Search Results for author: Patrick Nguyen

Found 16 papers, 6 papers with code

Lingvo: a Modular and Scalable Framework for Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling

2 code implementations21 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.

Sequence-To-Sequence Speech Recognition

State-of-the-art Speech Recognition With Sequence-to-Sequence Models

4 code implementations5 Dec 2017 Chung-Cheng Chiu, Tara N. Sainath, Yonghui Wu, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Patrick Nguyen, Zhifeng Chen, Anjuli Kannan, Ron J. Weiss, Kanishka Rao, Ekaterina Gonina, Navdeep Jaitly, Bo Li, Jan Chorowski, Michiel Bacchiani

Attention-based encoder-decoder architectures such as Listen, Attend, and Spell (LAS), subsume the acoustic, pronunciation and language model components of a traditional automatic speech recognition (ASR) system into a single neural network.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

Minimum Word Error Rate Training for Attention-based Sequence-to-Sequence Models

2 code implementations5 Dec 2017 Rohit Prabhavalkar, Tara N. Sainath, Yonghui Wu, Patrick Nguyen, Zhifeng Chen, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Anjuli Kannan

Sequence-to-sequence models, such as attention-based models in automatic speech recognition (ASR), are typically trained to optimize the cross-entropy criterion which corresponds to improving the log-likelihood of the data.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

On the Choice of Modeling Unit for Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition

3 code implementations5 Feb 2019 Kazuki Irie, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Anjuli Kannan, Antoine Bruguier, David Rybach, Patrick Nguyen

We also investigate model complementarity: we find that we can improve WERs by up to 9% relative by rescoring N-best lists generated from a strong word-piece based baseline with either the phoneme or the grapheme model.

Language Modelling Sequence-To-Sequence Speech Recognition +1

Hierarchical Generative Modeling for Controllable Speech Synthesis

2 code implementations ICLR 2019 Wei-Ning Hsu, Yu Zhang, Ron J. Weiss, Heiga Zen, Yonghui Wu, Yuxuan Wang, Yuan Cao, Ye Jia, Zhifeng Chen, Jonathan Shen, Patrick Nguyen, Ruoming Pang

This paper proposes a neural sequence-to-sequence text-to-speech (TTS) model which can control latent attributes in the generated speech that are rarely annotated in the training data, such as speaking style, accent, background noise, and recording conditions.

Attribute Speech Synthesis

No Need for a Lexicon? Evaluating the Value of the Pronunciation Lexica in End-to-End Models

no code implementations5 Dec 2017 Tara N. Sainath, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Shankar Kumar, Seungji Lee, Anjuli Kannan, David Rybach, Vlad Schogol, Patrick Nguyen, Bo Li, Yonghui Wu, Zhifeng Chen, Chung-Cheng Chiu

However, there has been little previous work comparing phoneme-based versus grapheme-based sub-word units in the end-to-end modeling framework, to determine whether the gains from such approaches are primarily due to the new probabilistic model, or from the joint learning of the various components with grapheme-based units.

Language Modelling

Improving the Performance of Online Neural Transducer Models

no code implementations5 Dec 2017 Tara N. Sainath, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Anjuli Kannan, Yonghui Wu, Patrick Nguyen, Zhifeng Chen

Neural transducer is a streaming sequence-to-sequence model, but has shown a significant degradation in performance compared to non-streaming models such as Listen, Attend and Spell (LAS).

Multi-Dialect Speech Recognition With A Single Sequence-To-Sequence Model

no code implementations5 Dec 2017 Bo Li, Tara N. Sainath, Khe Chai Sim, Michiel Bacchiani, Eugene Weinstein, Patrick Nguyen, Zhifeng Chen, Yonghui Wu, Kanishka Rao

Sequence-to-sequence models provide a simple and elegant solution for building speech recognition systems by folding separate components of a typical system, namely acoustic (AM), pronunciation (PM) and language (LM) models into a single neural network.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

CaLcs: Continuously Approximating Longest Common Subsequence for Sequence Level Optimization

no code implementations EMNLP 2018 Semih Yavuz, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Patrick Nguyen, Yonghui Wu

Maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) is one of the most widely used approaches for training structured prediction models for text-generation based natural language processing applications.

Abstractive Text Summarization Image Captioning +5

StarNet: Targeted Computation for Object Detection in Point Clouds

no code implementations29 Aug 2019 Jiquan Ngiam, Benjamin Caine, Wei Han, Brandon Yang, Yuning Chai, Pei Sun, Yin Zhou, Xi Yi, Ouais Alsharif, Patrick Nguyen, Zhifeng Chen, Jonathon Shlens, Vijay Vasudevan

We show how our redesign---namely using only local information and using sampling instead of learned proposals---leads to a significantly more flexible and adaptable system: we demonstrate how we can vary the computational cost of a single trained StarNet without retraining, and how we can target proposals towards areas of interest with priors and heuristics.

3D Object Detection Object +3

Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition

no code implementations Signal Processing Magazine 2012 Geoffrey Hinton, Li Deng, Dong Yu, George Dahl, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Navdeep Jaitly, Andrew Senior, Vincent Vanhoucke, Patrick Nguyen, Tara Sainath, Brian Kingsbury

Most current speech recognition systems use hidden Markov models (HMMs) to deal with the temporal variability of speech and Gaussian mixture models to determine how well each state of each HMM fits a frame or a short window of frames of coefficients that represents the acoustic input.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

RNN-T Models Fail to Generalize to Out-of-Domain Audio: Causes and Solutions

no code implementations7 May 2020 Chung-Cheng Chiu, Arun Narayanan, Wei Han, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Yu Zhang, Navdeep Jaitly, Ruoming Pang, Tara N. Sainath, Patrick Nguyen, Liangliang Cao, Yonghui Wu

On a long-form YouTube test set, when the nonstreaming RNN-T model is trained with shorter segments of data, the proposed combination improves word error rate (WER) from 22. 3% to 14. 8%; when the streaming RNN-T model trained on short Search queries, the proposed techniques improve WER on the YouTube set from 67. 0% to 25. 3%.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

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