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Inchul Song

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A Highly Adaptive Acoustic Model for Accurate Multi-dialect Speech Recognition
Sanghyun Yoo
Inchul Song
Yoshua Bengio
Despite the success of deep learning in speech recognition, multi-dialect speech recognition remains a difficult problem. Although dialect-s… (see more)pecific acoustic models are known to perform well in general, they are not easy to maintain when dialect-specific data is scarce and the number of dialects for each language is large. Therefore, a single unified acoustic model (AM) that generalizes well for many dialects has been in demand. In this paper, we propose a novel acoustic modeling technique for accurate multi-dialect speech recognition with a single AM. Our proposed AM is dynamically adapted based on both dialect information and its internal representation, which results in a highly adaptive AM for handling multiple dialects simultaneously. We also propose a simple but effective training method to deal with unseen dialects. The experimental results on large scale speech datasets show that the proposed AM outperforms all the previous ones, reducing word error rates (WERs) by 8.11% relative compared to a single all-dialects AM and by 7.31% relative compared to dialect-specific AMs.
2019-05-12
ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (published)
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Dynamic Frame Skipping for Fast Speech Recognition in Recurrent Neural Network Based Acoustic Models
Inchul Song
Junyoung Chung
Taesup Kim
Yoshua Bengio
A recurrent neural network is a powerful tool for modeling sequential data such as text and speech. While recurrent neural networks have ach… (see more)ieved record-breaking results in speech recognition, one remaining challenge is their slow processing speed. The main cause comes from the nature of recurrent neural networks that read only one frame at each time step. Therefore, reducing the number of reads is an effective approach to reducing processing time. In this paper, we propose a novel recurrent neural network architecture called Skip-RNN, which dynamically skips speech frames that are less important. The Skip-RNN consists of an acoustic model network and skip-policy network that are jointly trained to classify speech frames and determine how many frames to skip. We evaluate our proposed approach on the Wall Street Journal corpus and show that it can accelerate acoustic model computation by up to 2.4 times without any noticeable degradation in transcription accuracy.
2018-04-15
2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (published)
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