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Hierarchical Transformer-based Large-Context End-to-end ASR with Large-Context Knowledge Distillation

2021-02-16 03:15:15
Ryo Masumura, Naoki Makishima, Mana Ihori, Akihiko Takashima, Tomohiro Tanaka, Shota Orihashi

Abstract

We present a novel large-context end-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E-ASR) model and its effective training method based on knowledge distillation. Common E2E-ASR models have mainly focused on utterance-level processing in which each utterance is independently transcribed. On the other hand, large-context E2E-ASR models, which take into account long-range sequential contexts beyond utterance boundaries, well handle a sequence of utterances such as discourses and conversations. However, the transformer architecture, which has recently achieved state-of-the-art ASR performance among utterance-level ASR systems, has not yet been introduced into the large-context ASR systems. We can expect that the transformer architecture can be leveraged for effectively capturing not only input speech contexts but also long-range sequential contexts beyond utterance boundaries. Therefore, this paper proposes a hierarchical transformer-based large-context E2E-ASR model that combines the transformer architecture with hierarchical encoder-decoder based large-context modeling. In addition, in order to enable the proposed model to use long-range sequential contexts, we also propose a large-context knowledge distillation that distills the knowledge from a pre-trained large-context language model in the training phase. We evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed model and proposed training method on Japanese discourse ASR tasks.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07935

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.07935.pdf


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