Reducing Geographic Disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition via Elastic Weight Consolidation

no code implementations • 16 Jul 2022 • Viet Anh Trinh, Pegah Ghahremani, Brian King, Jasha Droppo, Andreas Stolcke, Roland Maas

A popular approach is to fine-tune the model with data from regions where the ASR model has a higher word error rate (WER).

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

Listen with Intent: Improving Speech Recognition with Audio-to-Intent Front-End

no code implementations • 14 May 2021 • Swayambhu Nath Ray, Minhua Wu, Anirudh Raju, Pegah Ghahremani, Raghavendra Bilgi, Milind Rao, Harish Arsikere, Ariya Rastrow, Andreas Stolcke, Jasha Droppo

On the other hand, a streaming system using per-frame intent posteriors as extra inputs for the RNN-T ASR system yields a 3. 33% relative WERR.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

An Empirical Evaluation of Zero Resource Acoustic Unit Discovery

no code implementations • 5 Feb 2017 • Chunxi Liu, Jinyi Yang, Ming Sun, Santosh Kesiraju, Alena Rott, Lucas Ondel, Pegah Ghahremani, Najim Dehak, Lukas Burget, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Acoustic unit discovery (AUD) is a process of automatically identifying a categorical acoustic unit inventory from speech and producing corresponding acoustic unit tokenizations.

Acoustic Unit Discovery