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This paper proposes a novel automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that can transcribe individual speaker's speech while identifying whether they are target or non-target speakers from multi-talker overlapped speech. Target-speaker ASR…

In this paper we present an end-to-end speech recognition model with Transformer encoders that can be used in a streaming speech recognition system. Transformer computation blocks based on self-attention are used to encode both audio and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Qian Zhang , Han Lu , Hasim Sak , Anshuman Tripathi , Erik McDermott , Stephen Koo , Shankar Kumar

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in end-to-end speech recognition that directly transcribes speech to text without any predefined alignments. One approach is the attention-based encoder-decoder framework that learns a mapping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Suyoun Kim , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often have difficulty recognizing uncommon words, that appear infrequently in the training data. One promising method, to improve the recognition accuracy on such rare words, is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Feng-Ju Chang , Jing Liu , Martin Radfar , Athanasios Mouchtaris , Maurizio Omologo , Ariya Rastrow , Siegfried Kunzmann

Streaming end-to-end multi-talker speech recognition aims at transcribing the overlapped speech from conversations or meetings with an all-neural model in a streaming fashion, which is fundamentally different from a modular-based approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Liang Lu , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

Speech-to-text translation (ST), which translates source language speech into target language text, has attracted intensive attention in recent years. Compared to the traditional pipeline system, the end-to-end ST model has potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuchen Liu , Jiajun Zhang , Hao Xiong , Long Zhou , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Chengqing Zong

A new type of End-to-End system for text-dependent speaker verification is presented in this paper. Previously, using the phonetically discriminative/speaker discriminative DNNs as feature extractors for speaker verification has shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Shi-Xiong Zhang , Zhuo Chen , Yong Zhao , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention from the research community due to their exceptional performance and generalization capabilities. In this paper, we introduce a novel method for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Egor Lakomkin , Chunyang Wu , Yassir Fathullah , Ozlem Kalinli , Michael L. Seltzer , Christian Fuegen

This paper proposes the target speaker enhancement based speaker verification network (TASE-SVNet), an all neural model that couples target speaker enhancement and speaker embedding extraction for robust speaker verification (SV).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Chunlei Zhang , Meng Yu , Chao Weng , Dong Yu

We present a training scheme for streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) based on recurrent neural network transducers (RNN-T) which allows the encoder network to learn to exploit context audio from a stream, using segmented or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Andreas Schwarz , Ilya Sklyar , Simon Wiesler

This paper investigates the impact of word-based RNN language models (RNN-LMs) on the performance of end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR). In our prior work, we have proposed a multi-level LM, in which character-based and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Takaaki Hori , Jaejin Cho , Shinji Watanabe

In this work, we present a hybrid CTC/Attention model based on a ResNet-18 and Convolution-augmented transformer (Conformer), that can be trained in an end-to-end manner. In particular, the audio and visual encoders learn to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Pingchuan Ma , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

End-to-end speech recognition is a promising technology for enabling compact automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems since it can unify the acoustic and language model into a single neural network. However, as a drawback, training of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yotaro Kubo , Shigeki Karita , Michiel Bacchiani

The performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) has improved tremendously due to the application of deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite this progress, building a new ASR system remains a challenging task, requiring various resources,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Yajie Miao , Mohammad Gowayyed , Florian Metze

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

Neural transducer (RNNT)-based target-speaker speech recognition (TS-RNNT) directly transcribes a target speaker's voice from a multi-talker mixture. It is a promising approach for streaming applications because it does not incur the extra…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Takafumi Moriya , Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takanori Ashihara , Kohei Matsuura , Tomohiro Tanaka , Ryo Masumura , Atsunori Ogawa , Taichi Asami

Comprehending the overall intent of an utterance helps a listener recognize the individual words spoken. Inspired by this fact, we perform a novel study of the impact of explicitly incorporating intent representations as additional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Swayambhu Nath Ray , Minhua Wu , Anirudh Raju , Pegah Ghahremani , Raghavendra Bilgi , Milind Rao , Harish Arsikere , Ariya Rastrow , Andreas Stolcke , Jasha Droppo

Recently, end-to-end sequence-to-sequence models for speech recognition have gained significant interest in the research community. While previous architecture choices revolve around time-delay neural networks (TDNN) and long short-term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Ngoc-Quan Pham , Thai-Son Nguyen , Jan Niehues , Markus Müller , Sebastian Stüker , Alexander Waibel

Recently, language identity information has been utilized to improve the performance of end-to-end code-switching (CS) speech recognition. However, previous works use an additional language identification (LID) model as an auxiliary module,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Shuai Zhang , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengkun Tian , Jianhua Tao , Ye Bai

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