Lego-Features: Exporting modular encoder features for streaming and deliberation ASR

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00173v1
• Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 23:33:21 GMT
• Title: Lego-Features: Exporting modular encoder features for streaming and deliberation ASR
• Authors: Rami Botros, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Johan Schalkwyk, Ciprian Chelba, Tara N. Sainath, Fran\c{c}oise Beaufays
• Abstract summary: We build on work that has begun to explore building encoders with modular encoded representations. Our framework builds on top of existing encoded representations, converting them to modular features, dubbed as Lego-Features. Though sparse, we show that the Lego-Features are powerful when tested with RNN-T or LAS decoders.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In end-to-end (E2E) speech recognition models, a representational tight-coupling inevitably emerges between the encoder and the decoder. We build upon recent work that has begun to explore building encoders with modular encoded representations, such that encoders and decoders from different models can be stitched together in a zero-shot manner without further fine-tuning. While previous research only addresses full-context speech models, we explore the problem in a streaming setting as well. Our framework builds on top of existing encoded representations, converting them to modular features, dubbed as Lego-Features, without modifying the pre-trained model. The features remain interchangeable when the model is retrained with distinct initializations. Though sparse, we show that the Lego-Features are powerful when tested with RNN-T or LAS decoders, maintaining high-quality downstream performance. They are also rich enough to represent the first-pass prediction during two-pass deliberation. In this scenario, they outperform the N-best hypotheses, since they do not need to be supplemented with acoustic features to deliver the best results. Moreover, generating the Lego-Features does not require beam search or auto-regressive computation. Overall, they present a modular, powerful and cheap alternative to the standard encoder output, as well as the N-best hypotheses.

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