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Voice search is the technology that enables users to access information using spoken queries. Automatic speech recognizer (ASR) is one of the key modules for voice search systems. However, the high error rate of the state-of-the-art large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) is the bottleneck for most voice search systems. In this paper, we first build a baseline system using language model (LM) with domain-specific information. To improve our system, we propose a forward-backward LVCSR system combination method to decrease the search errors in speech recognition. This also helps to improve the spoken language understanding (SLU) performance. Experiment results show that our proposed method improves the performance of speech recognition by 5.7% relative CER reduction and increases the F1-measure of SLU by 1.5% absolute on our test set.
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Li, T., Bao, C., Xu, W., Pan, J., Yan, Y. (2009). Improving Voice Search Using Forward-Backward LVCSR System Combination. In: Wang, H., Shen, Y., Huang, T., Zeng, Z. (eds) The Sixth International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2009). Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 56. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01216-7_82
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