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End-to-end models are favored in automatic speech recognition (ASR) because of its simplified system structure and superior performance. Among these models, recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) has achieved significant progress in…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Xiong Wang , Zhuoyuan Yao , Xian Shi , Lei Xie

The recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) has recently become the mainstream end-to-end approach for streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR). To estimate the output distributions over subword units, RNN-T uses a fully connected…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Chao Zhang , Bo Li , Zhiyun Lu , Tara N. Sainath , Shuo-yiin Chang

Speech recognition on smart devices is challenging owing to the small memory footprint. Hence small size ASR models are desirable. With the use of popular transducer-based models, it has become possible to practically deploy streaming…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Nauman Dawalatabad , Tushar Vatsal , Ashutosh Gupta , Sungsoo Kim , Shatrughan Singh , Dhananjaya Gowda , Chanwoo Kim

Transformer-based text to speech (TTS) model (e.g., Transformer TTS~\cite{li2019neural}, FastSpeech~\cite{ren2019fastspeech}) has shown the advantages of training and inference efficiency over RNN-based model (e.g.,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Mingjian Chen , Xu Tan , Yi Ren , Jin Xu , Hao Sun , Sheng Zhao , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

The recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) is a prominent streaming end-to-end (E2E) ASR technology. In RNN-T, the acoustic encoder commonly consists of stacks of LSTMs. Very recently, as an alternative to LSTM layers, the Conformer…

Streaming recognition and segmentation of multi-party conversations with overlapping speech is crucial for the next generation of voice assistant applications. In this work we address its challenges discovered in the previous work on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Ilya Sklyar , Anna Piunova , Christian Osendorfer

The Streaming Unmixing and Recognition Transducer (SURT) model was proposed recently as an end-to-end approach for continuous, streaming, multi-talker speech recognition (ASR). Despite impressive results on multi-turn meetings, SURT has…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Desh Raj , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

We propose a self-speaker adaptation method for streaming multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) that eliminates the need for explicit speaker queries. Unlike conventional approaches requiring target speaker embeddings or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Weiqing Wang , Taejin Park , Ivan Medennikov , Jinhan Wang , Kunal Dhawan , He Huang , Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

The Streaming Unmixing and Recognition Transducer (SURT) has recently become a popular framework for continuous, streaming, multi-talker speech recognition (ASR). With advances in architecture, objectives, and mixture simulation methods, it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Desh Raj , Matthew Wiesner , Matthew Maciejewski , Leibny Paola Garcia-Perera , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

End-to-end approaches have drawn much attention recently for significantly simplifying the construction of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. RNN transducer (RNN-T) is one of the popular end-to-end methods. Previous studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Senmao Wang , Pan Zhou , Wei Chen , Jia Jia , Lei Xie

We present Bifocal RNN-T, a new variant of the Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T) architecture designed for improved inference time latency on speech recognition tasks. The architecture enables a dynamic pivot for its runtime…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Jonathan Macoskey , Grant P. Strimel , Ariya Rastrow

Multi-talker speech recognition (MT-ASR) has been shown to improve ASR performance on speech containing overlapping utterances from more than one speaker. Multi-talker models have typically been trained from scratch using simulated or…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Richard Rose , Oscar Chang , Olivier Siohan

We develop streaming keyword spotting systems using a recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) model: an all-neural, end-to-end trained, sequence-to-sequence model which jointly learns acoustic and language model components. Our models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Yanzhang He , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Kanishka Rao , Wei Li , Anton Bakhtin , Ian McGraw

Neural transducer (RNNT)-based target-speaker speech recognition (TS-RNNT) directly transcribes a target speaker's voice from a multi-talker mixture. It is a promising approach for streaming applications because it does not incur the extra…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Takafumi Moriya , Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takanori Ashihara , Kohei Matsuura , Tomohiro Tanaka , Ryo Masumura , Atsunori Ogawa , Taichi Asami

Transfer learning (TL) is widely used in conventional hybrid automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, to transfer the knowledge from source to target language. TL can be applied to end-to-end (E2E) ASR system such as recurrent neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Vikas Joshi , Rui Zhao , Rupesh R. Mehta , Kshitiz Kumar , Jinyu Li

Bootstrapping speech recognition on limited data resources has been an area of active research for long. The recent transition to all-neural models and end-to-end (E2E) training brought along particular challenges as these models are known…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Manuel Giollo , Deniz Gunceler , Yulan Liu , Daniel Willett

Thus far, end-to-end (E2E) models have not been shown to outperform state-of-the-art conventional models with respect to both quality, i.e., word error rate (WER), and latency, i.e., the time the hypothesis is finalized after the user stops…

This paper proposes a novel automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that can transcribe individual speaker's speech while identifying whether they are target or non-target speakers from multi-talker overlapped speech. Target-speaker ASR…

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

Transcribing and understanding multi-speaker conversations requires speech recognition, speaker attribution, and timestamp localization. While speech LLMs excel at single-speaker tasks, multi-speaker scenarios remain challenging due to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Zhennan Lin , Shuai Wang , Zhaokai Sun , Pengyuan Xie , Chuan Xie , Jie Liu , Qiang Zhang , Lei Xie