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Because of predicting all the target tokens in parallel, the non-autoregressive models greatly improve the decoding efficiency of speech recognition compared with traditional autoregressive models. In this work, we present dynamic alignment…

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Text recognition methods are gaining rapid development. Some advanced techniques, e.g., powerful modules, language models, and un- and semi-supervised learning schemes, consecutively push the performance on public benchmarks forward.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Ziyin Zhang , Ning Lu , Minghui Liao , Yongshuai Huang , Cheng Li , Min Wang , Wei Peng

The recently proposed Conformer architecture has shown state-of-the-art performances in Automatic Speech Recognition by combining convolution with attention to model both local and global dependencies. In this paper, we study how to reduce…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Maxime Burchi , Valentin Vielzeuf

Recently, end-to-end models have been widely used in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Two of the most representative approaches are connectionist temporal classification (CTC) and attention-based encoder-decoder (AED) models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ruchao Fan , Wei Chu , Peng Chang , Abeer Alwan

While Transformers have achieved promising results in end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR), their autoregressive (AR) structure becomes a bottleneck for speeding up the decoding process. For real-world deployment, ASR systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-27 Keqi Deng , Zehui Yang , Shinji Watanabe , Yosuke Higuchi , Gaofeng Cheng , Pengyuan Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive technique that uses an attention-based gated scaling (AGS) scheme to improve deep feature learning for connectionist temporal classification (CTC) acoustic modeling. In AGS, the outputs of each…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-01 Fenglin Ding , Wu Guo , Lirong Dai , Jun Du

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

Recently, end-to-end automatic speech recognition models based on connectionist temporal classification (CTC) have achieved impressive results, especially when fine-tuned from wav2vec2.0 models. Due to the conditional independence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Keqi Deng , Songjun Cao , Yike Zhang , Long Ma , Gaofeng Cheng , Ji Xu , Pengyuan Zhang

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

A promising approach for steering auditory attention in complex listening environments relies on Auditory Attention Decoding (AAD), which aim to identify the attended speech stream in a multiple speaker scenario from neural recordings.…

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

Conventional automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems trained from frame-level alignments can easily leverage posterior fusion to improve ASR accuracy and build a better single model with knowledge distillation. End-to-end ASR systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Gakuto Kurata , Kartik Audhkhasi

End-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems based on neural networks have seen large improvements in recent years. The availability of large scale hand-labeled datasets and sufficient computing resources made it possible to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Maxime Burchi , Radu Timofte

Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) models are popular for their balance between speed and performance for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). However, these CTC models still struggle in other areas, such as personalization towards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Devang Kulshreshtha , Saket Dingliwal , Brady Houston , Sravan Bodapati

The success of self-attention in NLP has led to recent applications in end-to-end encoder-decoder architectures for speech recognition. Separately, connectionist temporal classification (CTC) has matured as an alignment-free,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Julian Salazar , Katrin Kirchhoff , Zhiheng Huang

The mismatch of speech length and text length poses a challenge in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In previous research, various approaches have been employed to align text with speech, including the utilization of Connectionist…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Peng Fan , Wenping Wang , Fei Deng

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

Consistency regularization (CR) improves the robustness and accuracy of Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) by ensuring predictions remain stable across input perturbations. In this work, we propose Align-Consistency, an extension…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Wanting Huang , Weiran Wang

We propose three regularization-based speaker adaptation approaches to adapt the attention-based encoder-decoder (AED) model with very limited adaptation data from target speakers for end-to-end automatic speech recognition. The first…

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