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Recent advances in unsupervised representation learning have demonstrated the impact of pretraining on large amounts of read speech. We adapt these techniques for domain adaptation in low-resource -- both in terms of data and compute --…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Chak-Fai Li , Francis Keith , William Hartmann , Matthew Snover

The transcription quality of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems degrades significantly when transcribing audios coming from unseen domains. We propose an unsupervised error correction method for unsupervised ASR domain adaption,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Long Mai , Julie Carson-Berndsen

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has shown promise in learning representations of audio that are useful for automatic speech recognition (ASR). But, training SSL models like wav2vec~2.0 requires a two-stage pipeline. In this paper we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Chaitanya Talnikar , Tatiana Likhomanenko , Ronan Collobert , Gabriel Synnaeve

This paper presents a method for selecting appropriate synthetic speech samples from a given large text-to-speech (TTS) dataset as supplementary training data for an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. We trained a neural network,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Shuo Liu , Leda Sarı , Chunyang Wu , Gil Keren , Yuan Shangguan , Jay Mahadeokar , Ozlem Kalinli

Utilizing air-traffic control (ATC) data for downstream natural-language processing tasks requires preprocessing steps. Key steps are the transcription of the data via automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker diarization, respectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Alexander Blatt , Aravind Krishnan , Dietrich Klakow

Achieving high accuracy with low latency has always been a challenge in streaming end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. By attending to more future contexts, a streaming ASR model achieves higher accuracy but results in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Huaibo Zhao , Yosuke Higuchi , Yusuke Kida , Tetsuji Ogawa , Tetsunori Kobayashi

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has progressed significantly in recent years due to the emergence of large-scale datasets and the self-supervised learning (SSL) paradigm. However, as its counterpart problem in the singing domain, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Longshen Ou , Xiangming Gu , Ye Wang

Sequence-to-sequence automatic speech recognition (ASR) models require large quantities of data to attain high performance. For this reason, there has been a recent surge in interest for unsupervised and semi-supervised training in such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Murali Karthick Baskar , Shinji Watanabe , Ramon Astudillo , Takaaki Hori , Lukáš Burget , Jan Černocký

In previous work, we developed a closed-loop speech chain model based on deep learning, in which the architecture enabled the automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) components to mutually improve their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura

Many existing works on voice conversion (VC) tasks use automatic speech recognition (ASR) models for ensuring linguistic consistency between source and converted samples. However, for the low-data resource domains, training a high-quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Mayank Kumar Singh , Naoya Takahashi , Onoe Naoyuki

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a powerful tool that allows learning of underlying representations from unlabeled data. Transformer based models such as wav2vec 2.0 and HuBERT are leading the field in the speech domain. Generally these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Bethan Thomas , Samuel Kessler , Salah Karout

In this paper we propose a novel virtual simulation-pilot engine for speeding up air traffic controller (ATCo) training by integrating different state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) based tools. The virtual simulation-pilot engine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Amrutha Prasad , Iuliia Nigmatulina , Petr Motlicek , Matthias Kleinert

Transfer learning from high-resource languages is known to be an efficient way to improve end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) for low-resource languages. Pre-trained or jointly trained encoder-decoder models, however, do not share…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Changhan Wang , Juan Pino , Jiatao Gu

For real-world deployment of automatic speech recognition (ASR), the system is desired to be capable of fast inference while relieving the requirement of computational resources. The recently proposed end-to-end ASR system based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Yosuke Higuchi , Hirofumi Inaguma , Shinji Watanabe , Tetsuji Ogawa , Tetsunori Kobayashi

In a pipeline speech translation system, automatic speech recognition (ASR) system will transmit errors in recognition to the downstream machine translation (MT) system. A standard machine translation system is usually trained on parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Qiao Cheng , Meiyuan Fang , Yaqian Han , Jin Huang , Yitao Duan

Previous work has shown that for low-resource source languages, automatic speech-to-text translation (AST) can be improved by pretraining an end-to-end model on automatic speech recognition (ASR) data from a high-resource language. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Mihaela C. Stoian , Sameer Bansal , Sharon Goldwater

Recent work on self-supervised pre-training focus on leveraging large-scale unlabeled speech data to build robust end-to-end (E2E) acoustic models (AM) that can be later fine-tuned on downstream tasks e.g., automatic speech recognition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Amrutha Prasad , Iuliia Nigmatulina , Saeed Sarfjoo , Petr Motlicek , Matthias Kleinert , Hartmut Helmke , Oliver Ohneiser , Qingran Zhan

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models have achieved remarkable accuracy in general settings, yet their performance often degrades in domain-specific applications due to data mismatch and linguistic variability. This challenge is…

Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) has been dominated by deep learning-based end-to-end speech recognition models. These approaches require large amounts of labeled data in the form of audio-text pairs. Moreover, these models are more…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Raviraj Joshi , Anupam Singh