Improved speech recognition model with better performance.
problem Speech recognition accuracy on Librispeech.
method Integrates an external language model with an internal LM correction.
result Over 14% relative improvement in performance.
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Sequence-to-sequence attention-based models on subword units allow simple open-vocabulary end-to-end speech recognition. In this work, we show that such models can achieve competitive results on the Switchboard 300h and LibriSpeech 1000h tasks. In particular, we report the state-of-the-art word error rates (WER) of 3.5…
Graphical lasso models ASR utterance dependencies for consistent WER estimation.
problem Modeling dependent structure among ASR utterances for accurate significance analysis.
method Graphical lasso for dependency modeling, followed by blockwise bootstrap resampling.
result Statistically consistent variance estimator of WER under mild conditions.
Streamable model improves speech recognition performance.
problem Improving speech recognition in long-form audio.
method Chunk-based attention model for streaming speech recognition.
result Streamable model maintains competitive performance and generalizes well to long-form speech.
We present SpecAugment, a simple data augmentation method for speech recognition. SpecAugment is applied directly to the feature inputs of a neural network (i.e., filter bank coefficients). The augmentation policy consists of warping the features, masking blocks of frequency channels, and masking blocks of time steps. …
In this paper, we present an end-to-end training framework for building state-of-the-art end-to-end speech recognition systems. Our training system utilizes a cluster of Central Processing Units(CPUs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The entire data reading, large scale data augmentation, neural network parameter …
Improved speech recognition with language model integration in sequence-to-sequence models.
problem Improving word error rate in speech recognition models.
method Log-linear combination of acoustic and language models with per-token renormalization.
result The proposed method shows good improvements over standard model combination on Librispeech system.
Defense against ASR attacks using dropout uncertainty.
problem Adversarial attacks on ASR systems.
method Dropout uncertainty in neural networks.
result High detection accuracy across various ASR systems and datasets.
We present Optimal Completion Distillation (OCD), a training procedure for optimizing sequence to sequence models based on edit distance. OCD is efficient, has no hyper-parameters of its own, and does not require pretraining or joint optimization with conditional log-likelihood. Given a partial sequence generated by th…
Joint Unsupervised and Supervised Training for Automatic Speech Recognition via Bilevel Optimizationcs.CL
Novel approach trains ASR models with less supervision using bilevel optimization.
problem Training acoustic models for ASR with minimal supervision.
method Bilevel optimization with unsupervised and supervised losses.
result Achieves superior performance compared to existing methods.
LSTM based language models are an important part of modern LVCSR systems as they significantly improve performance over traditional backoff language models. Incorporating them efficiently into decoding has been notoriously difficult. In this paper we present an approach based on a combination of one-pass decoding and l…
Regularization is important for end-to-end speech models, since the models are highly flexible and easy to overfit. Data augmentation and dropout has been important for improving end-to-end models in other domains. However, they are relatively under explored for end-to-end speech models. Therefore, we investigate the e…
Transformer with self-attention has achieved great success in the area of nature language processing. Recently, there have been a few studies on transformer for end-to-end speech recognition, while its application for hybrid acoustic model is still very limited. In this paper, we revisit the transformer-based hybrid ac…
Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) is widely used for maximum likelihood learning in end-to-end speech recognition models. However, there is usually a disparity between the negative maximum likelihood and the performance metric used in speech recognition, e.g., word error rate (WER). This results in a mismatch…
In this paper, we propose a refined multi-stage multi-task training strategy to improve the performance of online attention-based encoder-decoder (AED) models. A three-stage training based on three levels of architectural granularity namely, character encoder, byte pair encoding (BPE) based encoder, and attention decod…
This research tackles uncertainty estimation in autoregressive structured prediction tasks.
problem Ensuring safety and robustness of AI systems through accurate uncertainty estimation.
method Develops a unified probabilistic ensemble-based framework for token-level and sequence-level uncertainty estimation.
result Provides baselines for error and out-of-domain detection on translation and speech recognition datasets.
In order to efficiently transmit and store speech signals, speech codecs create a minimally redundant representation of the input signal which is then decoded at the receiver with the best possible perceptual quality. In this work we demonstrate that a neural network architecture based on VQ-VAE with a WaveNet decoder …
The People's Speech: A Large-Scale Diverse English Speech Recognition Dataset for Commercial Usagecs.LG
Large speech dataset for commercial use with 9.98% word error rate.
problem Creating a diverse speech recognition dataset for commercial purposes.
method Internet search for licensed audio data with transcriptions, training model on the dataset.
result Model trained on dataset achieves 9.98% word error rate on Librispeech's test-clean test set.
Encoder-decoder based sequence-to-sequence models have demonstrated state-of-the-art results in end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR). Recently, the transformer architecture, which uses self-attention to model temporal context information, has been shown to achieve significantly lower word error rates (WERs) co…
An End-to-End Text-independent Speaker Verification Framework with a Keyword Adversarial Networkeess.AS
This paper presents an end-to-end text-independent speaker verification framework by jointly considering the speaker embedding (SE) network and automatic speech recognition (ASR) network. The SE network learns to output an embedding vector which distinguishes the speaker characteristics of the input utterance, while th…
This paper improves speech recognition by distilling knowledge from acoustic models.
problem Improving speech recognition accuracy using ensemble models.
method Proposes multi-teacher distillation strategies for joint CTC-attention end-to-end ASR systems, integrating error rate metric for optimization.
result Reports state-of-the-art error rates on various datasets and languages.
There is an implicit assumption that traditional hybrid approaches for automatic speech recognition (ASR) cannot directly model graphemes and need to rely on phonetic lexicons to get competitive performance, especially on English which has poor grapheme-phoneme correspondence. In this work, we show for the first time t…
Pretrained masked language models (MLMs) require finetuning for most NLP tasks. Instead, we evaluate MLMs out of the box via their pseudo-log-likelihood scores (PLLs), which are computed by masking tokens one by one. We show that PLLs outperform scores from autoregressive language models like GPT-2 in a variety of task…
Self-supervised model detects phoneme boundaries without annotations.
problem Unsupervised phoneme segmentation without manual annotations.
method Convolutional neural network trained with Noise-Contrastive Estimation.
result Model outperforms baselines on TIMIT and Buckeye corpora.
Large-scale distributed training requires significant communication bandwidth for gradient exchange that limits the scalability of multi-node training, and requires expensive high-bandwidth network infrastructure. The situation gets even worse with distributed training on mobile devices (federated learning), which suff…
End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are increasingly large and complex to achieve the best possible accuracy. In this paper, we build an AutoML system that uses reinforcement learning (RL) to optimize the per-layer compression ratios when applied to a state-of-the-art attention based end-to-end ASR mod…
The dominant automatic lexical stress detection method is to split the utterance into syllable segments using phoneme sequence and their time-aligned boundaries. Then we extract features from syllable to use classification method to classify the lexical stress. However, we can't get very accurate time boundaries of eac…
This work compares and evaluates various sampling methods for neural language models.
problem Lack of systematic comparison and myths about sampling methods.
method Monte Carlo sampling, importance sampling, compensated partial summation, noise contrastive estimation.
result All sampling methods can perform equally well if posterior probabilities are corrected.
This study improves knowledge distillation for RNN-T models with noisy labels.
problem Challenges in distilling knowledge from RNN-T models with variable quality teachers.
method Full-sum distillation and sequence-level knowledge distillation.
result Full-sum distillation outperforms other methods for RNN-T models, especially for bad teachers.
This paper tackles multilingual speech processing by optimizing conflicting objectives hierarchically.
problem Training models for multilingual, multi-task speech processing is hampered by conflicting objectives.
method Investigates three multi-objective MSP formulations and introduces a lightweight layer-selection mechanism.
result A bi-level recipe outperforms standard flat optimization in state-of-the-art MSP models.
A new framework improves ASR alignment accuracy via optimal transport.
problem Peaky behavior and alignment inaccuracies in E2E ASR models.
method Differentiable alignment framework based on 1D optimal transport.
result Significant improvement in ASR alignment performance compared to CTC.
SapAugment learns adaptive augmentation policies for better model training.
problem Fixed data augmentation methods often apply the same augmentation to all samples, ignoring sample difficulty.
method SapAugment adapts augmentation parameters based on training loss, learning a sample-adaptive policy.
result SapAugment achieves up to 21% relative reduction in word error rate on LibriSpeech dataset.
In this paper, we describe the Maximum Uniformity of Distribution (MUD) algorithm with the power-law nonlinearity. In this approach, we hypothesize that neural network training will become more stable if feature distribution is not too much skewed. We propose two different types of MUD approaches: power function-based …
Federated Learning speeds up speech recognition training by 7x and reduces error rate by 6%.
problem Training acoustic models for speech recognition tasks in a federated manner.
method Hierarchical optimization and dynamic gradient aggregation methods.
result Significant improvement in training convergence speed and model performance.
Speech separation refers to extracting each individual speech source in a given mixed signal. Recent advancements in speech separation and ongoing research in this area, have made these approaches as promising techniques for pre-processing of naturalistic audio streams. After incorporating deep learning techniques into…