Search Results for author: Christian Fuegen

Found 31 papers, 4 papers with code

Effective internal language model training and fusion for factorized transducer model

no code implementations2 Apr 2024 Jinxi Guo, Niko Moritz, Yingyi Ma, Frank Seide, Chunyang Wu, Jay Mahadeokar, Ozlem Kalinli, Christian Fuegen, Mike Seltzer

However, even with the adoption of factorized transducer models, limited improvement has been observed compared to shallow fusion.

Language Modelling

AGADIR: Towards Array-Geometry Agnostic Directional Speech Recognition

no code implementations18 Jan 2024 Ju Lin, Niko Moritz, Yiteng Huang, Ruiming Xie, Ming Sun, Christian Fuegen, Frank Seide

Wearable devices like smart glasses are approaching the compute capability to seamlessly generate real-time closed captions for live conversations.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

AudioChatLlama: Towards General-Purpose Speech Abilities for LLMs

no code implementations12 Nov 2023 Yassir Fathullah, Chunyang Wu, Egor Lakomkin, Ke Li, Junteng Jia, Yuan Shangguan, Jay Mahadeokar, Ozlem Kalinli, Christian Fuegen, Mike Seltzer

In this work, we extend the instruction-tuned Llama-2 model with end-to-end general-purpose speech processing and reasoning abilities while maintaining the wide range of original LLM capabilities, without using any carefully curated paired data.

Question Answering

End-to-End Speech Recognition Contextualization with Large Language Models

no code implementations19 Sep 2023 Egor Lakomkin, Chunyang Wu, Yassir Fathullah, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer, Christian Fuegen

Overall, we demonstrate that by only adding a handful number of trainable parameters via adapters, we can unlock contextualized speech recognition capability for the pretrained LLM while keeping the same text-only input functionality.

Language Modelling speech-recognition +1

Prompting Large Language Models with Speech Recognition Abilities

no code implementations21 Jul 2023 Yassir Fathullah, Chunyang Wu, Egor Lakomkin, Junteng Jia, Yuan Shangguan, Ke Li, Jinxi Guo, Wenhan Xiong, Jay Mahadeokar, Ozlem Kalinli, Christian Fuegen, Mike Seltzer

Furthermore, we perform ablation studies to investigate whether the LLM can be completely frozen during training to maintain its original capabilities, scaling up the audio encoder, and increasing the audio encoder striding to generate fewer embeddings.

Abstractive Text Summarization Automatic Speech Recognition +3

SynthVSR: Scaling Up Visual Speech Recognition With Synthetic Supervision

no code implementations CVPR 2023 Xubo Liu, Egor Lakomkin, Konstantinos Vougioukas, Pingchuan Ma, Honglie Chen, Ruiming Xie, Morrie Doulaty, Niko Moritz, Jáchym Kolář, Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic, Christian Fuegen

Furthermore, when combined with large-scale pseudo-labeled audio-visual data SynthVSR yields a new state-of-the-art VSR WER of 16. 9% using publicly available data only, surpassing the recent state-of-the-art approaches trained with 29 times more non-public machine-transcribed video data (90, 000 hours).

Lip Reading speech-recognition +1

Streaming Audio-Visual Speech Recognition with Alignment Regularization

no code implementations3 Nov 2022 Pingchuan Ma, Niko Moritz, Stavros Petridis, Christian Fuegen, Maja Pantic

In this work, we propose a streaming AV-ASR system based on a hybrid connectionist temporal classification (CTC)/attention neural network architecture.

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition +5

An Investigation of Monotonic Transducers for Large-Scale Automatic Speech Recognition

no code implementations19 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) +2

Scaling ASR Improves Zero and Few Shot Learning

no code implementations10 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

Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Video

6 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.

De-identification Ethics

Dissecting User-Perceived Latency of On-Device E2E Speech Recognition

no code implementations6 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

Dynamic Encoder Transducer: A Flexible Solution For Trading Off Accuracy For Latency

no code implementations5 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.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

Memory-efficient Speech Recognition on Smart Devices

no code implementations23 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.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

Deep Shallow Fusion for RNN-T Personalization

no code implementations16 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

Alignment Restricted Streaming Recurrent Neural Network Transducer

no code implementations5 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

Improved Neural Language Model Fusion for Streaming Recurrent Neural Network Transducer

no code implementations26 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.

Language Modelling speech-recognition +1

Weak-Attention Suppression For Transformer Based Speech Recognition

no code implementations18 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

Libri-Light: A Benchmark for ASR with Limited or No Supervision

2 code implementations17 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-within metric)

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

RNN-T For Latency Controlled ASR With Improved Beam Search

no code implementations5 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) +3

G2G: TTS-Driven Pronunciation Learning for Graphemic Hybrid ASR

no code implementations22 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

End-to-end contextual speech recognition using class language models and a token passing decoder

no code implementations5 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

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