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Attention-based encoder-decoder model has achieved impressive results for both automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) tasks. This approach takes advantage of the memorization capacity of neural networks to learn the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Chengyi Wang , Yu Wu , Yujiao Du , Jinyu Li , Shujie Liu , Liang Lu , Shuo Ren , Guoli Ye , Sheng Zhao , Ming Zhou

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

In this paper, we propose a single multi-task learning framework to perform End-to-End (E2E) speech recognition (ASR) and accent recognition (AR) simultaneously. The proposed framework is not only more compact but can also yield comparable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Jicheng Zhang , Yizhou Peng , Pham Van Tung , Haihua Xu , Hao Huang , Eng Siong Chng

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

End-to-end Spoken Language Understanding (E2E SLU) has attracted increasing interest due to its advantages of joint optimization and low latency when compared to traditionally cascaded pipelines. Existing E2E SLU models usually follow a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Xuandi Fu , Feng-Ju Chang , Martin Radfar , Kai Wei , Jing Liu , Grant P. Strimel , Kanthashree Mysore Sathyendra

Language identification is critical for many downstream tasks in automatic speech recognition (ASR), and is beneficial to integrate into multilingual end-to-end ASR as an additional task. In this paper, we propose to modify the structure of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Chao Zhang , Bo Li , Tara Sainath , Trevor Strohman , Sepand Mavandadi , Shuo-yiin Chang , Parisa Haghani

In this paper, we present a novel two-pass approach to unify streaming and non-streaming end-to-end (E2E) speech recognition in a single model. Our model adopts the hybrid CTC/attention architecture, in which the conformer layers in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Binbin Zhang , Di Wu , Zhuoyuan Yao , Xiong Wang , Fan Yu , Chao Yang , Liyong Guo , Yaguang Hu , Lei Xie , Xin Lei

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems directly map acoustics to words using a unified model. Previous works mostly focus on E2E training a single model which integrates acoustic and language model into a whole.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Zhehuai Chen , Qi Liu , Hao Li , Kai Yu

We propose a method of segmenting long-form speech by separating semantically complete sentences within the utterance. This prevents the ASR decoder from needlessly processing faraway context while also preventing it from missing relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 W. Ronny Huang , Hao Zhang , Shankar Kumar , Shuo-yiin Chang , Tara N. Sainath

Thus far, end-to-end (E2E) models have not been shown to outperform state-of-the-art conventional models with respect to both quality, i.e., word error rate (WER), and latency, i.e., the time the hypothesis is finalized after the user stops…

Named entity recognition (NER) from text has been a widely studied problem and usually extracts semantic information from text. Until now, NER from speech is mostly studied in a two-step pipeline process that includes first applying an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Hemant Yadav , Sreyan Ghosh , Yi Yu , Rajiv Ratn Shah

The advances in attention-based encoder-decoder (AED) networks have brought great progress to end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR). One way to further improve the performance of AED-based E2E ASR is to introduce an extra text…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Wei Wang , Shuo Ren , Yao Qian , Shujie Liu , Yu Shi , Yanmin Qian , Michael Zeng

This article describes an efficient end-to-end speech translation (E2E-ST) framework based on non-autoregressive (NAR) models. End-to-end speech translation models have several advantages over traditional cascade systems such as inference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-10 Hirofumi Inaguma , Yosuke Higuchi , Kevin Duh , Tatsuya Kawahara , Shinji Watanabe

ASR endpointing (EP) plays a major role in delivering a good user experience in products supporting human or artificial agents in human-human/machine conversations. Transducer-based ASR (T-ASR) is an end-to-end (E2E) ASR modelling technique…

Despite recent advances in voice separation methods, many challenges remain in realistic scenarios such as noisy recording and the limits of available data. In this work, we propose to explicitly incorporate the phonetic and linguistic…

The streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are more popular and suitable for voice-based applications. However, non-streaming models provide better performance as they look at the entire audio context. To leverage the benefits…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Raviraj Joshi , Subodh Kumar

We study speech intent classification and slot filling (SICSF) by proposing to use an encoder pretrained on speech recognition (ASR) to initialize an end-to-end (E2E) Conformer-Transformer model, which achieves the new state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 He Huang , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

All-neural end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems that use a single neural network to transduce audio to word sequences have been shown to achieve state-of-the-art results on several tasks. In this work, we examine the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Arun Narayanan , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Chung-Cheng Chiu , David Rybach , Tara N. Sainath , Trevor Strohman

In this paper, we develop an efficient multi-scale network to predict action classes in partial videos in an end-to-end manner. Unlike most existing methods with offline feature generation, our method directly takes frames as input and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Xiaofa Liu , Jianqin Yin , Yuan Sun , Zhicheng Zhang , Jin Tang

Although end-to-end (E2E) trainable automatic speech recognition (ASR) has shown great success by jointly learning acoustic and linguistic information, it still suffers from the effect of domain shifts, thus limiting potential applications.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Keqi Deng , Philip C. Woodland