Search Results for author: Ozlem Kalinli

Found 27 papers, 1 papers with code

Towards Selection of Text-to-speech Data to Augment ASR Training

no code implementations30 May 2023 Shuo Liu, Leda Sari, Chunyang Wu, Gil Keren, Yuan Shangguan, Jay Mahadeokar, Ozlem Kalinli

This paper presents a method for selecting appropriate synthetic speech samples from a given large text-to-speech (TTS) dataset as supplementary training data for an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Multi-Head State Space Model for Speech Recognition

no code implementations21 May 2023 Yassir Fathullah, Chunyang Wu, Yuan Shangguan, Junteng Jia, Wenhan Xiong, Jay Mahadeokar, Chunxi Liu, Yangyang Shi, Ozlem Kalinli, Mike Seltzer, Mark J. F. Gales

State space models (SSMs) have recently shown promising results on small-scale sequence and language modelling tasks, rivalling and outperforming many attention-based approaches.

Language Modelling speech-recognition +1

Improving Fast-slow Encoder based Transducer with Streaming Deliberation

no code implementations15 Dec 2022 Ke Li, Jay Mahadeokar, Jinxi Guo, Yangyang Shi, Gil Keren, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer, Duc Le

Experiments on Librispeech and in-house data show relative WER reductions (WERRs) from 3% to 5% with a slight increase in model size and negligible extra token emission latency compared with fast-slow encoder based transducer.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

Massively Multilingual ASR on 70 Languages: Tokenization, Architecture, and Generalization Capabilities

no code implementations10 Nov 2022 Andros Tjandra, Nayan Singhal, David Zhang, Ozlem Kalinli, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Duc Le, Michael L. Seltzer

Later, we use our optimal tokenization strategy to train multiple embedding and output model to further improve our result.

Factorized Blank Thresholding for Improved Runtime Efficiency of Neural Transducers

no code implementations2 Nov 2022 Duc Le, Frank Seide, Yuhao Wang, Yang Li, Kjell Schubert, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer

We show how factoring the RNN-T's output distribution can significantly reduce the computation cost and power consumption for on-device ASR inference with no loss in accuracy.

Joint Audio/Text Training for Transformer Rescorer of Streaming Speech Recognition

no code implementations31 Oct 2022 Suyoun Kim, Ke Li, Lucas Kabela, Rongqing Huang, Jiedan Zhu, Ozlem Kalinli, Duc Le

In this work, we present our Joint Audio/Text training method for Transformer Rescorer, to leverage unpaired text-only data which is relatively cheaper than paired audio-text data.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

Anchored Speech Recognition with Neural Transducers

no code implementations20 Oct 2022 Desh Raj, Junteng Jia, Jay Mahadeokar, Chunyang Wu, Niko Moritz, Xiaohui Zhang, Ozlem Kalinli

In this paper, we investigate anchored speech recognition to make neural transducers robust to background speech.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

Learning a Dual-Mode Speech Recognition Model via Self-Pruning

no code implementations25 Jul 2022 Chunxi Liu, Yuan Shangguan, Haichuan Yang, Yangyang Shi, Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi, Ozlem Kalinli

There is growing interest in unifying the streaming and full-context automatic speech recognition (ASR) networks into a single end-to-end ASR model to simplify the model training and deployment for both use cases.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

Deliberation Model for On-Device Spoken Language Understanding

no code implementations4 Apr 2022 Duc Le, Akshat Shrivastava, Paden Tomasello, Suyoun Kim, Aleksandr Livshits, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer

We propose a novel deliberation-based approach to end-to-end (E2E) spoken language understanding (SLU), where a streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) model produces the first-pass hypothesis and a second-pass natural language understanding (NLU) component generates the semantic parse by conditioning on both ASR's text and audio embeddings.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3

Federated Domain Adaptation for ASR with Full Self-Supervision

no code implementations30 Mar 2022 Junteng Jia, Jay Mahadeokar, Weiyi Zheng, Yuan Shangguan, Ozlem Kalinli, Frank Seide

Cross-device federated learning (FL) protects user privacy by collaboratively training a model on user devices, therefore eliminating the need for collecting, storing, and manually labeling user data.

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Data Augmentation +2

Neural-FST Class Language Model for End-to-End Speech Recognition

no code implementations28 Jan 2022 Antoine Bruguier, Duc Le, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Dangna Li, Zhe Liu, Bo wang, Eun Chang, Fuchun Peng, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer

We propose Neural-FST Class Language Model (NFCLM) for end-to-end speech recognition, a novel method that combines neural network language models (NNLMs) and finite state transducers (FSTs) in a mathematically consistent framework.

Language Modelling speech-recognition +1

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

Transferring Voice Knowledge for Acoustic Event Detection: An Empirical Study

no code implementations7 Oct 2021 Dawei Liang, Yangyang Shi, Yun Wang, Nayan Singhal, Alex Xiao, Jonathan Shaw, Edison Thomaz, Ozlem Kalinli, Mike Seltzer

Detection of common events and scenes from audio is useful for extracting and understanding human contexts in daily life.

Event Detection

Collaborative Training of Acoustic Encoders for Speech Recognition

no code implementations16 Jun 2021 Varun Nagaraja, Yangyang Shi, Ganesh Venkatesh, Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer, Vikas Chandra

On-device speech recognition requires training models of different sizes for deploying on devices with various computational budgets.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

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

Bandwidth Embeddings for Mixed-bandwidth Speech Recognition

1 code implementation5 Sep 2019 Gautam Mantena, Ozlem Kalinli, Ossama Abdel-hamid, Don McAllaster

In this paper, we tackle the problem of handling narrowband and wideband speech by building a single acoustic model (AM), also called mixed bandwidth AM.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

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