Search Results for author: Erfan Loweimi

Found 9 papers, 3 papers with code

Phonetic Error Analysis of Raw Waveform Acoustic Models with Parametric and Non-Parametric CNNs

no code implementations2 Jun 2024 Erfan Loweimi, Andrea Carmantini, Peter Bell, Steve Renals, Zoran Cvetkovic

Our raw waveform acoustic models consists of parametric (Sinc2Net) or non-parametric CNNs and Bidirectional LSTMs, achieving down to 13. 7%/15. 2% PERs on TIMIT Dev/Test sets, outperforming reported PERs for raw waveform models in the literature.

Transfer Learning

Zero-shot Audio Topic Reranking using Large Language Models

no code implementations14 Sep 2023 Mengjie Qian, Rao Ma, Adian Liusie, Erfan Loweimi, Kate M. Knill, Mark J. F. Gales

To gain a deeper understanding and further insights into the performance differences and limitations of these text sources, we employ a fact-checking approach to analyse the information consistency among them.

Fact Checking Information Retrieval +1

RCT: Random Consistency Training for Semi-supervised Sound Event Detection

2 code implementations21 Oct 2021 Nian Shao, Erfan Loweimi, Xiaofei Li

Sound event detection (SED), as a core module of acoustic environmental analysis, suffers from the problem of data deficiency.

Data Augmentation Event Detection +1

Train your classifier first: Cascade Neural Networks Training from upper layers to lower layers

no code implementations9 Feb 2021 Shucong Zhang, Cong-Thanh Do, Rama Doddipatla, Erfan Loweimi, Peter Bell, Steve Renals

Although the lower layers of a deep neural network learn features which are transferable across datasets, these layers are not transferable within the same dataset.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

On the Usefulness of Self-Attention for Automatic Speech Recognition with Transformers

no code implementations8 Nov 2020 Shucong Zhang, Erfan Loweimi, Peter Bell, Steve Renals

Self-attention models such as Transformers, which can capture temporal relationships without being limited by the distance between events, have given competitive speech recognition results.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

When Can Self-Attention Be Replaced by Feed Forward Layers?

no code implementations28 May 2020 Shucong Zhang, Erfan Loweimi, Peter Bell, Steve Renals

Recently, self-attention models such as Transformers have given competitive results compared to recurrent neural network systems in speech recognition.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

Acoustic Model Adaptation from Raw Waveforms with SincNet

1 code implementation30 Sep 2019 Joachim Fainberg, Ondřej Klejch, Erfan Loweimi, Peter Bell, Steve Renals

Raw waveform acoustic modelling has recently gained interest due to neural networks' ability to learn feature extraction, and the potential for finding better representations for a given scenario than hand-crafted features.

Acoustic Modelling

Top-down training for neural networks

no code implementations25 Sep 2019 Shucong Zhang, Cong-Thanh Do, Rama Doddipatla, Erfan Loweimi, Peter Bell, Steve Renals

Interpreting the top layers as a classifier and the lower layers a feature extractor, one can hypothesize that unwanted network convergence may occur when the classifier has overfit with respect to the feature extractor.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

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