A Dual-Decoder Conformer for Multilingual Speech Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.03277v1
• Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 09:22:28 GMT
• Title: A Dual-Decoder Conformer for Multilingual Speech Recognition
• Authors: Krishna D N
• Abstract summary: This work proposes a dual-decoder transformer model for low-resource multilingual speech recognition for Indian languages. We use a phoneme decoder (PHN-DEC) for the phoneme recognition task and a grapheme decoder (GRP-DEC) to predict grapheme sequence along with language information. Our experiments show that we can obtain a significant reduction in WER over the baseline approaches.
• Score: 4.594159253008448
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Transformer-based models have recently become very popular for sequence-to-sequence applications such as machine translation and speech recognition. This work proposes a dual-decoder transformer model for low-resource multilingual speech recognition for Indian languages. Our proposed model consists of a Conformer [1] encoder, two parallel transformer decoders, and a language classifier. We use a phoneme decoder (PHN-DEC) for the phoneme recognition task and a grapheme decoder (GRP-DEC) to predict grapheme sequence along with language information. We consider phoneme recognition and language identification as auxiliary tasks in the multi-task learning framework. We jointly optimize the network for phoneme recognition, grapheme recognition, and language identification tasks with Joint CTC-Attention [2] training. Our experiments show that we can obtain a significant reduction in WER over the baseline approaches. We also show that our dual-decoder approach obtains significant improvement over the single decoder approach.

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