AdaCS: Adaptive Normalization for Enhanced Code-Switching ASR

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07102v1
• Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 07:27:00 GMT
• Title: AdaCS: Adaptive Normalization for Enhanced Code-Switching ASR
• Authors: The Chuong Chu, Vu Tuan Dat Pham, Kien Dao, Hoang Nguyen, Quoc Hung Truong,
• Abstract summary: Intra-sentential code-switching is a significant challenge for Automatic Speech Recognition systems. AdaCS is a normalization model integrates an adaptive bias attention module into encoder-decoder network. Experiments show that AdaCS outperforms previous state-of-the-art method on Vietnamese CS ASR normalization.
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• Abstract: Intra-sentential code-switching (CS) refers to the alternation between languages that happens within a single utterance and is a significant challenge for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. For example, when a Vietnamese speaker uses foreign proper names or specialized terms within their speech. ASR systems often struggle to accurately transcribe intra-sentential CS due to their training on monolingual data and the unpredictable nature of CS. This issue is even more pronounced for low-resource languages, where limited data availability hinders the development of robust models. In this study, we propose AdaCS, a normalization model integrates an adaptive bias attention module (BAM) into encoder-decoder network. This novel approach provides a robust solution to CS ASR in unseen domains, thereby significantly enhancing our contribution to the field. By utilizing BAM to both identify and normalize CS phrases, AdaCS enhances its adaptive capabilities with a biased list of words provided during inference. Our method demonstrates impressive performance and the ability to handle unseen CS phrases across various domains. Experiments show that AdaCS outperforms previous state-of-the-art method on Vietnamese CS ASR normalization by considerable WER reduction of 56.2% and 36.8% on the two proposed test sets.

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