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End-to-end models have achieved impressive results on the task of automatic speech recognition (ASR). For low-resource ASR tasks, however, labeled data can hardly satisfy the demand of end-to-end models. Self-supervised acoustic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Cheng Yi , Shiyu Zhou , Bo Xu

All-neural end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems that use a single neural network to transduce audio to word sequences have been shown to achieve state-of-the-art results on several tasks. In this work, we examine the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Arun Narayanan , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Chung-Cheng Chiu , David Rybach , Tara N. Sainath , Trevor Strohman

Transformer-based end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have recently gained wide popularity, and are shown to outperform E2E models based on recurrent structures on a number of ASR tasks. However, like other E2E…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Mohan Li , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla

Despite the recent significant advances witnessed in end-to-end (E2E) ASR system for code-switching, hunger for audio-text paired data limits the further improvement of the models' performance. In this paper, we propose a decoupled…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Shuai Zhang , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengkun Tian , Ye Bai , Jianhua Tao , Zhengqi wen

Recently, self-supervised pretraining has achieved impressive results in end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, the dominant sequence-to-sequence (S2S) E2E model is still hard to fully utilize the self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Keqi Deng , Songjun Cao , Yike Zhang , Long Ma

This work explores better adaptation methods to low-resource languages using an external language model (LM) under the framework of transfer learning. We first build a language-independent ASR system in a unified sequence-to-sequence (S2S)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Hirofumi Inaguma , Jaejin Cho , Murali Karthick Baskar , Tatsuya Kawahara , Shinji Watanabe

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) implicitly learns the token sequence distribution of paired audio-transcript training data. However, it still suffers from domain shifts from training to testing, and domain adaptation is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Keqi Deng , Philip C. Woodland

The INTERSPEECH 2025 Challenge on Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Models (MLC-SLM) promotes multilingual conversational ASR with large language models (LLMs). Our previous SHNU-mASR system adopted a competitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuxiang Mei , Dongxing Xu , Jiaen Liang , Yanhua Long

End-to-end (E2E) systems for automatic speech recognition (ASR), such as RNN Transducer (RNN-T) and Listen-Attend-Spell (LAS) blend the individual components of a traditional hybrid ASR system - acoustic model, language model, pronunciation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Mahaveer Jain , Gil Keren , Jay Mahadeokar , Geoffrey Zweig , Florian Metze , Yatharth Saraf

End-to-end (E2E) spoken language understanding (SLU) can infer semantics directly from speech signal without cascading an automatic speech recognizer (ASR) with a natural language understanding (NLU) module. However, paired utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Yao Qian , Ximo Bian , Yu Shi , Naoyuki Kanda , Leo Shen , Zhen Xiao , Michael Zeng

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

An end-to-end (E2E) ASR model implicitly learns a prior Internal Language Model (ILM) from the training transcripts. To fuse an external LM using Bayes posterior theory, the log likelihood produced by the ILM has to be accurately estimated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Yufei Liu , Rao Ma , Haihua Xu , Yi He , Zejun Ma , Weibin Zhang

We present a state-of-the-art end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model. We learn to listen and write characters with a joint Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) and attention-based encoder-decoder network. The encoder is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe , Yu Zhang , William Chan

We study training a single end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for three languages used in Kazakhstan: Kazakh, Russian, and English. We first describe the development of multilingual E2E ASR based on Transformer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-04 Saida Mussakhojayeva , Yerbolat Khassanov , Huseyin Atakan Varol

With the massive developments of end-to-end (E2E) neural networks, recent years have witnessed unprecedented breakthroughs in automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, the codeswitching phenomenon remains a major obstacle that hinders…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Tzu-Ting Yang , Hsin-Wei Wang , Yi-Cheng Wang , Chi-Han Lin , Berlin Chen

End-to-end neural network systems for automatic speech recognition (ASR) are trained from acoustic features to text transcriptions. In contrast to modular ASR systems, which contain separately-trained components for acoustic modeling,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yonatan Belinkov , Ahmed Ali , James Glass

Recently, the speech community is seeing a significant trend of moving from deep neural network based hybrid modeling to end-to-end (E2E) modeling for automatic speech recognition (ASR). While E2E models achieve the state-of-the-art results…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Jinyu Li

End-to-end (E2E) models fold the acoustic, pronunciation and language models of a conventional speech recognition model into one neural network with a much smaller number of parameters than a conventional ASR system, thus making it suitable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Bo Li , Shuo-yiin Chang , Tara N. Sainath , Ruoming Pang , Yanzhang He , Trevor Strohman , Yonghui Wu

This paper presents a novel deep learning architecture for acoustic model in the context of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), termed as MixNet. Besides the conventional layers, such as fully connected layers in DNN-HMM and memory cells in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-03 Vishwanath Pratap Singh , Shakti P. Rath , Abhishek Pandey

Encoder-decoder based sequence-to-sequence models have demonstrated state-of-the-art results in end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR). Recently, the transformer architecture, which uses self-attention to model temporal context…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Niko Moritz , Takaaki Hori , Jonathan Le Roux