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In this paper, we proposed to apply meta learning approach for low-resource automatic speech recognition (ASR). We formulated ASR for different languages as different tasks, and meta-learned the initialization parameters from many…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jui-Yang Hsu , Yuan-Jui Chen , Hung-yi Lee

Although great progresses have been made in automatic speech recognition (ASR), significant performance degradation is still observed when recognizing multi-talker mixed speech. In this paper, we propose and evaluate several architectures…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yanmin Qian , Xuankai Chang , Dong Yu

End-to-end models with auto-regressive decoders have shown impressive results for automatic speech recognition (ASR). These models formulate the sequence-level probability as a product of the conditional probabilities of all individual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Qiujia Li , Yu Zhang , Bo Li , Liangliang Cao , Philip C. Woodland

Attention-based sequence-to-sequence models for speech recognition jointly train an acoustic model, language model (LM), and alignment mechanism using a single neural network and require only parallel audio-text pairs. Thus, the language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-20 Jinxi Guo , Tara N. Sainath , Ron J. Weiss

Modeling the speaker variability is a key challenge for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. In this paper, the learning hidden unit contributions (LHUC) based adaptation techniques with compact speaker dependent (SD) parameters are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Xurong Xie , Xunying Liu , Hui Chen , Hongan Wang

Speech separation has been successfully applied as a frontend processing module of conversation transcription systems thanks to its ability to handle overlapped speech and its flexibility to combine with downstream tasks such as automatic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Jian Wu , Zhuo Chen , Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Takuya Yoshioka , Naoyuki Kanda , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li

In this work, we develop new self-learning techniques with an attention-based sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model for automatic speech recognition (ASR). For untranscribed speech data, the hypothesis from an ASR system must be used as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Kenichi Kumatani , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Yashesh Gaur , Robert Gmyr , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Jinyu Li , Michael Zeng

Recently, the end-to-end approach has proven its efficacy in monaural multi-speaker speech recognition. However, high word error rates (WERs) still prevent these systems from being used in practical applications. On the other hand, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-17 Xuankai Chang , Wangyou Zhang , Yanmin Qian , Jonathan Le Roux , Shinji Watanabe

Research in the past several years has boosted the performance of automatic speaker verification systems and countermeasure systems to deliver low Equal Error Rates (EERs) on each system. However, research on joint optimization of both…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Zhongwei Teng , Quchen Fu , Jules White , Maria E. Powell , Douglas C. Schmidt

We propose an end-to-end speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition model that unifies speaker counting, speech recognition, and speaker identification on monaural overlapped speech. Our model is built on serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Naoyuki Kanda , Yashesh Gaur , Xiaofei Wang , Zhong Meng , Zhuo Chen , Tianyan Zhou , Takuya Yoshioka

Machine Speech Chain, which integrates both end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) into one circle for joint training, has been proven to be effective in data augmentation by leveraging large amounts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Fengpeng Yue , Yan Deng , Lei He , Tom Ko

Multilingual end-to-end (E2E) models have shown great promise in expansion of automatic speech recognition (ASR) coverage of the world's languages. They have shown improvement over monolingual systems, and have simplified training and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Anjuli Kannan , Arindrima Datta , Tara N. Sainath , Eugene Weinstein , Bhuvana Ramabhadran , Yonghui Wu , Ankur Bapna , Zhifeng Chen , Seungji Lee

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

A simplified speech recognition system that uses the maximum mutual information (MMI) criterion is considered. End-to-end training using gradient descent is suggested, similarly to the training of connectionist temporal classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Lior Fritz , David Burshtein

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods which learn representations of data without explicit supervision have gained popularity in speech-processing tasks, particularly for single-talker applications. However, these models often have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Zili Huang , Desh Raj , Paola García , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) in multi-party meeting scenarios is one of the most valuable and challenging ASR task. It was shown that single-channel frame-level diarization with serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Mohan Shi , Jie Zhang , Zhihao Du , Fan Yu , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Li-Rong Dai

In automatic speech recognition (ASR) research, discriminative criteria have achieved superior performance in DNN-HMM systems. Given this success, the adoption of discriminative criteria is promising to boost the performance of end-to-end…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Jinchuan Tian , Jianwei Yu , Chao Weng , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu

Joint optimization of multi-channel front-end and automatic speech recognition (ASR) has attracted much interest. While promising results have been reported for various tasks, past studies on its meeting transcription application were…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Xiaofei Wang , Naoyuki Kanda , Yashesh Gaur , Zhuo Chen , Zhong Meng , Takuya Yoshioka

Mixture-of-experts (MoE) models have achieved excellent results in many tasks. However, conventional MoE models are often very large, making them challenging to deploy on resource-constrained edge devices. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Qiuming Zhao , Guangzhi Sun , Chao Zhang , Mingxing Xu , Thomas Fang Zheng

We study the problem of word-level confidence estimation in subword-based end-to-end (E2E) models for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Although prior works have proposed training auxiliary confidence models for ASR systems, they do not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 David Qiu , Qiujia Li , Yanzhang He , Yu Zhang , Bo Li , Liangliang Cao , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Deepti Bhatia , Wei Li , Ke Hu , Tara N. Sainath , Ian McGraw