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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

Voice Assistants such as Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant typically use a two-stage Spoken Language Understanding pipeline; first, an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) component to process customer speech and generate text transcriptions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Subendhu Rongali , Beiye Liu , Liwei Cai , Konstantine Arkoudas , Chengwei Su , Wael Hamza

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) models have become standard practice for various commercial applications. However, in real-world scenarios, the long-tailed nature of word distribution often leads E2E ASR models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yi-Cheng Wang , Li-Ting Pai , Bi-Cheng Yan , Hsin-Wei Wang , Chi-Han Lin , Berlin Chen

Training a conventional automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to support multiple languages is challenging because the sub-word unit, lexicon and word inventories are typically language specific. In contrast, sequence-to-sequence models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-16 Shubham Toshniwal , Tara N. Sainath , Ron J. Weiss , Bo Li , Pedro Moreno , Eugene Weinstein , Kanishka Rao

Learning a set of tasks in sequence remains a challenge for artificial neural networks, which, in such scenarios, tend to suffer from Catastrophic Forgetting (CF). The same applies to End-to-End (E2E) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Steven Vander Eeckt , Hugo Van hamme

We previously proposed contextual spelling correction (CSC) to correct the output of end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) models with contextual information such as name, place, etc. Although CSC has achieved reasonable…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Xiaoqiang Wang , Yanqing Liu , Jinyu Li , Sheng Zhao

End-to-end speech summarization (E2E SSum) is a technique to directly generate summary sentences from speech. Compared with the cascade approach, which combines automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text summarization models, the E2E…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Kohei Matsuura , Takanori Ashihara , Takafumi Moriya , Tomohiro Tanaka , Atsunori Ogawa , Marc Delcroix , Ryo Masumura

Most end-to-end (E2E) speech recognition models are composed of encoder and decoder blocks that perform acoustic and language modeling functions. Pretrained large language models (LLMs) have the potential to improve the performance of E2E…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Shaoshi Ling , Yuxuan Hu , Shuangbei Qian , Guoli Ye , Yao Qian , Yifan Gong , Ed Lin , Michael Zeng

Recently, self-supervised pretraining has achieved impressive results in end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, the dominant sequence-to-sequence (S2S) E2E model is still hard to fully utilize the self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Keqi Deng , Songjun Cao , Yike Zhang , Long Ma

Combination approaches for speech recognition (ASR) systems cover structured sentence-level or word-based merging techniques as well as combination of model scores during beam search. In this work, we compare model combination across…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Noureldin Bayoumi , Robin Schmitt , Tina Raissi , Albert Zeyer , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

This paper presents our latest investigation on end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) for overlapped speech. We propose to train an end-to-end system conditioned on speaker embeddings and further improved by transfer learning from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Pavel Denisov , Ngoc Thang Vu

End-to-end (E2E) models have shown to outperform state-of-the-art conventional models for streaming speech recognition [1] across many dimensions, including quality (as measured by word error rate (WER)) and endpointer latency [2]. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Bo Li , Anmol Gulati , Jiahui Yu , Tara N. Sainath , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Arun Narayanan , Shuo-Yiin Chang , Ruoming Pang , Yanzhang He , James Qin , Wei Han , Qiao Liang , Yu Zhang , Trevor Strohman , Yonghui Wu

Recently, end-to-end (E2E) models, which allow to take spectral vector sequences of L2 (second-language) learners' utterances as input and produce the corresponding phone-level sequences as output, have attracted much research attention in…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Tien-Hong Lo , Yao-Ting Sung , Berlin Chen

End-to-end (E2E) models have gained attention in the research field of automatic speech recognition (ASR). Many E2E models proposed so far assume left-to-right autoregressive generation of an output token sequence except for connectionist…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Yuya Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Motoi Omachi , Xuankai Chan

It is challenging to extract semantic meanings directly from audio signals in spoken language understanding (SLU), due to the lack of textual information. Popular end-to-end (E2E) SLU models utilize sequence-to-sequence automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Jixuan Wang , Martin Radfar , Kai Wei , Clement Chung

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has undergone a profound transformation over the past decade, driven by advances in deep learning. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of the modern era of ASR, charting its evolution from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Md. Nayeem , Md Shamse Tabrej , Kabbojit Jit Deb , Shaonti Goswami , Md. Azizul Hakim

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E-ASR) can be classified by its decoder architectures, such as connectionist temporal classification (CTC), recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T), attention-based encoder-decoder, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Yui Sudo , Muhammad Shakeel , Yosuke Fukumoto , Brian Yan , Jiatong Shi , Yifan Peng , Shinji Watanabe

End-to-end (E2E) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models are trained using paired audio-text samples that are expensive to obtain, since high-quality ground-truth data requires human annotators. Voice search applications, such as digital…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Christophe Van Gysel , Maggie Wu , Lyan Verwimp , Caglar Tirkaz , Marco Bertola , Zhihong Lei , Youssef Oualil

End-to-end (E2E) speech recognition architectures assemble all components of traditional speech recognition system into a single model. Although it simplifies ASR system, it introduces contextual ASR drawback: the E2E model has worse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Zhengyi Zhang , Pan Zhou

Bootstrapping speech recognition on limited data resources has been an area of active research for long. The recent transition to all-neural models and end-to-end (E2E) training brought along particular challenges as these models are known…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Manuel Giollo , Deniz Gunceler , Yulan Liu , Daniel Willett