Avengers, Ensemble! Benefits of ensembling in grapheme-to-phoneme prediction

no code implementations • ACL (SIGMORPHON) 2021 • Vasundhara Gautam, Wang Yau Li, Zafarullah Mahmood, Frederic Mailhot, Shreekantha Nadig, Riqiang Wang, Nathan Zhang

We describe three baseline beating systems for the high-resource English-only sub-task of the SIGMORPHON 2021 Shared Task 1: a small ensemble that Dialpad’s speech recognition team uses internally, a well-known off-the-shelf model, and a larger ensemble model comprising these and others.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

N-gram Boosting: Improving Contextual Biasing with Normalized N-gram Targets

no code implementations • 4 Aug 2023 • Wang Yau Li, Shreekantha Nadig, Karol Chang, Zafarullah Mahmood, Riqiang Wang, Simon Vandieken, Jonas Robertson, Fred Mailhot

Accurate transcription of proper names and technical terms is particularly important in speech-to-text applications for business conversations.