Search Results for author: Michael L. Seltzer

Found 30 papers, 2 papers with code

End-to-End Speech Recognition Contextualization with Large Language Models

no code implementations19 Sep 2023 Egor Lakomkin, Chunyang Wu, Yassir Fathullah, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer, Christian Fuegen

Overall, we demonstrate that by only adding a handful number of trainable parameters via adapters, we can unlock contextualized speech recognition capability for the pretrained LLM while keeping the same text-only input functionality.

Language Modelling speech-recognition +1

Modality Confidence Aware Training for Robust End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding

no code implementations22 Jul 2023 Suyoun Kim, Akshat Shrivastava, Duc Le, Ju Lin, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer

End-to-end (E2E) spoken language understanding (SLU) systems that generate a semantic parse from speech have become more promising recently.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition +1

Improving Fast-slow Encoder based Transducer with Streaming Deliberation

no code implementations15 Dec 2022 Ke Li, Jay Mahadeokar, Jinxi Guo, Yangyang Shi, Gil Keren, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer, Duc Le

Experiments on Librispeech and in-house data show relative WER reductions (WERRs) from 3% to 5% with a slight increase in model size and negligible extra token emission latency compared with fast-slow encoder based transducer.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

Massively Multilingual ASR on 70 Languages: Tokenization, Architecture, and Generalization Capabilities

no code implementations10 Nov 2022 Andros Tjandra, Nayan Singhal, David Zhang, Ozlem Kalinli, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Duc Le, Michael L. Seltzer

Later, we use our optimal tokenization strategy to train multiple embedding and output model to further improve our result.

Factorized Blank Thresholding for Improved Runtime Efficiency of Neural Transducers

no code implementations2 Nov 2022 Duc Le, Frank Seide, Yuhao Wang, Yang Li, Kjell Schubert, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer

We show how factoring the RNN-T's output distribution can significantly reduce the computation cost and power consumption for on-device ASR inference with no loss in accuracy.

Deliberation Model for On-Device Spoken Language Understanding

no code implementations4 Apr 2022 Duc Le, Akshat Shrivastava, Paden Tomasello, Suyoun Kim, Aleksandr Livshits, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer

We propose a novel deliberation-based approach to end-to-end (E2E) spoken language understanding (SLU), where a streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) model produces the first-pass hypothesis and a second-pass natural language understanding (NLU) component generates the semantic parse by conditioning on both ASR's text and audio embeddings.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3

Neural-FST Class Language Model for End-to-End Speech Recognition

no code implementations28 Jan 2022 Antoine Bruguier, Duc Le, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Dangna Li, Zhe Liu, Bo wang, Eun Chang, Fuchun Peng, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer

We propose Neural-FST Class Language Model (NFCLM) for end-to-end speech recognition, a novel method that combines neural network language models (NNLMs) and finite state transducers (FSTs) in a mathematically consistent framework.

Language Modelling speech-recognition +1

Collaborative Training of Acoustic Encoders for Speech Recognition

no code implementations16 Jun 2021 Varun Nagaraja, Yangyang Shi, Ganesh Venkatesh, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer, Vikas Chandra

On-device speech recognition requires training models of different sizes for deploying on devices with various computational budgets.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

Dissecting User-Perceived Latency of On-Device E2E Speech Recognition

no code implementations6 Apr 2021 Yuan Shangguan, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Hang Su, Jay Mahadeokar, Yangyang Shi, Jiatong Zhou, Chunyang Wu, Duc Le, Ozlem Kalinli, Christian Fuegen, Michael L. Seltzer

As speech-enabled devices such as smartphones and smart speakers become increasingly ubiquitous, there is growing interest in building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems that can run directly on-device; end-to-end (E2E) speech recognition models such as recurrent neural network transducers and their variants have recently emerged as prime candidates for this task.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Dynamic Encoder Transducer: A Flexible Solution For Trading Off Accuracy For Latency

no code implementations5 Apr 2021 Yangyang Shi, Varun Nagaraja, Chunyang Wu, Jay Mahadeokar, Duc Le, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Alex Xiao, Ching-Feng Yeh, Julian Chan, Christian Fuegen, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer

DET gets similar accuracy as a baseline model with better latency on a large in-house data set by assigning a lightweight encoder for the beginning part of one utterance and a full-size encoder for the rest.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

Memory-efficient Speech Recognition on Smart Devices

no code implementations23 Feb 2021 Ganesh Venkatesh, Alagappan Valliappan, Jay Mahadeokar, Yuan Shangguan, Christian Fuegen, Michael L. Seltzer, Vikas Chandra

Recurrent transducer models have emerged as a promising solution for speech recognition on the current and next generation smart devices.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

Deep Shallow Fusion for RNN-T Personalization

no code implementations16 Nov 2020 Duc Le, Gil Keren, Julian Chan, Jay Mahadeokar, Christian Fuegen, Michael L. Seltzer

End-to-end models in general, and Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T) in particular, have gained significant traction in the automatic speech recognition community in the last few years due to their simplicity, compactness, and excellent performance on generic transcription tasks.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Alignment Restricted Streaming Recurrent Neural Network Transducer

no code implementations5 Nov 2020 Jay Mahadeokar, Yuan Shangguan, Duc Le, Gil Keren, Hang Su, Thong Le, Ching-Feng Yeh, Christian Fuegen, Michael L. Seltzer

There is a growing interest in the speech community in developing Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T) models for automatic speech recognition (ASR) applications.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

Streaming Attention-Based Models with Augmented Memory for End-to-End Speech Recognition

no code implementations3 Nov 2020 Ching-Feng Yeh, Yongqiang Wang, Yangyang Shi, Chunyang Wu, Frank Zhang, Julian Chan, Michael L. Seltzer

Attention-based models have been gaining popularity recently for their strong performance demonstrated in fields such as machine translation and automatic speech recognition.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3

Improved Neural Language Model Fusion for Streaming Recurrent Neural Network Transducer

no code implementations26 Oct 2020 Suyoun Kim, Yuan Shangguan, Jay Mahadeokar, Antoine Bruguier, Christian Fuegen, Michael L. Seltzer, Duc Le

Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T), like most end-to-end speech recognition model architectures, has an implicit neural network language model (NNLM) and cannot easily leverage unpaired text data during training.

Language Modelling speech-recognition +1

Weak-Attention Suppression For Transformer Based Speech Recognition

no code implementations18 May 2020 Yangyang Shi, Yongqiang Wang, Chunyang Wu, Christian Fuegen, Frank Zhang, Duc Le, Ching-Feng Yeh, Michael L. Seltzer

Transformers, originally proposed for natural language processing (NLP) tasks, have recently achieved great success in automatic speech recognition (ASR).

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

RNN-T For Latency Controlled ASR With Improved Beam Search

no code implementations5 Nov 2019 Mahaveer Jain, Kjell Schubert, Jay Mahadeokar, Ching-Feng Yeh, Kaustubh Kalgaonkar, Anuroop Sriram, Christian Fuegen, Michael L. Seltzer

Neural transducer-based systems such as RNN Transducers (RNN-T) for automatic speech recognition (ASR) blend the individual components of a traditional hybrid ASR systems (acoustic model, language model, punctuation model, inverse text normalization) into one single model.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3

G2G: TTS-Driven Pronunciation Learning for Graphemic Hybrid ASR

no code implementations22 Oct 2019 Duc Le, Thilo Koehler, Christian Fuegen, Michael L. Seltzer

Grapheme-based acoustic modeling has recently been shown to outperform phoneme-based approaches in both hybrid and end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR), even on non-phonemic languages like English.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

From Senones to Chenones: Tied Context-Dependent Graphemes for Hybrid Speech Recognition

no code implementations2 Oct 2019 Duc Le, Xiaohui Zhang, Weiyi Zheng, Christian Fügen, Geoffrey Zweig, Michael L. Seltzer

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.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

End-to-end contextual speech recognition using class language models and a token passing decoder

no code implementations5 Dec 2018 Zhehuai Chen, Mahaveer Jain, Yongqiang Wang, Michael L. Seltzer, Christian Fuegen

In this work, we focus on contextual speech recognition, which is particularly challenging for E2E models because it introduces significant mismatch between training and test data.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Towards Language-Universal End-to-End Speech Recognition

no code implementations6 Nov 2017 Suyoun Kim, Michael L. Seltzer

Building speech recognizers in multiple languages typically involves replicating a monolingual training recipe for each language, or utilizing a multi-task learning approach where models for different languages have separate output labels but share some internal parameters.

Multi-Task Learning speech-recognition +1

Improved training for online end-to-end speech recognition systems

1 code implementation6 Nov 2017 Suyoun Kim, Michael L. Seltzer, Jinyu Li, Rui Zhao

Achieving high accuracy with end-to-end speech recognizers requires careful parameter initialization prior to training.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

Large-Scale Domain Adaptation via Teacher-Student Learning

no code implementations17 Aug 2017 Jinyu Li, Michael L. Seltzer, Xi Wang, Rui Zhao, Yifan Gong

High accuracy speech recognition requires a large amount of transcribed data for supervised training.

Domain Adaptation speech-recognition +1

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