no code implementations • 28 Mar 2024 • Yash Jain, David Chan, Pranav Dheram, Aparna Khare, Olabanji Shonibare, Venkatesh Ravichandran, Shalini Ghosh
Recent advances in machine learning have demonstrated that multi-modal pre-training can improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance compared to randomly initialized models, even when models are fine-tuned on uni-modal tasks.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2
no code implementations • 4 Nov 2022 • Xin Zhang, Iván Vallés-Pérez, Andreas Stolcke, Chengzhu Yu, Jasha Droppo, Olabanji Shonibare, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Venkatesh Ravichandran
By fine-tuning an ASR model on synthetic stuttered speech we are able to reduce word error by 5. 7% relative on stuttered utterances, with only minor (<0. 2% relative) degradation for fluent utterances.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1
no code implementations • 8 Feb 2022 • Olabanji Shonibare, Xiaosu Tong, Venkatesh Ravichandran
We propose a simple but effective method called 'Detect and Pass' to make modern ASR systems accessible for People Who Stutter in a limited data setting.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1
no code implementations • 17 Apr 2021 • Olabanji Shonibare
Answer selection (AS) is an essential subtask in the field of natural language processing with an objective to identify the most likely answer to a given question from a corpus containing candidate answer sentences.