Scenario Aware Speech Recognition: Advancements for Apollo Fearless Steps & CHiME-4 Corpora

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11086v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:43:32 GMT
• Title: Scenario Aware Speech Recognition: Advancements for Apollo Fearless Steps & CHiME-4 Corpora
• Authors: Szu-Jui Chen, Wei Xia, John H.L. Hansen
• Abstract summary: We consider a general non-semantic speech representation, which is trained with a self-supervised criteria based on triplet loss called TRILL. We observe +5.42% and +3.18% relative WER improvement for the development and evaluation sets of Fearless Steps.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In this study, we propose to investigate triplet loss for the purpose of an alternative feature representation for ASR. We consider a general non-semantic speech representation, which is trained with a self-supervised criteria based on triplet loss called TRILL, for acoustic modeling to represent the acoustic characteristics of each audio. This strategy is then applied to the CHiME-4 corpus and CRSS-UTDallas Fearless Steps Corpus, with emphasis on the 100-hour challenge corpus which consists of 5 selected NASA Apollo-11 channels. An analysis of the extracted embeddings provides the foundation needed to characterize training utterances into distinct groups based on acoustic distinguishing properties. Moreover, we also demonstrate that triplet-loss based embedding performs better than i-Vector in acoustic modeling, confirming that the triplet loss is more effective than a speaker feature. With additional techniques such as pronunciation and silence probability modeling, plus multi-style training, we achieve a +5.42% and +3.18% relative WER improvement for the development and evaluation sets of the Fearless Steps Corpus. To explore generalization, we further test the same technique on the 1 channel track of CHiME-4 and observe a +11.90% relative WER improvement for real test data.

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