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Recent studies reveal the potential of recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) for end-to-end (E2E) speech recognition. Among some most popular E2E systems including RNN-T, Attention Encoder-Decoder (AED), and Connectionist Temporal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Bin Wang , Yan Yin , Hui Lin

We investigate training end-to-end speech recognition models with the recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T): a streaming, all-neural, sequence-to-sequence architecture which jointly learns acoustic and language model components from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Kanishka Rao , Haşim Sak , Rohit Prabhavalkar

We explore options to use Transformer networks in neural transducer for end-to-end speech recognition. Transformer networks use self-attention for sequence modeling and comes with advantages in parallel computation and capturing contexts.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-30 Ching-Feng Yeh , Jay Mahadeokar , Kaustubh Kalgaonkar , Yongqiang Wang , Duc Le , Mahaveer Jain , Kjell Schubert , Christian Fuegen , Michael L. Seltzer

In the last few years, an emerging trend in automatic speech recognition research is the study of end-to-end (E2E) systems. Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC), Attention Encoder-Decoder (AED), and RNN Transducer (RNN-T) are the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Jinyu Li , Rui Zhao , Hu Hu , Yifan Gong

Recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) is an end-to-end speech recognition framework converting input acoustic frames into a character sequence. The state-of-the-art encoder network for RNN-T is the Conformer, which can effectively…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-20 Juntae Kim , Jeehye Lee

Recently, the recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) architecture has become an emerging trend in end-to-end automatic speech recognition research due to its advantages of being capable for online streaming speech recognition. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Hu Hu , Rui Zhao , Jinyu Li , Liang Lu , Yifan Gong

In this paper we present an end-to-end speech recognition model with Transformer encoders that can be used in a streaming speech recognition system. Transformer computation blocks based on self-attention are used to encode both audio and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Qian Zhang , Han Lu , Hasim Sak , Anshuman Tripathi , Erik McDermott , Stephen Koo , Shankar Kumar

Self-attention models have been successfully applied in end-to-end speech recognition systems, which greatly improve the performance of recognition accuracy. However, such attention-based models cannot be used in online speech recognition,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Jian Luo , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, including both attention-based models and the recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T), have shown superior performance compared to conventional systems. However, previous studies…

End-to-end approaches have drawn much attention recently for significantly simplifying the construction of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. RNN transducer (RNN-T) is one of the popular end-to-end methods. Previous studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Senmao Wang , Pan Zhou , Wei Chen , Jia Jia , Lei Xie

This paper presents a novel streaming end-to-end target-speaker speech recognition that addresses two critical limitations in systems: the handling of noisy enrollment utterances and specific enrollment phrase requirements. This paper…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Mohsen Ghane , Mohammad Sadegh Safari

Recently, language identity information has been utilized to improve the performance of end-to-end code-switching (CS) speech recognition. However, previous works use an additional language identification (LID) model as an auxiliary module,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Shuai Zhang , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengkun Tian , Jianhua Tao , Ye Bai

End-to-end model, especially Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T), has achieved great success in speech recognition. However, transducer requires a great memory footprint and computing time when processing a long decoding sequence.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Xiaohui Zhang , Mangui Liang , Zhengkun Tian , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao

There is a growing interest in the speech community in developing Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T) models for automatic speech recognition (ASR) applications. RNN-T is trained with a loss function that does not enforce temporal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Jay Mahadeokar , Yuan Shangguan , Duc Le , Gil Keren , Hang Su , Thong Le , Ching-Feng Yeh , Christian Fuegen , Michael L. Seltzer

We propose Chunk-wise Attention Transducer (CHAT), a novel extension to RNN-T models that processes audio in fixed-size chunks while employing cross-attention within each chunk. This hybrid approach maintains RNN-T's streaming capability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hainan Xu , Vladimir Bataev , Travis M. Bartley , Jagadeesh Balam

Modern systems for automatic speech recognition, including the RNN-Transducer and Attention-based Encoder-Decoder (AED), are designed so that the encoder is not required to alter the time-position of information from the audio sequence into…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Adam Stooke , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Khe Chai Sim , Pedro Moreno Mengibar

Self-attention network, an attention-based feedforward neural network, has recently shown the potential to replace recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in a variety of NLP tasks. However, it is not clear if the self-attention network could be a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Linhao Dong , Feng Wang , Bo Xu

In this work, we perform an empirical comparison among the CTC, RNN-Transducer, and attention-based Seq2Seq models for end-to-end speech recognition. We show that, without any language model, Seq2Seq and RNN-Transducer models both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Eric Battenberg , Jitong Chen , Rewon Child , Adam Coates , Yashesh Gaur , Yi Li , Hairong Liu , Sanjeev Satheesh , David Seetapun , Anuroop Sriram , Zhenyao Zhu

Modeling unit and model architecture are two key factors of Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T) in end-to-end speech recognition. To improve the performance of RNN-T for Mandarin speech recognition task, a novel transformer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Li Fu , Xiaoxiao Li , Libo Zi

The recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) is a prominent streaming end-to-end (E2E) ASR technology. In RNN-T, the acoustic encoder commonly consists of stacks of LSTMs. Very recently, as an alternative to LSTM layers, the Conformer…

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