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for code-switched speech has recently gained renewed attention due to the widespread use of speech technologies in multilingual communities worldwide. End-to-end ASR systems are a natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yash Sharma , Basil Abraham , Karan Taneja , Preethi Jyothi

We present an end-to-end multichannel speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (MC-SA-ASR) system that combines a Conformer-based encoder with multi-frame crosschannel attention and a speaker-attributed Transformer-based decoder. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Can Cui , Imran Ahamad Sheikh , Mostafa Sadeghi , Emmanuel Vincent

Intra-sentential code-switching (CS) refers to the alternation between languages that happens within a single utterance and is a significant challenge for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. For example, when a Vietnamese speaker…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 The Chuong Chu , Vu Tuan Dat Pham , Kien Dao , Hoang Nguyen , Quoc Hung Truong

Recently, end-to-end ASR based either on sequence-to-sequence networks or on the CTC objective function gained a lot of interest from the community, achieving competitive results over traditional systems using robust but complex pipelines.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Florian Boyer , Jean-Luc Rouas

Languages usually switch within a multilingual speech signal, especially in a bilingual society. This phenomenon is referred to as code-switching (CS), making automatic speech recognition (ASR) challenging under a multilingual scenario. We…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Hexin Liu , Leibny Paola Garcia , Xiangyu Zhang , Andy W. H. Khong , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Recently, there has been increasing progress in end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) architecture, which transcribes speech to text without any pre-trained alignments. One popular end-to-end approach is the hybrid Connectionist…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Haoran Miao , Gaofeng Cheng , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

We present a novel approach to end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) that utilizes pre-trained masked language models (LMs) to facilitate the extraction of linguistic information. The proposed models, BERT-CTC and BECTRA, are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Yosuke Higuchi , Tetsuji Ogawa , Tetsunori Kobayashi , Shinji Watanabe

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in end-to-end speech recognition that directly transcribes speech to text without any predefined alignments. One approach is the attention-based encoder-decoder framework that learns a mapping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Suyoun Kim , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe

Code-switching (CS) automatic speech recognition (ASR) faces challenges due to the language confusion resulting from accents, auditory similarity, and seamless language switches. Adaptation on the pre-trained multi-lingual model has shown…

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In this paper, we present Adaptive Computation Steps (ACS) algo-rithm, which enables end-to-end speech recognition models to dy-namically decide how many frames should be processed to predict a linguistic output. The model that applies ACS…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-27 Mohan Li , Min Liu , Masanori Hattori

End-to-end neural automatic speech recognition systems achieved recently state-of-the-art results, but they require large datasets and extensive computing resources. Transfer learning has been proposed to overcome these difficulties even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Peter Polák , Ondřej Bojar

End-to-end approaches for automatic speech recognition (ASR) benefit from directly modeling the probability of the word sequence given the input audio stream in a single neural network. However, compared to conventional ASR systems, these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Ankur Gandhe , Ariya Rastrow

Sequence-to-sequence attention-based models have recently shown very promising results on automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks, which integrate an acoustic, pronunciation and language model into a single neural network. In these models,…

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