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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

End-to-end (E2E) systems have played a more and more important role in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and achieved great performance. However, E2E systems recognize output word sequences directly with the input acoustic feature, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Qi Liu , Zhehuai Chen , Hao Li , Mingkun Huang , Yizhou Lu , Kai Yu

We present a novel large-context end-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E-ASR) model and its effective training method based on knowledge distillation. Common E2E-ASR models have mainly focused on utterance-level processing in which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Ryo Masumura , Naoki Makishima , Mana Ihori , Akihiko Takashima , Tomohiro Tanaka , Shota Orihashi

Advances in machine learning have made it possible to perform various text and speech processing tasks, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), in an end-to-end (E2E) manner. E2E approaches utilizing pre-trained models are gaining…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Yukiya Hono , Koh Mitsuda , Tianyu Zhao , Kentaro Mitsui , Toshiaki Wakatsuki , Kei Sawada

Personal rare word recognition in end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (E2E ASR) models is a challenge due to the lack of training data. A standard way to address this issue is with shallow fusion methods at inference time. However, due…

Recently, end-to-end (E2E) models become a competitive alternative to the conventional hybrid automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. However, they still suffer from speaker mismatch in training and testing condition. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Zhiyun Fan , Jie Li , Shiyu Zhou , Bo Xu

End-2-end (E2E) models have become increasingly popular in some ASR tasks because of their performance and advantages. These E2E models directly approximate the posterior distribution of tokens given the acoustic inputs. Consequently, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Jesús Andrés-Ferrer , Dario Albesano , Puming Zhan , Paul Vozila

Transformer-based models have recently made significant achievements in the application of end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR). It is possible to deploy the E2E ASR system on smart devices with the help of Transformer-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Haoyu Tang , Zhaoyi Liu , Chang Zeng , Xinfeng Li

The end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are often required to operate in reverberant conditions, where the long-term sub-band envelopes of the speech are temporally smeared. In this paper, we develop a feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Rohit Kumar , Anurenjan Purushothaman , Anirudh Sreeram , Sriram Ganapathy

Training Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models under federated learning (FL) settings has attracted a lot of attention recently. However, the FL scenarios often presented in the literature are artificial and fail to capture the…

End-to-end (E2E) models have shown to outperform state-of-the-art conventional models for streaming speech recognition [1] across many dimensions, including quality (as measured by word error rate (WER)) and endpointer latency [2]. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Bo Li , Anmol Gulati , Jiahui Yu , Tara N. Sainath , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Arun Narayanan , Shuo-Yiin Chang , Ruoming Pang , Yanzhang He , James Qin , Wei Han , Qiao Liang , Yu Zhang , Trevor Strohman , Yonghui Wu

In this paper, we show that a simple self-supervised pre-trained audio model can achieve comparable inference efficiency to more complicated pre-trained models with speech transformer encoders. These speech transformers rely on mixing…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Sungho Jeon , Ching-Feng Yeh , Hakan Inan , Wei-Ning Hsu , Rashi Rungta , Yashar Mehdad , Daniel Bikel

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become increasingly ubiquitous on modern edge devices. Past work developed streaming End-to-End (E2E) all-neural speech recognizers that can run compactly on edge devices. However, E2E ASR models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Dilin Wang , Yuan Shangguan , Haichuan Yang , Pierce Chuang , Jiatong Zhou , Meng Li , Ganesh Venkatesh , Ozlem Kalinli , Vikas Chandra

End-to-end (E2E) systems have achieved competitive results compared to conventional hybrid hidden Markov model (HMM)-deep neural network based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Such E2E systems are attractive due to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Kartik Audhkhasi , Andrew Rosenberg , Abhinav Sethy , Bhuvana Ramabhadran , Brian Kingsbury

Transformer has shown promising results in many sequence to sequence transformation tasks recently. It utilizes a number of feed-forward self-attention layers to replace the recurrent neural networks (RNN) in attention-based encoder decoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Pan Zhou , Ruchao Fan , Wei Chen , Jia Jia

The network architecture of end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) can be classified into several models, including connectionist temporal classification (CTC), recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T), attention mechanism,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Yui Sudo , Muhammad Shakeel , Brian Yan , Jiatong Shi , Shinji Watanabe

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

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) models have become standard practice for various commercial applications. However, in real-world scenarios, the long-tailed nature of word distribution often leads E2E ASR models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yi-Cheng Wang , Li-Ting Pai , Bi-Cheng Yan , Hsin-Wei Wang , Chi-Han Lin , Berlin Chen

Transformer-based models have demonstrated their effectiveness in automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks and even shown superior performance over the conventional hybrid framework. The main idea of Transformers is to capture the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Kun Wei , Pengcheng Guo , Ning Jiang

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