Streaming Punctuation: A Novel Punctuation Technique Leveraging Bidirectional Context for Continuous Speech Recognition

no code implementations • 10 Jan 2023 • Piyush Behre, Sharman Tan, Padma Varadharajan, Shuangyu Chang

While speech recognition Word Error Rate (WER) has reached human parity for English, continuous speech recognition scenarios such as voice typing and meeting transcriptions still suffer from segmentation and punctuation problems, resulting from irregular pausing patterns or slow speakers.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3

TRScore: A Novel GPT-based Readability Scorer for ASR Segmentation and Punctuation model evaluation and selection

no code implementations • 27 Oct 2022 • Piyush Behre, Sharman Tan, Amy Shah, Harini Kesavamoorthy, Shuangyu Chang, Fei Zuo, Chris Basoglu, Sayan Pathak

Punctuation and Segmentation are key to readability in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), often evaluated using F1 scores that require high-quality human transcripts and do not reflect readability well.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3

Four-in-One: A Joint Approach to Inverse Text Normalization, Punctuation, Capitalization, and Disfluency for Automatic Speech Recognition

no code implementations • 26 Oct 2022 • Sharman Tan, Piyush Behre, Nick Kibre, Issac Alphonso, Shuangyu Chang

Features such as punctuation, capitalization, and formatting of entities are important for readability, understanding, and natural language processing tasks.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Smart Speech Segmentation using Acousto-Linguistic Features with look-ahead

no code implementations • 26 Oct 2022 • Piyush Behre, Naveen Parihar, Sharman Tan, Amy Shah, Eva Sharma, Geoffrey Liu, Shuangyu Chang, Hosam Khalil, Chris Basoglu, Sayan Pathak

For the downstream task of machine translation, it improves the translation BLEU score by an average of 1. 05 points.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +5

Streaming Punctuation for Long-form Dictation with Transformers

no code implementations • 11 Oct 2022 • Piyush Behre, Sharman Tan, Padma Varadharajan, Shuangyu Chang

While speech recognition Word Error Rate (WER) has reached human parity for English, long-form dictation scenarios still suffer from segmentation and punctuation problems resulting from irregular pausing patterns or slow speakers.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3