Dynamic Latency for CTC-Based Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition With Emformer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15613v1
• Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:31:06 GMT
• Title: Dynamic Latency for CTC-Based Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition With Emformer
• Authors: Jingyu Sun, Guiping Zhong, Dinghao Zhou, Baoxiang Li
• Abstract summary: A frame-level model using efficient augment memory transformer block and dynamic latency training method is employed for streaming automatic speech recognition. With an average latency of 640ms, our model achieves a relative WER reduction of 6.4% on test-clean and 3.0% on test-other versus the truncate chunk-wise Transformer.
• Score: 0.4588028371034407
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: An inferior performance of the streaming automatic speech recognition models versus non-streaming model is frequently seen due to the absence of future context. In order to improve the performance of the streaming model and reduce the computational complexity, a frame-level model using efficient augment memory transformer block and dynamic latency training method is employed for streaming automatic speech recognition in this paper. The long-range history context is stored into the augment memory bank as a complement to the limited history context used in the encoder. Key and value are cached by a cache mechanism and reused for next chunk to reduce computation. Afterwards, a dynamic latency training method is proposed to obtain better performance and support low and high latency inference simultaneously. Our experiments are conducted on benchmark 960h LibriSpeech data set. With an average latency of 640ms, our model achieves a relative WER reduction of 6.0% on test-clean and 3.0% on test-other versus the truncate chunk-wise Transformer.

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