XCB: an effective contextual biasing approach to bias cross-lingual phrases in speech recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10524v1
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 04:00:19 GMT
• Title: XCB: an effective contextual biasing approach to bias cross-lingual phrases in speech recognition
• Authors: Xucheng Wan, Naijun Zheng, Kai Liu, Huan Zhou,
• Abstract summary: This study introduces a Cross-lingual Contextual Biasing(XCB) module. We augment a pre-trained ASR model for the dominant language by integrating an auxiliary language biasing module and a language-specific loss. Experimental results conducted on our in-house code-switching dataset have validated the efficacy of our approach.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Contextualized ASR models have been demonstrated to effectively improve the recognition accuracy of uncommon phrases when a predefined phrase list is available. However, these models often struggle with bilingual settings, which are prevalent in code-switching speech recognition. In this study, we make the initial attempt to address this challenge by introducing a Cross-lingual Contextual Biasing(XCB) module. Specifically, we augment a pre-trained ASR model for the dominant language by integrating an auxiliary language biasing module and a supplementary language-specific loss, aimed at enhancing the recognition of phrases in the secondary language. Experimental results conducted on our in-house code-switching dataset have validated the efficacy of our approach, demonstrating significant improvements in the recognition of biasing phrases in the secondary language, even without any additional inference overhead. Additionally, our proposed system exhibits both efficiency and generalization when is applied by the unseen ASRU-2019 test set.

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