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End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, including both attention-based models and the recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T), have shown superior performance compared to conventional systems. However, previous studies…

Recurrent neural transducer (RNN-T) is a promising end-to-end (E2E) model in automatic speech recognition (ASR). It has shown superior performance compared to traditional hybrid ASR systems. However, training RNN-T from scratch is still…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Mingkun Huang , Jun Zhang , Meng Cai , Yang Zhang , Jiali Yao , Yongbin You , Yi He , Zejun Ma

We investigate training end-to-end speech recognition models with the recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T): a streaming, all-neural, sequence-to-sequence architecture which jointly learns acoustic and language model components from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Kanishka Rao , Haşim Sak , Rohit Prabhavalkar

End-to-end automatic speech recognition systems represent the state of the art, but they rely on thousands of hours of manually annotated speech for training, as well as heavyweight computation for inference. Of course, this impedes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Raphael Tang , Karun Kumar , Gefei Yang , Akshat Pandey , Yajie Mao , Vladislav Belyaev , Madhuri Emmadi , Craig Murray , Ferhan Ture , Jimmy Lin

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition models like Recurrent Neural Networks Transducer (RNN-T) are becoming a popular choice for streaming ASR applications like voice assistants. While E2E models are very effective at learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Chhavi Choudhury , Ankur Gandhe , Xiaohan Ding , Ivan Bulyko

Most of the information is stored as text, so text mining is regarded as having high commercial potential. Aiming at the semantic constraint problem of classification methods based on sparse representation, we propose a weighted recurrent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Dan Wang , Jibing Gong , Yaxi Song

Recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) is an end-to-end speech recognition framework converting input acoustic frames into a character sequence. The state-of-the-art encoder network for RNN-T is the Conformer, which can effectively…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-20 Juntae Kim , Jeehye Lee

Training deep neural networks for automatic speech recognition (ASR) requires large amounts of transcribed speech. This becomes a bottleneck for training robust models for accented speech which typically contains high variability in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Nilaksh Das , Sravan Bodapati , Monica Sunkara , Sundararajan Srinivasan , Duen Horng Chau

In this work, we investigate two popular end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, namely Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) and RNN-Transducer (RNN-T), for offline recognition of voice search queries, with up to 2B…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Weiran Wang , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Dongseong Hwang , Qiujia Li , Khe Chai Sim , Bo Li , James Qin , Xingyu Cai , Adam Stooke , Zhong Meng , CJ Zheng , Yanzhang He , Tara Sainath , Pedro Moreno Mengibar

Speech recognition on smart devices is challenging owing to the small memory footprint. Hence small size ASR models are desirable. With the use of popular transducer-based models, it has become possible to practically deploy streaming…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Nauman Dawalatabad , Tushar Vatsal , Ashutosh Gupta , Sungsoo Kim , Shatrughan Singh , Dhananjaya Gowda , Chanwoo Kim

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs), particularly long short-term memory (LSTM), have gained much attention in automatic speech recognition (ASR). Although some successful stories have been reported, training RNNs remains highly challenging,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-21 Zhiyuan Tang , Dong Wang , Zhiyong Zhang

Auto-regressive speech-text models pre-trained on interleaved text tokens and discretized speech tokens demonstrate strong speech understanding and generation, yet remain substantially less compute-efficient than text LLMs, partly due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yen-Ju Lu , Yashesh Gaur , Wei Zhou , Benjamin Muller , Jesus Villalba , Najim Dehak , Luke Zettlemoyer , Gargi Ghosh , Mike Lewis , Srinivasan Iyer , Duc Le

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are increasingly popular due to their relative architectural simplicity and competitive performance. However, even though the average accuracy of these systems may be high, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Chao-Han Huck Yang , Linda Liu , Ankur Gandhe , Yile Gu , Anirudh Raju , Denis Filimonov , Ivan Bulyko

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

Recently, end-to-end automatic speech recognition has become the mainstream approach in both industry and academia. To optimize system performance in specific scenarios, the Weighted Finite-State Transducer (WFST) is extensively used to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Wei Zhang , Tian-Hao Zhang , Chao Luo , Hui Zhou , Chao Yang , Xinyuan Qian , Xu-Cheng Yin

The requirements for many applications of state-of-the-art speech recognition systems include not only low word error rate (WER) but also low latency. Specifically, for many use-cases, the system must be able to decode utterances in a…

Recently, neural networks based purely on self-attention, such as the Vision Transformer (ViT), have been shown to outperform deep learning models constructed with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on various vision tasks, thus extending…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yuan Gong , Cheng-I Jeff Lai , Yu-An Chung , James Glass

Although automatic speech recognition (ASR) task has gained remarkable success by sequence-to-sequence models, there are two main mismatches between its training and testing that might lead to performance degradation: 1) The typically used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Nana Hou , Xiaofeng Qi , Heqing Zou , Eng Siong Chng

This work presents a large-scale audio-visual speech recognition system based on a recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) architecture. To support the development of such a system, we built a large audio-visual (A/V) dataset of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-13 Takaki Makino , Hank Liao , Yannis Assael , Brendan Shillingford , Basilio Garcia , Otavio Braga , Olivier Siohan

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) with sequence-to-sequence models has gained attention because of its simple model training compared with conventional hidden Markov model based ASR. Recently, several studies report the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Yuya Fujita , Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Motoi Omachi , Shinji Watanabe