no code implementations • 22 Sep 2023 • Weiran Wang, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Dongseong Hwang, Qiujia Li, Khe Chai Sim, Bo Li, James Qin, Xingyu Cai, Adam Stooke, Zhong Meng, CJ Zheng, Yanzhang He, Tara Sainath, Pedro Moreno Mengibar
In this work, we investigate two popular end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, namely Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) and RNN-Transducer (RNN-T), for offline recognition of voice search queries, with up to 2B model parameters.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+1
no code implementations • 22 Jun 2023 • Paul K. Rubenstein, Chulayuth Asawaroengchai, Duc Dung Nguyen, Ankur Bapna, Zalán Borsos, Félix de Chaumont Quitry, Peter Chen, Dalia El Badawy, Wei Han, Eugene Kharitonov, Hannah Muckenhirn, Dirk Padfield, James Qin, Danny Rozenberg, Tara Sainath, Johan Schalkwyk, Matt Sharifi, Michelle Tadmor, Ramanovich, Marco Tagliasacchi, Alexandru Tudor, Mihajlo Velimirović, Damien Vincent, Jiahui Yu, Yongqiang Wang, Vicky Zayats, Neil Zeghidour, Yu Zhang, Zhishuai Zhang, Lukas Zilka, Christian Frank
AudioPaLM inherits the capability to preserve paralinguistic information such as speaker identity and intonation from AudioLM and the linguistic knowledge present only in text large language models such as PaLM-2.
no code implementations • 13 Jun 2023 • Nanxin Chen, Izhak Shafran, Yu Zhang, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Hagen Soltau, James Qin, Yonghui Wu
However, finetuning all parameters from the self-supervised learned model can be computationally expensive, and becomes infeasiable as the size of the model and the number of downstream tasks scales.
no code implementations • 2 Mar 2023 • Yu Zhang, Wei Han, James Qin, Yongqiang Wang, Ankur Bapna, Zhehuai Chen, Nanxin Chen, Bo Li, Vera Axelrod, Gary Wang, Zhong Meng, Ke Hu, Andrew Rosenberg, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Daniel S. Park, Parisa Haghani, Jason Riesa, Ginger Perng, Hagen Soltau, Trevor Strohman, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Tara Sainath, Pedro Moreno, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Johan Schalkwyk, Françoise Beaufays, Yonghui Wu
We introduce the Universal Speech Model (USM), a single large model that performs automatic speech recognition (ASR) across 100+ languages.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
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3 code implementations • 3 Feb 2022 • Chung-Cheng Chiu, James Qin, Yu Zhang, Jiahui Yu, Yonghui Wu
In particular the quantizer projects speech inputs with a randomly initialized matrix, and does a nearest-neighbor lookup in a randomly-initialized codebook.
2 code implementations • 20 Jan 2022 • Romal Thoppilan, Daniel De Freitas, Jamie Hall, Noam Shazeer, Apoorv Kulshreshtha, Heng-Tze Cheng, Alicia Jin, Taylor Bos, Leslie Baker, Yu Du, Yaguang Li, Hongrae Lee, Huaixiu Steven Zheng, Amin Ghafouri, Marcelo Menegali, Yanping Huang, Maxim Krikun, Dmitry Lepikhin, James Qin, Dehao Chen, Yuanzhong Xu, Zhifeng Chen, Adam Roberts, Maarten Bosma, Vincent Zhao, Yanqi Zhou, Chung-Ching Chang, Igor Krivokon, Will Rusch, Marc Pickett, Pranesh Srinivasan, Laichee Man, Kathleen Meier-Hellstern, Meredith Ringel Morris, Tulsee Doshi, Renelito Delos Santos, Toju Duke, Johnny Soraker, Ben Zevenbergen, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Mark Diaz, Ben Hutchinson, Kristen Olson, Alejandra Molina, Erin Hoffman-John, Josh Lee, Lora Aroyo, Ravi Rajakumar, Alena Butryna, Matthew Lamm, Viktoriya Kuzmina, Joe Fenton, Aaron Cohen, Rachel Bernstein, Ray Kurzweil, Blaise Aguera-Arcas, Claire Cui, Marian Croak, Ed Chi, Quoc Le
We demonstrate that fine-tuning with annotated data and enabling the model to consult external knowledge sources can lead to significant improvements towards the two key challenges of safety and factual grounding.
Ranked #40 on
Code Generation
on HumanEval
2 code implementations • ICLR 2022 • Jiahui Yu, Xin Li, Jing Yu Koh, Han Zhang, Ruoming Pang, James Qin, Alexander Ku, Yuanzhong Xu, Jason Baldridge, Yonghui Wu
Motivated by this success, we explore a Vector-quantized Image Modeling (VIM) approach that involves pretraining a Transformer to predict rasterized image tokens autoregressively.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2021 • Yu Zhang, Daniel S. Park, Wei Han, James Qin, Anmol Gulati, Joel Shor, Aren Jansen, Yuanzhong Xu, Yanping Huang, Shibo Wang, Zongwei Zhou, Bo Li, Min Ma, William Chan, Jiahui Yu, Yongqiang Wang, Liangliang Cao, Khe Chai Sim, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Tara N. Sainath, Françoise Beaufays, Zhifeng Chen, Quoc V. Le, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Ruoming Pang, Yonghui Wu
We summarize the results of a host of efforts using giant automatic speech recognition (ASR) models pre-trained using large, diverse unlabeled datasets containing approximately a million hours of audio.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+1
2 code implementations • 7 Aug 2021 • Yu-An Chung, Yu Zhang, Wei Han, Chung-Cheng Chiu, James Qin, Ruoming Pang, Yonghui Wu
In particular, when compared to published models such as conformer-based wav2vec~2. 0 and HuBERT, our model shows~5\% to~10\% relative WER reduction on the test-clean and test-other subsets.
Ranked #1 on
Speech Recognition
on LibriSpeech test-clean
(using extra training data)
no code implementations • 30 Apr 2021 • Bo Li, Ruoming Pang, Tara N. Sainath, Anmol Gulati, Yu Zhang, James Qin, Parisa Haghani, W. Ronny Huang, Min Ma, Junwen Bai
Building ASR models across many languages is a challenging multi-task learning problem due to large variations and heavily unbalanced data.
no code implementations • 21 Nov 2020 • Bo Li, Anmol Gulati, Jiahui Yu, Tara N. Sainath, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Arun Narayanan, Shuo-Yiin Chang, Ruoming Pang, Yanzhang He, James Qin, Wei Han, Qiao Liang, Yu Zhang, Trevor Strohman, Yonghui Wu
To address this, we explore replacing the LSTM layers in the encoder of our E2E model with Conformer layers [4], which has shown good improvements for ASR.
Audio and Speech Processing Sound
1 code implementation • 20 Oct 2020 • Yu Zhang, James Qin, Daniel S. Park, Wei Han, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Ruoming Pang, Quoc V. Le, Yonghui Wu
We employ a combination of recent developments in semi-supervised learning for automatic speech recognition to obtain state-of-the-art results on LibriSpeech utilizing the unlabeled audio of the Libri-Light dataset.
Ranked #1 on
Speech Recognition
on LibriSpeech test-clean
(using extra training data)
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+1
no code implementations • 30 Aug 2020 • Wei Li, James Qin, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Ruoming Pang, Yanzhang He
The 2nd-pass model plays a key role in the quality improvement of the end-to-end model to surpass the conventional model.
22 code implementations • 16 May 2020 • Anmol Gulati, James Qin, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Niki Parmar, Yu Zhang, Jiahui Yu, Wei Han, Shibo Wang, Zhengdong Zhang, Yonghui Wu, Ruoming Pang
Recently Transformer and Convolution neural network (CNN) based models have shown promising results in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), outperforming Recurrent neural networks (RNNs).
Ranked #10 on
Speech Recognition
on LibriSpeech test-clean
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+1
6 code implementations • 7 May 2020 • Wei Han, Zhengdong Zhang, Yu Zhang, Jiahui Yu, Chung-Cheng Chiu, James Qin, Anmol Gulati, Ruoming Pang, Yonghui Wu
We demonstrate that on the widely used LibriSpeech benchmark, ContextNet achieves a word error rate (WER) of 2. 1%/4. 6% without external language model (LM), 1. 9%/4. 1% with LM and 2. 9%/7. 0% with only 10M parameters on the clean/noisy LibriSpeech test sets.
Ranked #10 on
Speech Recognition
on LibriSpeech test-clean
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
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2 code implementations • 21 Feb 2019 • Jonathan Shen, Patrick Nguyen, Yonghui Wu, Zhifeng Chen, Mia X. Chen, Ye Jia, Anjuli Kannan, Tara Sainath, Yuan Cao, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Yanzhang He, Jan Chorowski, Smit Hinsu, Stella Laurenzo, James Qin, Orhan Firat, Wolfgang Macherey, Suyog Gupta, Ankur Bapna, Shuyuan Zhang, Ruoming Pang, Ron J. Weiss, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Qiao Liang, Benoit Jacob, Bowen Liang, HyoukJoong Lee, Ciprian Chelba, Sébastien Jean, Bo Li, Melvin Johnson, Rohan Anil, Rajat Tibrewal, Xiaobing Liu, Akiko Eriguchi, Navdeep Jaitly, Naveen Ari, Colin Cherry, Parisa Haghani, Otavio Good, Youlong Cheng, Raziel Alvarez, Isaac Caswell, Wei-Ning Hsu, Zongheng Yang, Kuan-Chieh Wang, Ekaterina Gonina, Katrin Tomanek, Ben Vanik, Zelin Wu, Llion Jones, Mike Schuster, Yanping Huang, Dehao Chen, Kazuki Irie, George Foster, John Richardson, Klaus Macherey, Antoine Bruguier, Heiga Zen, Colin Raffel, Shankar Kumar, Kanishka Rao, David Rybach, Matthew Murray, Vijayaditya Peddinti, Maxim Krikun, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani, Thomas B. Jablin, Rob Suderman, Ian Williams, Benjamin Lee, Deepti Bhatia, Justin Carlson, Semih Yavuz, Yu Zhang, Ian McGraw, Max Galkin, Qi Ge, Golan Pundak, Chad Whipkey, Todd Wang, Uri Alon, Dmitry Lepikhin, Ye Tian, Sara Sabour, William Chan, Shubham Toshniwal, Baohua Liao, Michael Nirschl, Pat Rondon
Lingvo is a Tensorflow framework offering a complete solution for collaborative deep learning research, with a particular focus towards sequence-to-sequence models.