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This paper proposes a modification to RNN-Transducer (RNN-T) models for automatic speech recognition (ASR). In standard RNN-T, the emission of a blank symbol consumes exactly one input frame; in our proposed method, we introduce additional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-15 Hainan Xu , Fei Jia , Somshubra Majumdar , Shinji Watanabe , Boris Ginsburg

Streaming end-to-end multi-talker speech recognition aims at transcribing the overlapped speech from conversations or meetings with an all-neural model in a streaming fashion, which is fundamentally different from a modular-based approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Liang Lu , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

Comprehending the overall intent of an utterance helps a listener recognize the individual words spoken. Inspired by this fact, we perform a novel study of the impact of explicitly incorporating intent representations as additional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Swayambhu Nath Ray , Minhua Wu , Anirudh Raju , Pegah Ghahremani , Raghavendra Bilgi , Milind Rao , Harish Arsikere , Ariya Rastrow , Andreas Stolcke , Jasha Droppo

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

Recently, several types of end-to-end speech recognition methods named transformer-transducer were introduced. According to those kinds of methods, transcription networks are generally modeled by transformer-based neural networks, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Jae-Jin Jeon , Eesung Kim

Sequence-to-sequence models have been widely used in end-to-end speech processing, for example, automatic speech recognition (ASR), speech translation (ST), and text-to-speech (TTS). This paper focuses on an emergent sequence-to-sequence…

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, including both attention-based models and the recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T), have shown superior performance compared to conventional systems. However, previous studies…

This paper presents a novel streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) framework for multi-talker overlapping speech captured by a distant microphone array with an arbitrary geometry. Our framework, named t-SOT-VA, capitalizes on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Naoyuki Kanda , Jian Wu , Xiaofei Wang , Zhuo Chen , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka

Target-speaker speech recognition aims to recognize target-speaker speech from noisy environments with background noise and interfering speakers. This work presents a joint framework that combines time-domain target-speaker speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Jiatong Shi , Chunlei Zhang , Chao Weng , Shinji Watanabe , Meng Yu , Dong Yu

Recent studies reveal the potential of recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) for end-to-end (E2E) speech recognition. Among some most popular E2E systems including RNN-T, Attention Encoder-Decoder (AED), and Connectionist Temporal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Bin Wang , Yan Yin , Hui Lin

Overlapping speech remains a major challenge for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in real-world applications, particularly in broadcast media with dynamic, multi-speaker interactions. We propose a light-weight, target-speaker-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Aleš Pražák , Marie Kunešová , Josef Psutka

Recurrent neural transducer (RNN-T) is a promising end-to-end (E2E) model in automatic speech recognition (ASR). It has shown superior performance compared to traditional hybrid ASR systems. However, training RNN-T from scratch is still…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Mingkun Huang , Jun Zhang , Meng Cai , Yang Zhang , Jiali Yao , Yongbin You , Yi He , Zejun Ma

RNN-T models have gained popularity in the literature and in commercial systems because of their competitiveness and capability of operating in online streaming mode. In this work, we conduct an extensive study comparing several prediction…

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

The requirements for many applications of state-of-the-art speech recognition systems include not only low word error rate (WER) but also low latency. Specifically, for many use-cases, the system must be able to decode utterances in a…

Recently, fully recurrent neural network (RNN) based end-to-end models have been proven to be effective for multi-speaker speech recognition in both the single-channel and multi-channel scenarios. In this work, we explore the use of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Xuankai Chang , Wangyou Zhang , Yanmin Qian , Jonathan Le Roux , Shinji Watanabe

End-to-end (E2E) models fold the acoustic, pronunciation and language models of a conventional speech recognition model into one neural network with a much smaller number of parameters than a conventional ASR system, thus making it suitable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Bo Li , Shuo-yiin Chang , Tara N. Sainath , Ruoming Pang , Yanzhang He , Trevor Strohman , Yonghui Wu

Unification of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems reduces development and maintenance costs, but training a single model to perform well in both offline and low-latency streaming settings remains challenging. We present a Unified…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Andrei Andrusenko , Vladimir Bataev , Lilit Grigoryan , Nune Tadevosyan , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Boris Ginsburg

The RNN-Transducers and improved attention-based encoder-decoder models are widely applied to streaming speech recognition. Compared with these two end-to-end models, the CTC model is more efficient in training and inference. However, it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Zhengkun Tian , Jiangyan Yi , Ye Bai , Jianhua Tao , Shuai Zhang , Zhengqi Wen

Speaker intent detection and semantic slot filling are two critical tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU) for dialogue systems. In this paper, we describe a recurrent neural network (RNN) model that jointly performs intent detection,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Bing Liu , Ian Lane

In recent years, all-neural end-to-end approaches have obtained state-of-the-art results on several challenging automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks. However, most existing works focus on building ASR models where train and test data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Chung-Cheng Chiu , Arun Narayanan , Wei Han , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Yu Zhang , Navdeep Jaitly , Ruoming Pang , Tara N. Sainath , Patrick Nguyen , Liangliang Cao , Yonghui Wu