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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech translation (ST) can both use neural transducers as the model structure. It is thus possible to use a single transducer model to perform both tasks. In real-world applications, such joint ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Peidong Wang , Eric Sun , Jian Xue , Yu Wu , Long Zhou , Yashesh Gaur , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li

Although the deep integration of the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system with Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly improved accuracy, the deployment of such systems in low-latency streaming scenarios remains challenging. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yinfeng Xia , Jian Tang , Junfeng Hou , Gaopeng Xu , Haitao Yao

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

Using end-to-end models for speech translation (ST) has increasingly been the focus of the ST community. These models condense the previously cascaded systems by directly converting sound waves into translated text. However, cascaded models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Orion Weller , Matthias Sperber , Christian Gollan , Joris Kluivers

Voice conversion models have developed for decades, and current mainstream research focuses on non-streaming voice conversion. However, streaming voice conversion is more suitable for practical application scenarios than non-streaming voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Ziyi Chen , Haoran Miao , Pengyuan Zhang

In this paper, we propose methods for improving the modeling performance of a Transformer-based non-autoregressive text-to-speech (TNA-TTS) model. Although the text encoder and audio decoder handle different types and lengths of data (i.e.,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Jae-Sung Bae , Tae-Jun Bak , Young-Sun Joo , Hoon-Young Cho

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has seen remarkable progress, with models like OpenAI Whisper and NVIDIA Canary achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in offline transcription. However, these models are not designed for streaming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tomer Krichli , Bhiksha Raj , Joseph Keshet

Neural transducers have been widely used in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this paper, we introduce it to streaming end-to-end speech translation (ST), which aims to convert audio signals to texts in other languages directly.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jian Xue , Peidong Wang , Jinyu Li , Matt Post , Yashesh Gaur

Transducer is one of the mainstream frameworks for streaming speech recognition. There is a performance gap between the streaming and non-streaming transducer models due to limited context. To reduce this gap, an effective way is to ensure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Haitao Tang , Yu Fu , Lei Sun , Jiabin Xue , Dan Liu , Yongchao Li , Zhiqiang Ma , Minghui Wu , Jia Pan , Genshun Wan , Ming'en Zhao

Streaming generation models are utilized across fields, with the Transducer architecture being popular in industrial applications. However, its input-synchronous decoding mechanism presents challenges in tasks requiring non-monotonic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhengrui Ma , Yang Feng , Min Zhang

This paper proposes Transducers with Pronunciation-aware Embeddings (PET). Unlike conventional Transducers where the decoder embeddings for different tokens are trained independently, the PET model's decoder embedding incorporates shared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Hainan Xu , Zhehuai Chen , Fei Jia , Boris Ginsburg

This paper introduces a fast-slow encoder based transducer with streaming deliberation for end-to-end automatic speech recognition. We aim to improve the recognition accuracy of the fast-slow encoder based transducer while keeping its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Ke Li , Jay Mahadeokar , Jinxi Guo , Yangyang Shi , Gil Keren , Ozlem Kalinli , Michael L. Seltzer , Duc Le

Streaming ASR with strict latency constraints is required in many speech recognition applications. In order to achieve the required latency, streaming ASR models sacrifice accuracy compared to non-streaming ASR models due to lack of future…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Jay Mahadeokar , Yangyang Shi , Ke Li , Duc Le , Jiedan Zhu , Vikas Chandra , Ozlem Kalinli , Michael L Seltzer

In real-world applications, users often require both translations and transcriptions of speech to enhance their comprehension, particularly in streaming scenarios where incremental generation is necessary. This paper introduces a streaming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Sara Papi , Peidong Wang , Junkun Chen , Jian Xue , Jinyu Li , Yashesh Gaur

Having a sequence-to-sequence model which can operate in an online fashion is important for streaming applications such as Voice Search. Neural transducer is a streaming sequence-to-sequence model, but has shown a significant degradation in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Tara N. Sainath , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Anjuli Kannan , Yonghui Wu , Patrick Nguyen , Zhifeng Chen

Interactive speech recognition systems must generate words quickly while also producing accurate results. Two-pass models excel at these requirements by employing a first-pass decoder that quickly emits words, and a second-pass decoder that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Ke Hu , Ruoming Pang , Tara N. Sainath , Trevor Strohman

Cascaded speech-to-speech translation systems often suffer from the error accumulation problem and high latency, which is a result of cascaded modules whose inference delays accumulate. In this paper, we propose a transducer-based speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Jinzheng Zhao , Niko Moritz , Egor Lakomkin , Ruiming Xie , Zhiping Xiu , Katerina Zmolikova , Zeeshan Ahmed , Yashesh Gaur , Duc Le , Christian Fuegen

Disfluency detection has mainly been solved in a pipeline approach, as post-processing of speech recognition. In this study, we propose Transformer-based encoder-decoder models that jointly solve speech recognition and disfluency detection,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Hayato Futami , Emiru Tsunoo , Kentaro Shibata , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Takao Okuda , Siddhant Arora , Shinji Watanabe

Sequence transducers, such as the RNN-T and the Conformer-T, are one of the most promising models of end-to-end speech recognition, especially in streaming scenarios where both latency and accuracy are important. Although various methods,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Yusuke Shinohara , Shinji Watanabe

Transformers have been the dominant architecture for Speech Translation in recent years, achieving significant improvements in translation quality. Since speech signals are longer than their textual counterparts, and due to the quadratic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Ioannis Tsiamas , Gerard I. Gállego , José A. R. Fonollosa , Marta R. Costa-jussà