Search Results for author: Anjuli Kannan

Found 19 papers, 5 papers with code

Language-agnostic Multilingual Modeling

no code implementations20 Apr 2020 Arindrima Datta, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Jesse Emond, Anjuli Kannan, Brian Roark

Multilingual Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) systems allow for the joint training of data-rich and data-scarce languages in a single model.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition +1

A Streaming On-Device End-to-End Model Surpassing Server-Side Conventional Model Quality and Latency

no code implementations28 Mar 2020 Tara N. Sainath, Yanzhang He, Bo Li, Arun Narayanan, Ruoming Pang, Antoine Bruguier, Shuo-Yiin Chang, Wei Li, Raziel Alvarez, Zhifeng Chen, Chung-Cheng Chiu, David Garcia, Alex Gruenstein, Ke Hu, Minho Jin, Anjuli Kannan, Qiao Liang, Ian McGraw, Cal Peyser, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Golan Pundak, David Rybach, Yuan Shangguan, Yash Sheth, Trevor Strohman, Mirko Visontai, Yonghui Wu, Yu Zhang, Ding Zhao

Thus far, end-to-end (E2E) models have not been shown to outperform state-of-the-art conventional models with respect to both quality, i. e., word error rate (WER), and latency, i. e., the time the hypothesis is finalized after the user stops speaking.

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Extracting Symptoms and their Status from Clinical Conversations

no code implementations ACL 2019 Nan Du, Kai Chen, Anjuli Kannan, Linh Tran, Yu-Hui Chen, Izhak Shafran

This paper describes novel models tailored for a new application, that of extracting the symptoms mentioned in clinical conversations along with their status.

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Lingvo: a Modular and Scalable Framework for Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling

2 code implementations21 Feb 2019 Jonathan Shen, Patrick Nguyen, Yonghui Wu, Zhifeng Chen, Mia X. Chen, Ye Jia, Anjuli Kannan, Tara Sainath, Yuan Cao, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Yanzhang He, Jan Chorowski, Smit Hinsu, Stella Laurenzo, James Qin, Orhan Firat, Wolfgang Macherey, Suyog Gupta, Ankur Bapna, Shuyuan Zhang, Ruoming Pang, Ron J. Weiss, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Qiao Liang, Benoit Jacob, Bowen Liang, HyoukJoong Lee, Ciprian Chelba, Sébastien Jean, Bo Li, Melvin Johnson, Rohan Anil, Rajat Tibrewal, Xiaobing Liu, Akiko Eriguchi, Navdeep Jaitly, Naveen Ari, Colin Cherry, Parisa Haghani, Otavio Good, Youlong Cheng, Raziel Alvarez, Isaac Caswell, Wei-Ning Hsu, Zongheng Yang, Kuan-Chieh Wang, Ekaterina Gonina, Katrin Tomanek, Ben Vanik, Zelin Wu, Llion Jones, Mike Schuster, Yanping Huang, Dehao Chen, Kazuki Irie, George Foster, John Richardson, Klaus Macherey, Antoine Bruguier, Heiga Zen, Colin Raffel, Shankar Kumar, Kanishka Rao, David Rybach, Matthew Murray, Vijayaditya Peddinti, Maxim Krikun, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani, Thomas B. Jablin, Rob Suderman, Ian Williams, Benjamin Lee, Deepti Bhatia, Justin Carlson, Semih Yavuz, Yu Zhang, Ian McGraw, Max Galkin, Qi Ge, Golan Pundak, Chad Whipkey, Todd Wang, Uri Alon, Dmitry Lepikhin, Ye Tian, Sara Sabour, William Chan, Shubham Toshniwal, Baohua Liao, Michael Nirschl, Pat Rondon

Lingvo is a Tensorflow framework offering a complete solution for collaborative deep learning research, with a particular focus towards sequence-to-sequence models.

Sequence-To-Sequence Speech Recognition

On the Choice of Modeling Unit for Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition

3 code implementations5 Feb 2019 Kazuki Irie, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Anjuli Kannan, Antoine Bruguier, David Rybach, Patrick Nguyen

We also investigate model complementarity: we find that we can improve WERs by up to 9% relative by rescoring N-best lists generated from a strong word-piece based baseline with either the phoneme or the grapheme model.

Language Modelling Sequence-To-Sequence Speech Recognition +1

Deep context: end-to-end contextual speech recognition

no code implementations7 Aug 2018 Golan Pundak, Tara N. Sainath, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Anjuli Kannan, Ding Zhao

Our approach, which we re- fer to as Contextual Listen, Attend and Spell (CLAS) jointly- optimizes the ASR components along with embeddings of the context n-grams.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

No Need for a Lexicon? Evaluating the Value of the Pronunciation Lexica in End-to-End Models

no code implementations5 Dec 2017 Tara N. Sainath, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Shankar Kumar, Seungji Lee, Anjuli Kannan, David Rybach, Vlad Schogol, Patrick Nguyen, Bo Li, Yonghui Wu, Zhifeng Chen, Chung-Cheng Chiu

However, there has been little previous work comparing phoneme-based versus grapheme-based sub-word units in the end-to-end modeling framework, to determine whether the gains from such approaches are primarily due to the new probabilistic model, or from the joint learning of the various components with grapheme-based units.

Language Modelling

Improving the Performance of Online Neural Transducer Models

no code implementations5 Dec 2017 Tara N. Sainath, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Anjuli Kannan, Yonghui Wu, Patrick Nguyen, Zhifeng Chen

Neural transducer is a streaming sequence-to-sequence model, but has shown a significant degradation in performance compared to non-streaming models such as Listen, Attend and Spell (LAS).

Minimum Word Error Rate Training for Attention-based Sequence-to-Sequence Models

2 code implementations5 Dec 2017 Rohit Prabhavalkar, Tara N. Sainath, Yonghui Wu, Patrick Nguyen, Zhifeng Chen, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Anjuli Kannan

Sequence-to-sequence models, such as attention-based models in automatic speech recognition (ASR), are typically trained to optimize the cross-entropy criterion which corresponds to improving the log-likelihood of the data.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

State-of-the-art Speech Recognition With Sequence-to-Sequence Models

4 code implementations5 Dec 2017 Chung-Cheng Chiu, Tara N. Sainath, Yonghui Wu, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Patrick Nguyen, Zhifeng Chen, Anjuli Kannan, Ron J. Weiss, Kanishka Rao, Ekaterina Gonina, Navdeep Jaitly, Bo Li, Jan Chorowski, Michiel Bacchiani

Attention-based encoder-decoder architectures such as Listen, Attend, and Spell (LAS), subsume the acoustic, pronunciation and language model components of a traditional automatic speech recognition (ASR) system into a single neural network.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

Adversarial Evaluation of Dialogue Models

no code implementations27 Jan 2017 Anjuli Kannan, Oriol Vinyals

The recent application of RNN encoder-decoder models has resulted in substantial progress in fully data-driven dialogue systems, but evaluation remains a challenge.

Smart Reply: Automated Response Suggestion for Email

no code implementations15 Jun 2016 Anjuli Kannan, Karol Kurach, Sujith Ravi, Tobias Kaufmann, Andrew Tomkins, Balint Miklos, Greg Corrado, Laszlo Lukacs, Marina Ganea, Peter Young, Vivek Ramavajjala

In this paper we propose and investigate a novel end-to-end method for automatically generating short email responses, called Smart Reply.

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