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We present a state-of-the-art end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model. We learn to listen and write characters with a joint Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) and attention-based encoder-decoder network. The encoder is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe , Yu Zhang , William Chan

In this work, we propose a streaming AV-ASR system based on a hybrid connectionist temporal classification (CTC)/attention neural network architecture. The audio and the visual encoder neural networks are both based on the conformer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Pingchuan Ma , Niko Moritz , Stavros Petridis , Christian Fuegen , Maja Pantic

Recently, there has been increasing progress in end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) architecture, which transcribes speech to text without any pre-trained alignments. One popular end-to-end approach is the hybrid Connectionist…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Haoran Miao , Gaofeng Cheng , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in end-to-end speech recognition that directly transcribes speech to text without any predefined alignments. One approach is the attention-based encoder-decoder framework that learns a mapping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Suyoun Kim , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe

Accents, as variations from standard pronunciation, pose significant challenges for speech recognition systems. Although joint automatic speech recognition (ASR) and accent recognition (AR) training has been proven effective in handling…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Qijie Shao , Pengcheng Guo , Jinghao Yan , Pengfei Hu , Lei Xie

Temporal connectionist temporal classification (CTC)-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) is one of the most successful end to end (E2E) ASR frameworks. However, due to the token independence assumption in decoding, an external language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Xugang Lu , Peng Shen , Yu Tsao , Hisashi Kawai

Attention-based methods and Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) network have been promising research directions for end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). The joint CTC/Attention model has achieved great success by utilizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ruizhi Li , Xiaofei Wang , Sri Harish Mallidi , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe , Hynek Hermansky

Aiming at the problem that the spatial-temporal hierarchical continuous sign language recognition model based on deep learning has a large amount of computation, which limits the real-time application of the model, this paper proposes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Qidan Zhu , Jing Li , Fei Yuan , Quan Gan

In this work, we investigate two popular end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, namely Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) and RNN-Transducer (RNN-T), for offline recognition of voice search queries, with up to 2B…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Weiran Wang , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Dongseong Hwang , Qiujia Li , Khe Chai Sim , Bo Li , James Qin , Xingyu Cai , Adam Stooke , Zhong Meng , CJ Zheng , Yanzhang He , Tara Sainath , Pedro Moreno Mengibar

Confidence estimation of predictions from an End-to-End (E2E) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model benefits ASR's downstream and upstream tasks. Class-probability-based confidence scores do not accurately represent the quality of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Nagarathna Ravi , Thishyan Raj T , Vipul Arora

We propose Citrinet - a new end-to-end convolutional Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) based automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. Citrinet is deep residual neural model which uses 1D time-channel separable convolutions…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Somshubra Majumdar , Jagadeesh Balam , Oleksii Hrinchuk , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Vahid Noroozi , Boris Ginsburg

Connectionist Temporal Classification has recently attracted a lot of interest as it offers an elegant approach to building acoustic models (AMs) for speech recognition. The CTC loss function maps an input sequence of observable feature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Thomas Zenkel , Ramon Sanabria , Florian Metze , Jan Niehues , Matthias Sperber , Sebastian Stüker , Alex Waibel

Recently, end-to-end speech recognition with a hybrid model consisting of the connectionist temporal classification(CTC) and the attention encoder-decoder achieved state-of-the-art results. In this paper, we propose a novel CTC decoder…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Zhe Yuan , Zhuoran Lyu , Jiwei Li , Xi Zhou

The Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) has achieved great success in sequence to sequence analysis tasks such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and scene text recognition (STR). These applications can use the CTC objective…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-09 Siyuan Lu , Jinming Lu , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang

While deep learning based end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have greatly simplified modeling pipelines, they suffer from the data sparsity issue. In this work, we propose a self-training method with an end-to-end system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-31 Yang Chen , Weiran Wang , Chao Wang

Long Short Term Memory Connectionist Temporal Classification (LSTM-CTC) based end-to-end models are widely used in speech recognition due to its simplicity in training and efficiency in decoding. In conventional LSTM-CTC based models, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Yangyang Shi , Mei-Yuh Hwang , Xin Lei

We present a novel approach to end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) that utilizes pre-trained masked language models (LMs) to facilitate the extraction of linguistic information. The proposed models, BERT-CTC and BECTRA, are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Yosuke Higuchi , Tetsuji Ogawa , Tetsunori Kobayashi , Shinji Watanabe

This paper presents a novel algorithm for building an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model with imperfect training data. Imperfectly transcribed speech is a prevalent issue in human-annotated speech corpora, which degrades the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Dongji Gao , Matthew Wiesner , Hainan Xu , Leibny Paola Garcia , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) is widely used for maximum likelihood learning in end-to-end speech recognition models. However, there is usually a disparity between the negative maximum likelihood and the performance metric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Yingbo Zhou , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

In this work, we present the first study addressing automatic speech recognition (ASR) for children in an online learning setting. This is particularly important for both child-centric applications and the privacy protection of minors,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Edem Ahadzi , Vishwanath Pratap Singh , Tomi Kinnunen , Ville Hautamaki