Combining Unsupervised and Text Augmented Semi-Supervised Learning for Low Resourced Autoregressive Speech Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15836v1
• Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:59:18 GMT
• Title: Combining Unsupervised and Text Augmented Semi-Supervised Learning for Low Resourced Autoregressive Speech Recognition
• Authors: Chak-Fai Li, Francis Keith, William Hartmann, Matthew Snover
• Abstract summary: We pretrain state-of-the-art Conformer models in an unsupervised manner. Additional text data is incorporated through external language models. Final performance is an additional 2% better absolute when using CTC-based decoding for semi-supervised training.
• Score: 7.067186994804316
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances in unsupervised representation learning have demonstrated the impact of pretraining on large amounts of read speech. We adapt these techniques for domain adaptation in low-resource -- both in terms of data and compute -- conversational and broadcast domains. Moving beyond CTC, we pretrain state-of-the-art Conformer models in an unsupervised manner. While the unsupervised approach outperforms traditional semi-supervised training, the techniques are complementary. Combining the techniques is a 5% absolute improvement in WER, averaged over all conditions, compared to semi-supervised training alone. Additional text data is incorporated through external language models. By using CTC-based decoding, we are better able to take advantage of the additional text data. When used as a transcription model, it allows the Conformer model to better incorporate the knowledge from the language model through semi-supervised training than shallow fusion. Final performance is an additional 2% better absolute when using CTC-based decoding for semi-supervised training compared to shallow fusion.

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