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Personalization of CTC-based End-to-End Speech Recognition Using Pronunciation-Driven Subword Tokenization

Recent advances in deep learning and automatic speech recognition have boosted the accuracy of end-to-end speech recognition to a new level. However, recognition of personal content such as contact names remains a challenge. In this work, we present a personalization solution for an end-to-end system based on connectionist temporal classification. Our solution uses class-based language model, in which a general language model provides modeling of the context for named entity classes, and personal named entities are compiled in a separate finite state transducer. We further introduce a…

Space-Efficient Representation of Entity-centric Query Language Models

Virtual assistants make use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) to help users answer entity-centric queries. However, spoken entity recognition is a difficult problem, due to the large number of frequently-changing named entities. In addition, resources available for recognition are constrained when ASR is performed on-device. In this work, we investigate…

September 3, 2022

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Pre-trained Model Representations and their Robustness against Noise for Speech Emotion Analysis

Pre-trained model representations have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in speech recognition, natural language processing, and other applications. Speech models, such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) and Hidden units BERT (HuBERT), have enabled generating lexical and acoustic representations to benefit speech recognition applications. We investigated the use of pre-trained model…

March 15, 2023

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Google at Interspeech 2022

Posted by Cat Armato, Program Manager, Google This week, the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2022) is being held in Incheon, South Korea, representing one of the world’s most extensive conferences on research and technology of spoken language understanding and processing. Over 2,000 experts in…

September 18, 2022

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