no code implementations • 3 Nov 2022 • Pingchuan Ma, Niko Moritz, Stavros Petridis, Christian Fuegen, Maja Pantic
The audio and the visual encoder neural networks are both based on the conformer architecture, which is made streamable using chunk-wise self-attention (CSA) and causal convolution.
Audio-Visual Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition
+5
no code implementations • 19 Apr 2022 • Niko Moritz, Frank Seide, Duc Le, Jay Mahadeokar, Christian Fuegen
The two most popular loss functions for streaming end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) are RNN-Transducer (RNN-T) and connectionist temporal classification (CTC).
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+1
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2021 • Alex Xiao, Weiyi Zheng, Gil Keren, Duc Le, Frank Zhang, Christian Fuegen, Ozlem Kalinli, Yatharth Saraf, Abdelrahman Mohamed
With 4. 5 million hours of English speech from 10 different sources across 120 countries and models of up to 10 billion parameters, we explore the frontiers of scale for automatic speech recognition.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+2
3 code implementations • CVPR 2022 • Kristen Grauman, Andrew Westbury, Eugene Byrne, Zachary Chavis, Antonino Furnari, Rohit Girdhar, Jackson Hamburger, Hao Jiang, Miao Liu, Xingyu Liu, Miguel Martin, Tushar Nagarajan, Ilija Radosavovic, Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan, Fiona Ryan, Jayant Sharma, Michael Wray, Mengmeng Xu, Eric Zhongcong Xu, Chen Zhao, Siddhant Bansal, Dhruv Batra, Vincent Cartillier, Sean Crane, Tien Do, Morrie Doulaty, Akshay Erapalli, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Adriano Fragomeni, Qichen Fu, Abrham Gebreselasie, Cristina Gonzalez, James Hillis, Xuhua Huang, Yifei HUANG, Wenqi Jia, Weslie Khoo, Jachym Kolar, Satwik Kottur, Anurag Kumar, Federico Landini, Chao Li, Yanghao Li, Zhenqiang Li, Karttikeya Mangalam, Raghava Modhugu, Jonathan Munro, Tullie Murrell, Takumi Nishiyasu, Will Price, Paola Ruiz Puentes, Merey Ramazanova, Leda Sari, Kiran Somasundaram, Audrey Southerland, Yusuke Sugano, Ruijie Tao, Minh Vo, Yuchen Wang, Xindi Wu, Takuma Yagi, Ziwei Zhao, Yunyi Zhu, Pablo Arbelaez, David Crandall, Dima Damen, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Christian Fuegen, Bernard Ghanem, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, C. V. Jawahar, Hanbyul Joo, Kris Kitani, Haizhou Li, Richard Newcombe, Aude Oliva, Hyun Soo Park, James M. Rehg, Yoichi Sato, Jianbo Shi, Mike Zheng Shou, Antonio Torralba, Lorenzo Torresani, Mingfei Yan, Jitendra Malik
We introduce Ego4D, a massive-scale egocentric video dataset and benchmark suite.
no code implementations • 11 Oct 2021 • Suyoun Kim, Duc Le, Weiyi Zheng, Tarun Singh, Abhinav Arora, Xiaoyu Zhai, Christian Fuegen, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer
Measuring automatic speech recognition (ASR) system quality is critical for creating user-satisfying voice-driven applications.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+3
no code implementations • 21 Jun 2021 • Anurag Kumar, Yun Wang, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, Christian Fuegen
We also provide insights into the attributes of sound event representations that enable such efficient information transfer.
no code implementations • 6 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
no code implementations • 6 Apr 2021 • Jay Mahadeokar, Yangyang Shi, Yuan Shangguan, Chunyang Wu, Alex Xiao, Hang Su, Duc Le, Ozlem Kalinli, Christian Fuegen, Michael L. Seltzer
In order to achieve flexible and better accuracy and latency trade-offs, the following techniques are used.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+1
no code implementations • 5 Apr 2021 • Suyoun Kim, Abhinav Arora, Duc Le, Ching-Feng Yeh, Christian Fuegen, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer
We define SemDist as the distance between a reference and hypothesis pair in a sentence-level embedding space.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+13
no code implementations • 5 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.
no code implementations • 5 Apr 2021 • Duc Le, Mahaveer Jain, Gil Keren, Suyoun Kim, Yangyang Shi, Jay Mahadeokar, Julian Chan, Yuan Shangguan, Christian Fuegen, Ozlem Kalinli, Yatharth Saraf, Michael L. Seltzer
How to leverage dynamic contextual information in end-to-end speech recognition has remained an active research area.
no code implementations • 9 Mar 2021 • Alex Xiao, Christian Fuegen, Abdelrahman Mohamed
Pseudo-labeling is the most adopted method for pre-training automatic speech recognition (ASR) models.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+2
no code implementations • 23 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.
no code implementations • 16 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
no code implementations • 5 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
no code implementations • 26 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.
no code implementations • 18 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
no code implementations • 16 May 2020 • Kritika Singh, Vimal Manohar, Alex Xiao, Sergey Edunov, Ross Girshick, Vitaliy Liptchinsky, Christian Fuegen, Yatharth Saraf, Geoffrey Zweig, Abdel-rahman Mohamed
Many semi- and weakly-supervised approaches have been investigated for overcoming the labeling cost of building high quality speech recognition systems.
1 code implementation • 17 Dec 2019 • Jacob Kahn, Morgane Rivière, Weiyi Zheng, Evgeny Kharitonov, Qiantong Xu, Pierre-Emmanuel Mazaré, Julien Karadayi, Vitaliy Liptchinsky, Ronan Collobert, Christian Fuegen, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Gabriel Synnaeve, Armand Joulin, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Emmanuel Dupoux
Additionally, we provide baseline systems and evaluation metrics working under three settings: (1) the zero resource/unsupervised setting (ABX), (2) the semi-supervised setting (PER, CER) and (3) the distant supervision setting (WER).
Ranked #1 on
Speech Recognition
on Libri-Light test-other
(ABX-across metric)
no code implementations • 5 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)
+2
1 code implementation • 28 Oct 2019 • Ching-Feng Yeh, Jay Mahadeokar, Kaustubh Kalgaonkar, Yongqiang Wang, Duc Le, Mahaveer Jain, Kjell Schubert, Christian Fuegen, Michael L. Seltzer
We explore options to use Transformer networks in neural transducer for end-to-end speech recognition.
no code implementations • 22 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
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2019 • Yongqiang Wang, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Duc Le, Chunxi Liu, Alex Xiao, Jay Mahadeokar, Hongzhao Huang, Andros Tjandra, Xiaohui Zhang, Frank Zhang, Christian Fuegen, Geoffrey Zweig, Michael L. Seltzer
We propose and evaluate transformer-based acoustic models (AMs) for hybrid speech recognition.
Ranked #20 on
Speech Recognition
on LibriSpeech test-other
no code implementations • 5 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
1 code implementation • 23 Feb 2018 • Dmitriy Serdyuk, Yongqiang Wang, Christian Fuegen, Anuj Kumar, Baiyang Liu, Yoshua Bengio
Spoken language understanding system is traditionally designed as a pipeline of a number of components.
Natural Language Understanding
Spoken Language Understanding