End-to-End Multimodal Speech Recognition

25 Apr 2018  ·  Shruti Palaskar, Ramon Sanabria, Florian Metze ·

Transcription or sub-titling of open-domain videos is still a challenging domain for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) due to the data's challenging acoustics, variable signal processing and the essentially unrestricted domain of the data. In previous work, we have shown that the visual channel -- specifically object and scene features -- can help to adapt the acoustic model (AM) and language model (LM) of a recognizer, and we are now expanding this work to end-to-end approaches. In the case of a Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC)-based approach, we retain the separation of AM and LM, while for a sequence-to-sequence (S2S) approach, both information sources are adapted together, in a single model. This paper also analyzes the behavior of CTC and S2S models on noisy video data (How-To corpus), and compares it to results on the clean Wall Street Journal (WSJ) corpus, providing insight into the robustness of both approaches.

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