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End-to-end (E2E) speech recognition architectures assemble all components of traditional speech recognition system into a single model. Although it simplifies ASR system, it introduces contextual ASR drawback: the E2E model has worse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Zhengyi Zhang , Pan Zhou

Recent advancements in attention mechanisms have replaced recurrent neural networks and its variants for machine translation tasks. Transformer using attention mechanism solely achieved state-of-the-art results in sequence modeling. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Prakhar Thapak , Prodip Hore

Improving the representation of contextual information is key to unlocking the potential of end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this work, we present a novel and simple approach for training an ASR context mechanism with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-30 Uri Alon , Golan Pundak , Tara N. Sainath

This paper proposes a model for transforming speech features using the frequency-directional attention model for End-to-End (E2E) automatic speech recognition. The idea is based on the hypothesis that in the phoneme system of each language,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Akihiro Dobashi , Chee Siang Leow , Hiromitsu Nishizaki

Transformer-based models have led to significant innovation in classical and practical subjects as varied as speech processing, natural language processing, and computer vision. On top of the Transformer, attention-based end-to-end…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Fu-Hao Yu , Kuan-Yu Chen

End-to-end speech recognition has become popular in recent years, since it can integrate the acoustic, pronunciation and language models into a single neural network. Among end-to-end approaches, attention-based methods have emerged as…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Zhifu Gao , Shiliang Zhang , Ming Lei , Ian McLoughlin

Accent variability has posed a huge challenge to automatic speech recognition~(ASR) modeling. Although one-hot accent vector based adaptation systems are commonly used, they require prior knowledge about the target accent and cannot handle…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Xun Gong , Yizhou Lu , Zhikai Zhou , Yanmin Qian

Neural Machine Translation model is a sequence-to-sequence converter based on neural networks. Existing models use recurrent neural networks to construct both the encoder and decoder modules. In alternative research, the recurrent networks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ritam Mallick , Seba Susan , Vaibhaw Agrawal , Rizul Garg , Prateek Rawal

Speech accents pose a significant challenge to state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Degradation in performance across underrepresented accents is a severe deterrent to the inclusive adoption of ASR. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Darshan Prabhu , Preethi Jyothi , Sriram Ganapathy , Vinit Unni

Modeling the parser state is key to good performance in transition-based parsing. Recurrent Neural Networks considerably improved the performance of transition-based systems by modelling the global state, e.g. stack-LSTM parsers, or local…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ramon Fernandez Astudillo , Miguel Ballesteros , Tahira Naseem , Austin Blodgett , Radu Florian

Context cues carry information which can improve multi-turn interactions in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. In this paper, we introduce a novel mechanism inspired by hyper-prompting to fuse textual context with acoustic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Sergio Duarte-Torres , Arunasish Sen , Aman Rana , Lukas Drude , Alejandro Gomez-Alanis , Andreas Schwarz , Leif Rädel , Volker Leutnant

We propose an unsupervised speaker adaptation method inspired by the neural Turing machine for end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR). The proposed model contains a memory block that holds speaker i-vectors extracted from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Leda Sarı , Niko Moritz , Takaaki Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

Leveraging context information is an intuitive idea to improve performance on conversational automatic speech recognition(ASR). Previous works usually adopt recognized hypotheses of historical utterances as preceding context, which may bias…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Kun Wei , Yike Zhang , Sining Sun , Lei Xie , Long Ma

Transformer models have been introduced into end-to-end speech recognition with state-of-the-art performance on various tasks owing to their superiority in modeling long-term dependencies. However, such improvements are usually obtained…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Haoneng Luo , Shiliang Zhang , Ming Lei , Lei Xie

Recently, self-attention models such as Transformers have given competitive results compared to recurrent neural network systems in speech recognition. The key factor for the outstanding performance of self-attention models is their ability…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-29 Shucong Zhang , Erfan Loweimi , Peter Bell , Steve Renals

Contextual biasing is an important and challenging task for end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, which aims to achieve better recognition performance by biasing the ASR system to particular context phrases such as person…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Xiaoqiang Wang , Yanqing Liu , Jinyu Li , Veljko Miljanic , Sheng Zhao , Hosam Khalil

End-to-end (E2E) models have gained attention in the research field of automatic speech recognition (ASR). Many E2E models proposed so far assume left-to-right autoregressive generation of an output token sequence except for connectionist…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Yuya Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Motoi Omachi , Xuankai Chan

Language modeling (LM) for automatic speech recognition (ASR) does not usually incorporate utterance level contextual information. For some domains like voice assistants, however, additional context, such as the time at which an utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Richard Diehl Martinez , Scott Novotney , Ivan Bulyko , Ariya Rastrow , Andreas Stolcke , Ankur Gandhe

Speech-to-text translation (ST), which translates source language speech into target language text, has attracted intensive attention in recent years. Compared to the traditional pipeline system, the end-to-end ST model has potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuchen Liu , Jiajun Zhang , Hao Xiong , Long Zhou , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Chengqing Zong

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models with a single neural network have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art results compared to conventional hybrid speech recognizers. Specifically, recurrent neural network transducer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Chunxi Liu , Frank Zhang , Duc Le , Suyoun Kim , Yatharth Saraf , Geoffrey Zweig