Memory-augmented conformer for improved end-to-end long-form ASR

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13029v1
• Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 17:44:58 GMT
• Title: Memory-augmented conformer for improved end-to-end long-form ASR
• Authors: Carlos Carvalho and Alberto Abad
• Abstract summary: We propose a memory-augmented neural network between the encoder and decoder of a conformer. This external memory can enrich the generalization for longer utterances. We show that the proposed system outperforms the baseline conformer without memory for long utterances.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Conformers have recently been proposed as a promising modelling approach for automatic speech recognition (ASR), outperforming recurrent neural network-based approaches and transformers. Nevertheless, in general, the performance of these end-to-end models, especially attention-based models, is particularly degraded in the case of long utterances. To address this limitation, we propose adding a fully-differentiable memory-augmented neural network between the encoder and decoder of a conformer. This external memory can enrich the generalization for longer utterances since it allows the system to store and retrieve more information recurrently. Notably, we explore the neural Turing machine (NTM) that results in our proposed Conformer-NTM model architecture for ASR. Experimental results using Librispeech train-clean-100 and train-960 sets show that the proposed system outperforms the baseline conformer without memory for long utterances.

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