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Recently, end-to-end (E2E) speech recognition has become popular, since it can integrate the acoustic, pronunciation and language models into a single neural network, which outperforms conventional models. Among E2E approaches,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Zhifu Gao , Yiwu Yao , Shiliang Zhang , Jun Yang , Ming Lei , Ian McLoughlin

End-to-end (E2E) modeling is advantageous for automatic speech recognition (ASR) especially for Japanese since word-based tokenization of Japanese is not trivial, and E2E modeling is able to model character sequences directly. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Shigeki Karita , Yotaro Kubo , Michiel Adriaan Unico Bacchiani , Llion Jones

End-to-end (E2E) systems have shown comparable performance to hybrid systems for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Word timings, as a by-product of ASR, are essential in many applications, especially for subtitling and computer-aided…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Xianzhao Chen , Yist Y. Lin , Kang Wang , Yi He , Zejun Ma

Humans are capable of processing speech by making use of multiple sensory modalities. For example, the environment where a conversation takes place generally provides semantic and/or acoustic context that helps us to resolve ambiguities or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Ozan Caglayan , Ramon Sanabria , Shruti Palaskar , Loïc Barrault , Florian Metze

The attention-based encoder-decoder modeling paradigm has achieved promising results on a variety of speech processing tasks like automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS) and among others. This paradigm takes advantage of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-23 Shi-Yan Weng , Berlin Chen

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems lack the distinct language model (LM) component that characterizes traditional speech systems. While this simplifies the model architecture, it complicates the task of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Cal Peyser , Sepand Mavandadi , Tara N. Sainath , James Apfel , Ruoming Pang , Shankar Kumar

The INTERSPEECH 2025 Challenge on Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Models (MLC-SLM) promotes multilingual conversational ASR with large language models (LLMs). Our previous SHNU-mASR system adopted a competitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuxiang Mei , Dongxing Xu , Jiaen Liang , Yanhua Long

Training a high performance end-to-end speech (E2E) processing model requires an enormous amount of labeled speech data, especially in the era of data-centric artificial intelligence. However, labeled speech data are usually scarcer and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Jianqiao Lu , Wenyong Huang , Nianzu Zheng , Xingshan Zeng , Yu Ting Yeung , Xiao Chen

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become increasingly ubiquitous on modern edge devices. Past work developed streaming End-to-End (E2E) all-neural speech recognizers that can run compactly on edge devices. However, E2E ASR models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Dilin Wang , Yuan Shangguan , Haichuan Yang , Pierce Chuang , Jiatong Zhou , Meng Li , Ganesh Venkatesh , Ozlem Kalinli , Vikas Chandra

We study training a single end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for three languages used in Kazakhstan: Kazakh, Russian, and English. We first describe the development of multilingual E2E ASR based on Transformer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-04 Saida Mussakhojayeva , Yerbolat Khassanov , Huseyin Atakan Varol

Recently, end-to-end (E2E) models, which allow to take spectral vector sequences of L2 (second-language) learners' utterances as input and produce the corresponding phone-level sequences as output, have attracted much research attention in…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Tien-Hong Lo , Yao-Ting Sung , Berlin Chen

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) models have become standard practice for various commercial applications. However, in real-world scenarios, the long-tailed nature of word distribution often leads E2E ASR models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yi-Cheng Wang , Li-Ting Pai , Bi-Cheng Yan , Hsin-Wei Wang , Chi-Han Lin , Berlin Chen

On-device end-to-end (E2E) models have shown improvements over a conventional model on English Voice Search tasks in both quality and latency. E2E models have also shown promising results for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Bo Li , Tara N. Sainath , Ruoming Pang , Shuo-yiin Chang , Qiumin Xu , Trevor Strohman , Vince Chen , Qiao Liang , Heguang Liu , Yanzhang He , Parisa Haghani , Sameer Bidichandani

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E ASR) systems have significantly improved speech recognition through training on extensive datasets. Despite these advancements, they still struggle to accurately recognize domain specific words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Jiwon Suh , Injae Na , Woohwan Jung

End-to-end (E2E) models have shown to outperform state-of-the-art conventional models for streaming speech recognition [1] across many dimensions, including quality (as measured by word error rate (WER)) and endpointer latency [2]. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Bo Li , Anmol Gulati , Jiahui Yu , Tara N. Sainath , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Arun Narayanan , Shuo-Yiin Chang , Ruoming Pang , Yanzhang He , James Qin , Wei Han , Qiao Liang , Yu Zhang , Trevor Strohman , Yonghui Wu

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

Maximum mutual information (MMI) is a model selection criterion used for hidden Markov model (HMM) parameter estimation that was developed more than twenty years ago as a discriminative alternative to the maximum likelihood criterion for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-02-04 Steven Wegmann

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) models have recently demonstrated superior performance over the traditional hybrid ASR models. Training an E2E ASR model requires a large amount of data which is not only expensive but may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Amin Fazel , Wei Yang , Yulan Liu , Roberto Barra-Chicote , Yixiong Meng , Roland Maas , Jasha Droppo

Although end-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E ASR) has achieved great performance in tasks that have numerous paired data, it is still challenging to make E2E ASR robust against noisy and low-resource conditions. In this study, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Emiru Tsunoo , Kentaro Shibata , Chaitanya Narisetty , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Shinji Watanabe

With the massive developments of end-to-end (E2E) neural networks, recent years have witnessed unprecedented breakthroughs in automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, the codeswitching phenomenon remains a major obstacle that hinders…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Tzu-Ting Yang , Hsin-Wei Wang , Yi-Cheng Wang , Chi-Han Lin , Berlin Chen