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.
no code implementations • 18 Jun 2021 • Katrin Tomanek, Françoise Beaufays, Julie Cattiau, Angad Chandorkar, Khe Chai Sim
While current state-of-the-art Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems achieve high accuracy on typical speech, they suffer from significant performance degradation on disordered speech and other atypical speech patterns.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1
no code implementations • 8 Jul 2021 • Subhashini Venugopalan, Joel Shor, Manoj Plakal, Jimmy Tobin, Katrin Tomanek, Jordan R. Green, Michael P. Brenner
Automatic classification of disordered speech can provide an objective tool for identifying the presence and severity of speech impairment.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Katrin Tomanek, Vicky Zayats, Dirk Padfield, Kara Vaillancourt, Fadi Biadsy
We demonstrate this on two speech adaptation tasks (atypical and accented speech) and for two state-of-the-art ASR architectures.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1
no code implementations • 9 Oct 2021 • Jimmy Tobin, Katrin Tomanek
Word error rate (WER) thresholds were selected to determine Success Percentage (the percentage of personalized models reaching the target WER) in different application scenarios.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1
no code implementations • NAACL 2022 • Shanqing Cai, Subhashini Venugopalan, Katrin Tomanek, Ajit Narayanan, Meredith Ringel Morris, Michael P. Brenner
Motivated by the need for accelerating text entry in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for people with severe motor impairments, we propose a paradigm in which phrases are abbreviated aggressively as primarily word-initial letters.
no code implementations • 21 Sep 2022 • Jimmy Tobin, Qisheng Li, Subhashini Venugopalan, Katie Seaver, Richard Cave, Katrin Tomanek
BERTScore was found to be more correlated with human assessment of error type and assessment.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2022 • Katrin Tomanek, Katie Seaver, Pan-Pan Jiang, Richard Cave, Lauren Harrel, Jordan R. Green
Although personalized automatic speech recognition (ASR) models have recently been designed to recognize even severely impaired speech, model performance may degrade over time for persons with degenerating speech.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1
no code implementations • 13 Feb 2023 • Maximilian Mozes, Jessica Hoffmann, Katrin Tomanek, Muhamed Kouate, Nithum Thain, Ann Yuan, Tolga Bolukbasi, Lucas Dixon
Text-based safety classifiers are widely used for content moderation and increasingly to tune generative language model behavior - a topic of growing concern for the safety of digital assistants and chatbots.
no code implementations • 3 Dec 2023 • Shanqing Cai, Subhashini Venugopalan, Katie Seaver, Xiang Xiao, Katrin Tomanek, Sri Jalasutram, Meredith Ringel Morris, Shaun Kane, Ajit Narayanan, Robert L. MacDonald, Emily Kornman, Daniel Vance, Blair Casey, Steve M. Gleason, Philip Q. Nelson, Michael P. Brenner
A pilot study with 19 non-AAC participants typing on a mobile device by hand demonstrated gains in motor savings in line with the offline simulation, while introducing relatively small effects on overall typing speed.
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2023 • Katrin Tomanek, Shanqing Cai, Subhashini Venugopalan
Abbreviation expansion is a strategy used to speed up communication by limiting the amount of typing and using a language model to suggest expansions.
no code implementations • 13 Mar 2024 • Tyler A. Chang, Katrin Tomanek, Jessica Hoffmann, Nithum Thain, Erin Van Liemt, Kathleen Meier-Hellstern, Lucas Dixon
We explore a strategy to handle controversial topics in LLM-based chatbots based on Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View (NPOV) principle: acknowledge the absence of a single true answer and surface multiple perspectives.