Exploring Retraining-Free Speech Recognition for Intra-sentential Code-Switching

no code implementations • 27 Aug 2021 • Zhen Huang, Xiaodan Zhuang, Daben Liu, Xiaoqiang Xiao, Yuchen Zhang, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi

To achieve such an ambitious goal, new mechanisms for foreign pronunciation generation and language model (LM) enrichment have been devised.

Speech Recognition

Frame-level SpecAugment for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks in Hybrid ASR Systems

no code implementations • 7 Dec 2020 • Xinwei Li, Yuanyuan Zhang, Xiaodan Zhuang, Daben Liu

We demonstrate that f-SpecAugment is more effective than the utterance level SpecAugment for deep CNN based hybrid models.

Data Augmentation

SNDCNN: Self-normalizing deep CNNs with scaled exponential linear units for speech recognition

no code implementations • 4 Oct 2019 • Zhen Huang, Tim Ng, Leo Liu, Henry Mason, Xiaodan Zhuang, Daben Liu

The most popular way to train very deep CNNs is to use shortcut connections (SC) together with batch normalization (BN).

Inference Optimization Speech Recognition