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Inverse text normalization (ITN) is crucial for converting spoken-form into written-form, especially in the context of automatic speech recognition (ASR). While most downstream tasks of ASR rely on written-form, ASR systems often output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Juntae Kim , Minkyu Lim , Seokjin Hong

Inverse text normalization (ITN) converts spoken-domain automatic speech recognition (ASR) output into written-domain text to improve the readability of the ASR output. Many state-of-the-art ITN systems use hand-written weighted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yang Zhang , Evelina Bakhturina , Kyle Gorman , Boris Ginsburg

Inverse Text Normalization (ITN) is crucial for converting spoken Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) outputs into well-formatted written text, enhancing both readability and usability. Despite its importance, the integration of streaming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Luong Ho , Khanh Le , Vinh Pham , Bao Nguyen , Tan Tran , Duc Chau

While there have been several contributions exploring state of the art techniques for text normalization, the problem of inverse text normalization (ITN) remains relatively unexplored. The best known approaches leverage finite state…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Monica Sunkara , Chaitanya Shivade , Sravan Bodapati , Katrin Kirchhoff

Inverse text normalization (ITN) is used to convert the spoken form output of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to a written form. Traditional handcrafted ITN rules can be complex to transcribe and maintain. Meanwhile neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Laxmi Pandey , Debjyoti Paul , Pooja Chitkara , Yutong Pang , Xuedong Zhang , Kjell Schubert , Mark Chou , Shu Liu , Yatharth Saraf

With the emergence of automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, converting the spoken form text (from ASR) to the written form is in urgent need. This inverse text normalization (ITN) problem attracts the attention of researchers from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Szu-Jui Chen , Debjyoti Paul , Yutong Pang , Peng Su , Xuedong Zhang

Features such as punctuation, capitalization, and formatting of entities are important for readability, understanding, and natural language processing tasks. However, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems produce spoken-form text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Sharman Tan , Piyush Behre , Nick Kibre , Issac Alphonso , Shuangyu Chang

Inverse text normalization (ITN) is an essential post-processing step in automatic speech recognition (ASR). It converts numbers, dates, abbreviations, and other semiotic classes from the spoken form generated by ASR to their written forms.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Alexandra Antonova , Evelina Bakhturina , Boris Ginsburg

The Recurrent Neural Network-Transducer (RNN-T) is widely adopted in end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks but depends heavily on large-scale, high-quality annotated data, which are often costly and difficult to obtain.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Dongji Gao , Chenda Liao , Changliang Liu , Matthew Wiesner , Leibny Paola Garcia , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Jian Wu

Text normalization (TN) and inverse text normalization (ITN) are essential preprocessing and postprocessing steps for text-to-speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition, respectively. Many methods have been proposed for either TN or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Tuan Manh Lai , Yang Zhang , Evelina Bakhturina , Boris Ginsburg , Heng Ji

Neural transducer-based systems such as RNN Transducers (RNN-T) for automatic speech recognition (ASR) blend the individual components of a traditional hybrid ASR systems (acoustic model, language model, punctuation model, inverse text…

Punctuation and word casing prediction are necessary for automatic speech recognition (ASR). With the popularity of on-device end-to-end streaming ASR systems, the on-device punctuation and word casing prediction become a necessity while we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jian You , Xiangfeng Li

Text normalization (TN) systems in production are largely rule-based using weighted finite-state transducers (WFST). However, WFST-based systems struggle with ambiguous input when the normalized form is context-dependent. On the other hand,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Evelina Bakhturina , Yang Zhang , Boris Ginsburg

Compared to hybrid automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems that use a modular architecture in which each component can be independently adapted to a new domain, recent end-to-end (E2E) ASR system are harder to customize due to their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Samuel Thomas , Brian Kingsbury , George Saon , Hong-Kwang J. Kuo

This paper tackles several challenges that arise when integrating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Machine Translation (MT) for real-time, on-device streaming speech translation. Although state-of-the-art ASR systems based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Zeeshan Ahmed , Frank Seide , Niko Moritz , Ju Lin , Ruiming Xie , Simone Merello , Zhe Liu , Christian Fuegen

With increasingly more powerful compute capabilities and resources in today's devices, traditionally compute-intensive automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been moving from the cloud to devices to better protect user privacy. However, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Mingbin Xu , Alex Jin , Sicheng Wang , Mu Su , Tim Ng , Henry Mason , Shiyi Han , Zhihong Lei , Yaqiao Deng , Zhen Huang , Mahesh Krishnamoorthy

Neural transducers have been widely used in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this paper, we introduce it to streaming end-to-end speech translation (ST), which aims to convert audio signals to texts in other languages directly.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jian Xue , Peidong Wang , Jinyu Li , Matt Post , Yashesh Gaur

Streaming end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are widely used on smart speakers and on-device applications. Since these models are expected to transcribe speech with minimal latency, they are constrained to be causal with…

Recently self-supervised learning has emerged as an effective approach to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR). Under such a framework, the neural network is usually pre-trained with massive unlabeled data and then…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-16 Songjun Cao , Yueteng Kang , Yanzhe Fu , Xiaoshuo Xu , Sining Sun , Yike Zhang , Long Ma

There is a growing interest in the speech community in developing Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T) models for automatic speech recognition (ASR) applications. RNN-T is trained with a loss function that does not enforce temporal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Jay Mahadeokar , Yuan Shangguan , Duc Le , Gil Keren , Hang Su , Thong Le , Ching-Feng Yeh , Christian Fuegen , Michael L. Seltzer
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