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There is growing interest in unifying the streaming and full-context automatic speech recognition (ASR) networks into a single end-to-end ASR model to simplify the model training and deployment for both use cases. While in real-world ASR…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Chunxi Liu , Yuan Shangguan , Haichuan Yang , Yangyang Shi , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Ozlem Kalinli

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (MS-ASR) faces significant challenges in transcribing overlapped speech, a task critical for applications like meeting transcription and conversational analysis. While serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Yuke Lin , Ming Cheng , Ze Li , Beilong Tang , Ming Li

Speech transcription, emotion recognition, and language identification are usually considered to be three different tasks. Each one requires a different model with a different architecture and training process. We propose using a recurrent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Zvi Kons , Hagai Aronowitz , Edmilson Morais , Matheus Damasceno , Hong-Kwang Kuo , Samuel Thomas , George Saon

While large language models (LLMs) have been applied to automatic speech recognition (ASR), the task of making the model streamable remains a challenge. This paper proposes a novel model architecture, Transducer-Llama, that integrates LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Keqi Deng , Jinxi Guo , Yingyi Ma , Niko Moritz , Philip C. Woodland , Ozlem Kalinli , Mike Seltzer

Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) aims to transcribe speech while assigning transcripts to the corresponding speakers accurately. Existing methods often rely on complex modular systems or require extensive fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Thai-Binh Nguyen , Alexander Waibel

Speech recognition and speech synthesis models are typically trained separately, each with its own set of learning objectives, training data, and model parameters, resulting in two distinct large networks. We propose a parameter-efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Hawau Olamide Toyin , Hao Li , Hanan Aldarmaki

Speaker Diarization is the problem of separating speakers in an audio. There could be any number of speakers and final result should state when speaker starts and ends. In this project, we analyze given audio file with 2 channels and 2…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Vishal Sharma , Zekun Zhang , Zachary Neubert , Curtis Dyreson

The training of automatic speech recognition (ASR) with little to no supervised data remains an open question. In this work, we demonstrate that streaming Transformer-Transducer (TT) models can be trained from scratch in consumer and…

We propose automatic speech recognition (ASR) models inspired by echo state network (ESN), in which a subset of recurrent neural networks (RNN) layers in the models are randomly initialized and untrained. Our study focuses on RNN-T and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Harsh Shrivastava , Ankush Garg , Yuan Cao , Yu Zhang , Tara Sainath

Multi-channel inputs offer several advantages over single-channel, to improve the robustness of on-device speech recognition systems. Recent work on multi-channel transformer, has proposed a way to incorporate such inputs into end-to-end…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Feng-Ju Chang , Martin Radfar , Athanasios Mouchtaris , Maurizio Omologo

Although highly correlated, speech and speaker recognition have been regarded as two independent tasks and studied by two communities. This is certainly not the way that people behave: we decipher both speech content and speaker traits at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Zhiyuan Tang , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

Most approaches to multi-talker overlapped speech separation and recognition assume that the number of simultaneously active speakers is given, but in realistic situations, it is typically unknown. To cope with this, we extend an iterative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Thilo von Neumann , Christoph Boeddeker , Lukas Drude , Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

In this paper, we present a novel modeling method for single-channel multi-talker overlapped automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Fully neural network based end-to-end models have dramatically improved the performance of multi-taker…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ryo Masumura , Daiki Okamura , Naoki Makishima , Mana Ihori , Akihiko Takashima , Tomohiro Tanaka , Shota Orihashi

This paper proposes serialized output training (SOT), a novel framework for multi-speaker overlapped speech recognition based on an attention-based encoder-decoder approach. Instead of having multiple output layers as with the permutation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Naoyuki Kanda , Yashesh Gaur , Xiaofei Wang , Zhong Meng , Takuya Yoshioka

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) typically comprises of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) followed by a natural language understanding (NLU) module. The two modules process signals in a blocking sequential fashion, i.e., the NLU…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar , Naveen Kumar , Panayiotis Georgiou , Shrikanth Narayanan

We present a TTS neural network that is able to produce speech in multiple languages. The proposed network is able to transfer a voice, which was presented as a sample in a source language, into one of several target languages. Training is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

We propose a streaming non-autoregressive (non-AR) decoding algorithm to deliberate the hypothesis alignment of a streaming RNN-T model. Our algorithm facilitates a simple greedy decoding procedure, and at the same time is capable of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Weiran Wang , Ke Hu , Tara N. Sainath

Text-to-Speech (TTS) models have advanced significantly, aiming to accurately replicate human speech's diversity, including unique speaker identities and linguistic nuances. Despite these advancements, achieving an optimal balance between…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Jinhyeok Yang , Junhyeok Lee , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Seunghun Ji , Hyeongju Kim , Juheon Lee

The recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) objective plays a major role in building today's best automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for production. Similarly to the connectionist temporal classification (CTC) objective, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Niko Moritz , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe , Jonathan Le Roux

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) commonly transcribes audio signals into sequences of characters while its performance is evaluated by measuring the word-error rate (WER). This suggests that predicting sequences of words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Jan Kremer , Lasse Borgholt , Lars Maaløe