Improving Character Error Rate Is Not Equal to Having Clean Speech: Speech Enhancement for ASR Systems with Black-box Acoustic Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05968v1
• Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:51:53 GMT
• Title: Improving Character Error Rate Is Not Equal to Having Clean Speech: Speech Enhancement for ASR Systems with Black-box Acoustic Models
• Authors: Ryosuke Sawata, Yosuke Kashiwagi and Shusuke Takahashi
• Abstract summary: A deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement (SE) is proposed in this paper. Our method uses two DNNs: one for speech processing and one for mimicking the output CERs derived through an acoustic model (AM) Experimental results show that our method improved CER by 7.3% relative derived through a black-box AM although certain noise levels are kept.
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• Abstract: A deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement (SE) aiming to maximize the performance of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is proposed in this paper. In order to optimize the DNN-based SE model in terms of the character error rate (CER), which is one of the metric to evaluate the ASR system and generally non-differentiable, our method uses two DNNs: one for speech processing and one for mimicking the output CERs derived through an acoustic model (AM). Then both of DNNs are alternately optimized in the training phase. Even if the AM is a black-box, e.g., like one provided by a third-party, the proposed method enables the DNN-based SE model to be optimized in terms of the CER since the DNN mimicking the AM is differentiable. Consequently, it becomes feasible to build CER-centric SE model that has no negative effect, e.g., additional calculation cost and changing network architecture, on the inference phase since our method is merely a training scheme for the existing DNN-based methods. Experimental results show that our method improved CER by 7.3% relative derived through a black-box AM although certain noise levels are kept.

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