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Audio-visual speech separation methods aim to integrate different modalities to generate high-quality separated speech, thereby enhancing the performance of downstream tasks such as speech recognition. Most existing state-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Samuel Pegg , Kai Li , Xiaolin Hu

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

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 work, we exploit speech enhancement for improving a recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) based ASR system. We employ a dense convolutional recurrent network (DCRN) for complex spectral mapping based speech enhancement, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ashutosh Pandey , Chunxi Liu , Yun Wang , Yatharth Saraf

The recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) has recently become the mainstream end-to-end approach for streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR). To estimate the output distributions over subword units, RNN-T uses a fully connected…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Chao Zhang , Bo Li , Zhiyun Lu , Tara N. Sainath , Shuo-yiin Chang

Recently, there has been a strong push to transition from hybrid models to end-to-end (E2E) models for automatic speech recognition. Currently, there are three promising E2E methods: recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T), RNN…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-31 Jinyu Li , Yu Wu , Yashesh Gaur , Chengyi Wang , Rui Zhao , Shujie Liu

In recent years, all-neural end-to-end approaches have obtained state-of-the-art results on several challenging automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks. However, most existing works focus on building ASR models where train and test data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Chung-Cheng Chiu , Arun Narayanan , Wei Han , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Yu Zhang , Navdeep Jaitly , Ruoming Pang , Tara N. Sainath , Patrick Nguyen , Liangliang Cao , Yonghui Wu

Humans are adept at leveraging visual cues from lip movements for recognizing speech in adverse listening conditions. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) models follow similar approach to achieve robust speech recognition in noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Maxime Burchi , Krishna C. Puvvada , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg , Radu Timofte

Comprehending the overall intent of an utterance helps a listener recognize the individual words spoken. Inspired by this fact, we perform a novel study of the impact of explicitly incorporating intent representations as additional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Swayambhu Nath Ray , Minhua Wu , Anirudh Raju , Pegah Ghahremani , Raghavendra Bilgi , Milind Rao , Harish Arsikere , Ariya Rastrow , Andreas Stolcke , Jasha Droppo

Speech transcription, emotion recognition, and language identification are usually considered to be three different tasks. Each one requires a different model with a different architecture and training process. We propose using a recurrent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Zvi Kons , Hagai Aronowitz , Edmilson Morais , Matheus Damasceno , Hong-Kwang Kuo , Samuel Thomas , George Saon

Because of its streaming nature, recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) is a very promising end-to-end (E2E) model that may replace the popular hybrid model for automatic speech recognition. In this paper, we describe our recent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-31 Jinyu Li , Rui Zhao , Zhong Meng , Yanqing Liu , Wenning Wei , Sarangarajan Parthasarathy , Vadim Mazalov , Zhenghao Wang , Lei He , Sheng Zhao , Yifan Gong

The requirements for many applications of state-of-the-art speech recognition systems include not only low word error rate (WER) but also low latency. Specifically, for many use-cases, the system must be able to decode utterances in a…

Current methods for learning visually grounded language from videos often rely on text annotation, such as human generated captions or machine generated automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts. In this work, we introduce the…

We develop streaming keyword spotting systems using a recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) model: an all-neural, end-to-end trained, sequence-to-sequence model which jointly learns acoustic and language model components. Our models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Yanzhang He , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Kanishka Rao , Wei Li , Anton Bakhtin , Ian McGraw

This work introduces TTS-Transducer - a novel architecture for text-to-speech, leveraging the strengths of audio codec models and neural transducers. Transducers, renowned for their superior quality and robustness in speech recognition, are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Vladimir Bataev , Subhankar Ghosh , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Jason Li

The Recurrent Neural Network-Transducer (RNN-T) is widely adopted in end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks but depends heavily on large-scale, high-quality annotated data, which are often costly and difficult to obtain.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Dongji Gao , Chenda Liao , Changliang Liu , Matthew Wiesner , Leibny Paola Garcia , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Jian Wu

Although recent advances in deep learning technology have boosted automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance in the single-talker case, it remains difficult to recognize multi-talker speech in which many voices overlap. One conventional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Takafumi Moriya , Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takahiro Shinozaki

Audio-visual recognition (AVR) has been considered as a solution for speech recognition tasks when the audio is corrupted, as well as a visual recognition method used for speaker verification in multi-speaker scenarios. The approach of AVR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Amirsina Torfi , Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Nasser M. Nasrabadi , Jeremy Dawson

In this paper, the problem of describing visual contents of a video sequence with natural language is addressed. Unlike previous video captioning work mainly exploiting the cues of video contents to make a language description, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Wei Zhang , Bairui Wang , Lin Ma , Wei Liu

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…