End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding: Performance analyses of a voice command task in a low resource setting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08179v1
• Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 13:51:56 GMT
• Title: End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding: Performance analyses of a voice command task in a low resource setting
• Authors: Thierry Desot, Fran\c{c}ois Portet, Michel Vacher
• Abstract summary: We present a study identifying the signal features and other linguistic properties used by an E2E model to perform the Spoken Language Understanding task. The study is carried out in the application domain of a smart home that has to handle non-English (here French) voice commands.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is a core task in most human-machine interaction systems. With the emergence of smart homes, smart phones and smart speakers, SLU has become a key technology for the industry. In a classical SLU approach, an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) module transcribes the speech signal into a textual representation from which a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) module extracts semantic information. Recently End-to-End SLU (E2E SLU) based on Deep Neural Networks has gained momentum since it benefits from the joint optimization of the ASR and the NLU parts, hence limiting the cascade of error effect of the pipeline architecture. However, little is known about the actual linguistic properties used by E2E models to predict concepts and intents from speech input. In this paper, we present a study identifying the signal features and other linguistic properties used by an E2E model to perform the SLU task. The study is carried out in the application domain of a smart home that has to handle non-English (here French) voice commands. The results show that a good E2E SLU performance does not always require a perfect ASR capability. Furthermore, the results show the superior capabilities of the E2E model in handling background noise and syntactic variation compared to the pipeline model. Finally, a finer-grained analysis suggests that the E2E model uses the pitch information of the input signal to identify voice command concepts. The results and methodology outlined in this paper provide a springboard for further analyses of E2E models in speech processing.

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