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End-to-end models are an attractive new approach to spoken language understanding (SLU) in which the meaning of an utterance is inferred directly from the raw audio without employing the standard pipeline composed of a separately trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Loren Lugosch , Brett Meyer , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Mirco Ravanelli

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) plays a crucial role in speech-centric multimedia applications, enabling machines to comprehend spoken language in scenarios such as meetings, interviews, and customer service interactions. SLU…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Zhichao Sheng , Shilin Zhou , Chen Gong , Zhenghua Li

As Automatic Speech Processing (ASR) systems are getting better, there is an increasing interest of using the ASR output to do downstream Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, there are few open source toolkits that can be used…

End-to-end Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is proposed to infer the semantic meaning directly from audio features without intermediate text representation. Although the acoustic model component of an end-to-end SLU system can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-25 Pengwei Wang , Liangchen Wei , Yong Cao , Jinghui Xie , Yuji Cao , Zaiqing Nie

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is the problem of extracting the meaning from speech utterances. It is typically addressed as a two-step problem, where an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model is employed to convert speech into text,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Elisavet Palogiannidi , Ioannis Gkinis , George Mastrapas , Petr Mizera , Themos Stafylakis

We propose a novel deliberation-based approach to end-to-end (E2E) spoken language understanding (SLU), where a streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) model produces the first-pass hypothesis and a second-pass natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Duc Le , Akshat Shrivastava , Paden Tomasello , Suyoun Kim , Aleksandr Livshits , Ozlem Kalinli , Michael L. Seltzer

In this paper, we perform an exhaustive evaluation of different representations to address the intent classification problem in a Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) setup. We benchmark three types of systems to perform the SLU intent…

Spoken dialog systems are slowly becoming and integral part of the human experience due to their various advantages over textual interfaces. Spoken language understanding (SLU) systems are fundamental building blocks of spoken dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Akshat Gupta

Spoken language understanding (SLU) treats automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU) as a unified task and usually suffers from data scarcity. We exploit an ASR and NLU joint training method based on meta…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Yingying Gao , Junlan Feng , Chao Deng , Shilei Zhang

End-to-end (E2E) models are becoming increasingly popular for spoken language understanding (SLU) systems and are beginning to achieve competitive performance to pipeline-based approaches. However, recent work has shown that these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Siddhant Arora , Siddharth Dalmia , Xuankai Chang , Brian Yan , Alan Black , Shinji Watanabe

Much recent work on Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) falls short in at least one of three ways: models were trained on oracle text input and neglected the Automatics Speech Recognition (ASR) outputs, models were trained to predict only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Cheng-I Lai , Jin Cao , Sravan Bodapati , Shang-Wen Li

Conventional spoken language translation (SLT) systems are pipeline based systems, where we have an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system to convert the modality of source from speech to text and a Machine Translation (MT) systems to…

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a structure prediction task in the field of speech. Recently, many works on SLU that treat it as a sequence-to-sequence task have achieved great success. However, This method is not suitable for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jiliang Hu , Zuchao Li , Mengjia Shen , Haojun Ai , Sheng Li , Jun Zhang

Conventional spoken language understanding (SLU) consist of two stages, the first stage maps speech to text by automatic speech recognition (ASR), and the second stage maps text to intent by natural language understanding (NLU). End-to-end…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Haoran Wei , Fei Tao , Runze Su , Sen Yang , Ji Liu

We consider the problem of performing Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) on small devices typical of IoT applications. Our contributions are twofold. First, we outline the design of an embedded, private-by-design SLU system and show that…

Spoken language understanding (SLU) tasks have been studied for many decades in the speech research community, but have not received as much attention as lower-level tasks like speech and speaker recognition. In particular, there are not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Suwon Shon , Siddhant Arora , Chyi-Jiunn Lin , Ankita Pasad , Felix Wu , Roshan Sharma , Wei-Lun Wu , Hung-Yi Lee , Karen Livescu , Shinji Watanabe

End-to-end (E2E) spoken language understanding (SLU) systems that generate a semantic parse from speech have become more promising recently. This approach uses a single model that utilizes audio and text representations from pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Suyoun Kim , Akshat Shrivastava , Duc Le , Ju Lin , Ozlem Kalinli , Michael L. Seltzer

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is a core task in most human-machine interaction systems. With the emergence of smart homes, smart phones and smart speakers, SLU has become a key technology for the industry. In a classical SLU approach,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Thierry Desot , François Portet , Michel Vacher

In the traditional cascading architecture for spoken language understanding (SLU), it has been observed that automatic speech recognition errors could be detrimental to the performance of natural language understanding. End-to-end (E2E) SLU…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Qinglin Zhang

The goal of spoken language understanding (SLU) systems is to determine the meaning of the input speech signal, unlike speech recognition which aims to produce verbatim transcripts. Advances in end-to-end (E2E) speech modeling have made it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Hong-Kwang J. Kuo , Zoltan Tuske , Samuel Thomas , Brian Kingsbury , George Saon