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In interactive automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, low-latency requirements limit the amount of search space that can be explored during decoding, particularly in end-to-end neural ASR. In this paper, we present a novel streaming…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-29 Denis Filimonov , Prabhat Pandey , Ariya Rastrow , Ankur Gandhe , Andreas Stolcke

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

Despite the success of Transformers, handling long contexts remains challenging due to the limited length generalization and quadratic complexity of self-attention. Thus Transformers often require post-training with a larger attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Xiang Hu , Zhihao Teng , Jun Zhao , Wei Wu , Kewei Tu

In this paper, we propose an online attention mechanism, known as cumulative attention (CA), for streaming Transformer-based automatic speech recognition (ASR). Inspired by monotonic chunkwise attention (MoChA) and head-synchronous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Mohan Li , Shucong Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla

In this paper, we describe the work that we have done to participate in Task1 of the ConferencingSpeech2021 challenge. This task set a goal to develop the solution for multi-channel speech enhancement in a real-time manner. We propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Vasiliy Kuzmin , Fyodor Kravchenko , Artem Sokolov , Jie Geng

Segmentation-based scene text detection methods have been widely adopted for arbitrary-shaped text detection recently, since they make accurate pixel-level predictions on curved text instances and can facilitate real-time inference without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Jiachen Li , Yuan Lin , Rongrong Liu , Chiu Man Ho , Humphrey Shi

Punctuated text prediction is crucial for automatic speech recognition as it enhances readability and impacts downstream natural language processing tasks. In streaming scenarios, the ability to predict punctuation in real-time is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Hanbyul Kim , Seunghyun Seo , Lukas Lee , Seolki Baek

The RNN-Transducers and improved attention-based encoder-decoder models are widely applied to streaming speech recognition. Compared with these two end-to-end models, the CTC model is more efficient in training and inference. However, it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Zhengkun Tian , Jiangyan Yi , Ye Bai , Jianhua Tao , Shuai Zhang , Zhengqi Wen

Attention-based end-to-end models such as Listen, Attend and Spell (LAS), simplify the whole pipeline of traditional automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems and become popular in the field of speech recognition. In previous work,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Ruchao Fan , Pan Zhou , Wei Chen , Jia Jia , Gang Liu

Conformer-based end-to-end models have become ubiquitous these days and are commonly used in both streaming and non-streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR). Techniques like dual-mode and dynamic chunk training helped unify streaming…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Goeric Huybrechts , Srikanth Ronanki , Xilai Li , Hadis Nosrati , Sravan Bodapati , Katrin Kirchhoff

Attention-based models have been widely used in many areas, such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, relevant applications in time series classification (TSC) have not been explored deeply yet, causing a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Bowen Zhao , Huanlai Xing , Xinhan Wang , Fuhong Song , Zhiwen Xiao

How to leverage dynamic contextual information in end-to-end speech recognition has remained an active research area. Previous solutions to this problem were either designed for specialized use cases that did not generalize well to…

In this work, we propose a streaming AV-ASR system based on a hybrid connectionist temporal classification (CTC)/attention neural network architecture. The audio and the visual encoder neural networks are both based on the conformer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Pingchuan Ma , Niko Moritz , Stavros Petridis , Christian Fuegen , Maja Pantic

Transformer-based acoustic modeling has achieved great suc-cess for both hybrid and sequence-to-sequence speech recogni-tion. However, it requires access to the full sequence, and thecomputational cost grows quadratically with respect to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Chunyang Wu , Yongqiang Wang , Yangyang Shi , Ching-Feng Yeh , Frank Zhang

Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) is a widely used method for automatic speech recognition (ASR), renowned for its simplicity and computational efficiency. However, it often falls short in recognition performance. In this work, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-17 Zengwei Yao , Wei Kang , Xiaoyu Yang , Fangjun Kuang , Liyong Guo , Han Zhu , Zengrui Jin , Zhaoqing Li , Long Lin , Daniel Povey

In this paper, we present a new on-device automatic speech recognition (ASR) system based on monotonic chunk-wise attention (MoChA) models trained with large (> 10K hours) corpus. We attained around 90% of a word recognition rate for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-06 Kwangyoun Kim , Kyungmin Lee , Dhananjaya Gowda , Junmo Park , Sungsoo Kim , Sichen Jin , Young-Yoon Lee , Jinsu Yeo , Daehyun Kim , Seokyeong Jung , Jungin Lee , Myoungji Han , Chanwoo Kim

Recent synthetic speech detectors leveraging the Transformer model have superior performance compared to the convolutional neural network counterparts. This improvement could be due to the powerful modeling ability of the multi-head…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Duc-Tuan Truong , Ruijie Tao , Tuan Nguyen , Hieu-Thi Luong , Kong Aik Lee , Eng Siong Chng

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is an essential component in conversational systems. Most SLU component treats each utterance independently, and then the following components aggregate the multi-turn information in the separate phases.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Po-Chun Chen , Ta-Chung Chi , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

Contextual biasing improves automatic speech recognition (ASR) by integrating external knowledge, such as user-specific phrases or entities, during decoding. In this work, we use an attention-based biasing decoder to produce scores for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Wanting Huang , Weiran Wang

Attention-based end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art results for numerous tasks. However, the application of self-attention and attention-based encoder-decoder models remains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Niko Moritz , Takaaki Hori , Jonathan Le Roux