Bootstrap an end-to-end ASR system by multilingual training, transfer learning, text-to-text mapping and synthetic audio

no code implementations • 25 Nov 2020 • Manuel Giollo, Deniz Gunceler, YuLan Liu, Daniel Willett

Bootstrapping speech recognition on limited data resources has been an area of active research for long.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

Using Synthetic Audio to Improve The Recognition of Out-Of-Vocabulary Words in End-To-End ASR Systems

no code implementations • 23 Nov 2020 • Xianrui Zheng, YuLan Liu, Deniz Gunceler, Daniel Willett

Different regularisation techniques are explored and the best performance is achieved by fine-tuning the RNN-T on both original training data and extra synthetic data with elastic weight consolidation (EWC) applied on the encoder.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1