Gated Embeddings in End-to-End Speech Recognition for Conversational-Context Fusion

Suyoun Kim, Siddharth Dalmia, Florian Metze


Abstract
We present a novel conversational-context aware end-to-end speech recognizer based on a gated neural network that incorporates conversational-context/word/speech embeddings. Unlike conventional speech recognition models, our model learns longer conversational-context information that spans across sentences and is consequently better at recognizing long conversations. Specifically, we propose to use text-based external word and/or sentence embeddings (i.e., fastText, BERT) within an end-to-end framework, yielding significant improvement in word error rate with better conversational-context representation. We evaluated the models on the Switchboard conversational speech corpus and show that our model outperforms standard end-to-end speech recognition models.
Anthology ID:
P19-1107
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
Editors:
Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1131–1141
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1107
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1107
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Suyoun Kim, Siddharth Dalmia, and Florian Metze. 2019. Gated Embeddings in End-to-End Speech Recognition for Conversational-Context Fusion. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1131–1141, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Gated Embeddings in End-to-End Speech Recognition for Conversational-Context Fusion (Kim et al., ACL 2019)
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