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Subword Regularization and Beam Search Decoding for End-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition


Abstract:

In this paper, we experiment with the recently introduced subword regularization technique [1] in the context of end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR). We present...Show More

Abstract:

In this paper, we experiment with the recently introduced subword regularization technique [1] in the context of end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR). We present results from both attention-based and CTC-based ASR systems on two common benchmark datasets, the 80 hour Wall Street Journal corpus and 1,000 hour Librispeech corpus. We also introduce a novel subword beam search decoding algorithm that significantly improves the final performance of the CTC-based systems. Overall, we find that subword regularization improves the performance of both types of ASR systems, with the regularized attention-based model performing best overall.
Date of Conference: 12-17 May 2019
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 17 April 2019
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Conference Location: Brighton, UK

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