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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

End-to-end (E2E) spoken language understanding (SLU) can infer semantics directly from speech signal without cascading an automatic speech recognizer (ASR) with a natural language understanding (NLU) module. However, paired utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Yao Qian , Ximo Bian , Yu Shi , Naoyuki Kanda , Leo Shen , Zhen Xiao , Michael Zeng

Speaker diarization has been mainly developed based on the clustering of speaker embeddings. However, the clustering-based approach has two major problems; i.e., (i) it is not optimized to minimize diarization errors directly, and (ii) it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Yusuke Fujita , Naoyuki Kanda , Shota Horiguchi , Yawen Xue , Kenji Nagamatsu , Shinji Watanabe

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is widely used in consumer electronics. ASR greatly improves the utility and accessibility of technology, but usually the output is only word sequences without punctuation. This can result in ambiguity in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Andrew Silva , Barry-John Theobald , Nicholas Apostoloff

Speech enhancement aims to improve the perceptual quality of the speech signal by suppression of the background noise. However, excessive suppression may lead to speech distortion and speaker information loss, which degrades the performance…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Yi Ma , Kong Aik Lee , Ville Hautamaki , Haizhou Li

Recent studies of streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T)-based systems have fed the encoder with past contextual information in order to improve its word error rate (WER) performance. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Alejandro Gomez-Alanis , Lukas Drude , Andreas Schwarz , Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan , Simon Wiesler

We present an end-to-end deep network model that performs meeting diarization from single-channel audio recordings. End-to-end diarization models have the advantage of handling speaker overlap and enabling straightforward handling of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Soumi Maiti , Hakan Erdogan , Kevin Wilson , Scott Wisdom , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey

Precise detection of speech endpoints is an important factor which affects the performance of the systems where speech utterances need to be extracted from the speech signal such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system. Existing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-26 Tanmoy Roy , Tshilidzi Marwala , Snehashish Chakraverty

Recently, end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have garnered tremendous attention because of their great success and unified modeling paradigms in comparison to conventional hybrid DNN-HMM ASR systems. Despite the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Tien-Hong Lo , Shi-Yan Weng , Hsiu-Jui Chang , Berlin Chen

Accurate, low-latency endpointing is crucial for effective spoken dialogue systems. While traditional endpointers often rely on spectrum-based audio features, this work proposes real-time speech endpointing for multi-turn dialogues using…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Sathvik Udupa , Shinji Watanabe , Petr Schwarz , Jan Cernocky

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective framework for multilingual end-to-end speech translation (ST), in which speech utterances in source languages are directly translated to the desired target languages with a universal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Hirofumi Inaguma , Kevin Duh , Tatsuya Kawahara , Shinji Watanabe

Recurrent neural network transducers (RNN-T) have been successfully applied in end-to-end speech recognition. However, the recurrent structure makes it difficult for parallelization . In this paper, we propose a self-attention transducer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Zhengkun Tian , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Ye Bai , Zhengqi Wen

End-to-end automatic speech recognition systems represent the state of the art, but they rely on thousands of hours of manually annotated speech for training, as well as heavyweight computation for inference. Of course, this impedes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Raphael Tang , Karun Kumar , Gefei Yang , Akshat Pandey , Yajie Mao , Vladislav Belyaev , Madhuri Emmadi , Craig Murray , Ferhan Ture , Jimmy Lin

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

TV subtitles are a rich source of transcriptions of many types of speech, ranging from read speech in news reports to conversational and spontaneous speech in talk shows and soaps. However, subtitles are not verbatim (i.e. exact)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Jakob Poncelet , Hugo Van hamme

Speaker anonymization aims to conceal cues to speaker identity while preserving linguistic content. Current machine learning based approaches require substantial computational resources, hindering real-time streaming applications. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Waris Quamer , Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) systems are gaining popularity over cascaded approaches due to their simplicity and ability to avoid error propagation. However, these systems model sequence labeling as a sequence prediction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Siddhant Arora , Siddharth Dalmia , Brian Yan , Florian Metze , Alan W Black , Shinji Watanabe

In this paper, we present a conditional multitask learning method for end-to-end neural speaker diarization (EEND). The EEND system has shown promising performance compared with traditional clustering-based methods, especially in the case…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Yuki Takashima , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Shota Horiguchi , Paola García , Kenji Nagamatsu

In this work, we propose a new automatic speech recognition (ASR) system based on feature learning and an end-to-end training procedure for air traffic control (ATC) systems. The proposed model integrates the feature learning block,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Peng Fan , Dongyue Guo , Yi Lin , Bo Yang , Jianwei Zhang

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