Enhancing Code-Switching ASR Leveraging Non-Peaky CTC Loss and Deep Language Posterior Injection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08651v1
• Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 06:49:05 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Code-Switching ASR Leveraging Non-Peaky CTC Loss and Deep Language Posterior Injection
• Authors: Tzu-Ting Yang, Hsin-Wei Wang, Yi-Cheng Wang, Berlin Chen,
• Abstract summary: Code-switching where multilingual speakers alternately switch between languages during conversations poses significant challenges to end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Our main contributions are at least threefold: First, we incorporate language identification information into several intermediate layers of the encoder, aiming to enrich output embeddings with more detailed language information. Second, through the novel application of language boundary alignment loss, the subsequent ASR modules are enabled to more effectively utilize the knowledge of internal language posteriors.
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• Abstract: Code-switching-where multilingual speakers alternately switch between languages during conversations-still poses significant challenges to end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems due to phenomena of both acoustic and semantic confusion. This issue arises because ASR systems struggle to handle the rapid alternation of languages effectively, which often leads to significant performance degradation. Our main contributions are at least threefold: First, we incorporate language identification (LID) information into several intermediate layers of the encoder, aiming to enrich output embeddings with more detailed language information. Secondly, through the novel application of language boundary alignment loss, the subsequent ASR modules are enabled to more effectively utilize the knowledge of internal language posteriors. Third, we explore the feasibility of using language posteriors to facilitate deep interaction between shared encoder and language-specific encoders. Through comprehensive experiments on the SEAME corpus, we have verified that our proposed method outperforms the prior-art method, disentangle based mixture-of-experts (D-MoE), further enhancing the acuity of the encoder to languages.

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