Ron Huang
2022
Joint Audio/Text Training for Transformer Rescorer of Streaming Speech Recognition
Suyoun Kim
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Ke Li
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Lucas Kabela
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Ron Huang
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Jiedan Zhu
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Ozlem Kalinli
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Duc Le
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
Recently, there has been an increasing interest in two-pass streaming end-to-end speech recognition (ASR) that incorporates a 2nd-pass rescoring model on top of the conventional 1st-pass streaming ASR model to improve recognition accuracy while keeping latency low. One of the latest 2nd-pass rescoring model, Transformer Rescorer, takes the n-best initial outputs and audio embeddings from the 1st-pass model, and then choose the best output by re-scoring the n-best initial outputs. However, training this Transformer Rescorer requires expensive paired audio-text training data because the model uses audio embeddings as input. 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. We evaluate Transformer Rescorer with our Joint Audio/Text training on Librispeech dataset as well as our large-scale in-house dataset and show that our training method can improve word error rate (WER) significantly compared to standard Transformer Rescorer without requiring any extra model parameters or latency.
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- Ke Li 1
- Lucas Kabela 1
- Jiedan Zhu 1
- Ozlem Kalinli 1
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- Duc Le 1