LongFNT: Long-form Speech Recognition with Factorized Neural Transducer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09412v1
• Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 08:48:27 GMT
• Title: LongFNT: Long-form Speech Recognition with Factorized Neural Transducer
• Authors: Xun Gong, Yu Wu, Jinyu Li, Shujie Liu, Rui Zhao, Xie Chen, Yanmin Qian
• Abstract summary: We propose the LongFNT-Text architecture, which fuses the sentence-level long-form features directly with the output of the vocabulary predictor. The effectiveness of our LongFNT approach is validated on LibriSpeech and GigaSpeech corpora with 19% and 12% relative word error rate(WER) reduction, respectively.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Traditional automatic speech recognition~(ASR) systems usually focus on individual utterances, without considering long-form speech with useful historical information, which is more practical in real scenarios. Simply attending longer transcription history for a vanilla neural transducer model shows no much gain in our preliminary experiments, since the prediction network is not a pure language model. This motivates us to leverage the factorized neural transducer structure, containing a real language model, the vocabulary predictor. We propose the {LongFNT-Text} architecture, which fuses the sentence-level long-form features directly with the output of the vocabulary predictor and then embeds token-level long-form features inside the vocabulary predictor, with a pre-trained contextual encoder RoBERTa to further boost the performance. Moreover, we propose the {LongFNT} architecture by extending the long-form speech to the original speech input and achieve the best performance. The effectiveness of our LongFNT approach is validated on LibriSpeech and GigaSpeech corpora with 19% and 12% relative word error rate~(WER) reduction, respectively.

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