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This paper presents a simple end-to-end model for speech recognition, combining a convolutional network based acoustic model and a graph decoding. It is trained to output letters, with transcribed speech, without the need for force…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Ronan Collobert , Christian Puhrsch , Gabriel Synnaeve

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

End-to-end speech recognition is a promising technology for enabling compact automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems since it can unify the acoustic and language model into a single neural network. However, as a drawback, training of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yotaro Kubo , Shigeki Karita , Michiel Bacchiani

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 modelling approaches with multiple stream inputs have been achieved great success in various automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks. An important issue associated with such approaches is that the intermediate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-11 Jin Li , Rongfeng Su , Xurong Xie , Nan Yan , Lan Wang

In recent years, End-to-End speech recognition technology based on deep learning has developed rapidly. Due to the lack of Turkish speech data, the performance of Turkish speech recognition system is poor. Firstly, this paper studies a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zeyu Ren , Nurmement Yolwas , Huiru Wang , Wushour Slamu

Contextual ASR or hotword customization holds substantial practical value. Despite the impressive performance of current end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, they often face challenges in accurately recognizing rare…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Guanrou Yang , Ziyang Ma , Zhifu Gao , Shiliang Zhang , Xie Chen

End-to-end speech recognition generally uses hand-engineered acoustic features as input and excludes the feature extraction module from its joint optimization. To extract learnable and adaptive features and mitigate information loss, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Max W. Y. Lam , Jun Wang , Chao Weng , Dan Su , Dong Yu

This paper presents a method to train end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models using unpaired data. Although the end-to-end approach can eliminate the need for expert knowledge such as pronunciation dictionaries to build ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Takaaki Hori , Ramon Astudillo , Tomoki Hayashi , Yu Zhang , Shinji Watanabe , Jonathan Le Roux

In this paper, a multilingual end-to-end framework, called as ATCSpeechNet, is proposed to tackle the issue of translating communication speech into human-readable text in air traffic control (ATC) systems. In the proposed framework, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Yi Lin , Bo Yang , Linchao Li , Dongyue Guo , Jianwei Zhang , Hu Chen , Yi Zhang

Deep neural networks can learn complex and abstract representations, that are progressively obtained by combining simpler ones. A recent trend in speech and speaker recognition consists in discovering these representations starting from raw…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-26 Mirco Ravanelli , Yoshua Bengio

End-to-end acoustic speech recognition has quickly gained widespread popularity and shows promising results in many studies. Specifically the joint transformer/CTC model provides very good performance in many tasks. However, under noisy and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Wentao Yu , Steffen Zeiler , Dorothea Kolossa

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention from the research community due to their exceptional performance and generalization capabilities. In this paper, we introduce a novel method for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Egor Lakomkin , Chunyang Wu , Yassir Fathullah , Ozlem Kalinli , Michael L. Seltzer , Christian Fuegen

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are primarily evaluated on transcription accuracy. However, in some use cases such as subtitling, verbatim transcription would reduce output readability given limited screen size and reading time.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Danni Liu , Jan Niehues , Gerasimos Spanakis

Current state-of-the-art speech recognition systems build on recurrent neural networks for acoustic and/or language modeling, and rely on feature extraction pipelines to extract mel-filterbanks or cepstral coefficients. In this paper we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Neil Zeghidour , Qiantong Xu , Vitaliy Liptchinsky , Nicolas Usunier , Gabriel Synnaeve , Ronan Collobert

The recent emergence of joint CTC-Attention model shows significant improvement in automatic speech recognition (ASR). The improvement largely lies in the modeling of linguistic information by decoder. The decoder joint-optimized with an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Mengyuan Zhao , Zhiyong Zhang , Jing Xiao

Traditional visual speech recognition systems consist of two stages, feature extraction and classification. Recently, several deep learning approaches have been presented which automatically extract features from the mouth images and aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Stavros Petridis , Zuwei Li , Maja Pantic

Recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) demonstrated how end-to-end systems are able to achieve state-of-the-art performance. There is a trend towards deeper neural networks, however those ASR models are also more complex and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Ludwig Kürzinger , Edgar Ricardo Chavez Rosas , Lujun Li , Tobias Watzel , Gerhard Rigoll

Language models play a central role in automatic speech recognition (ASR), yet most methods rely on text-only models unaware of ASR error patterns. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been applied to ASR correction, but introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zijin Gu , Tatiana Likhomanenko , He Bai , Erik McDermott , Ronan Collobert , Navdeep Jaitly

Quantifying the confidence (or conversely the uncertainty) of a prediction is a highly desirable trait of an automatic system, as it improves the robustness and usefulness in downstream tasks. In this paper we investigate confidence…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-15 Dan Oneata , Alexandru Caranica , Adriana Stan , Horia Cucu