Publication detail

BCN2BRNO: ASR System Fusion for Albayzin 2020 Speech to Text Challenge

KOCOUR, M. CÁMBARA, G. LUQUE, J. BONET, D. FARRÚS, M. KARAFIÁT, M. VESELÝ, K. ČERNOCKÝ, J.

Original Title

BCN2BRNO: ASR System Fusion for Albayzin 2020 Speech to Text Challenge

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper describes the joint effort of BUT and Telefónica Research on the development of Automatic Speech Recognition systems for the Albayzin 2020 Challenge. We compare approaches based on either hybrid or end-to-end models. In hybrid modelling, we explore the impact of a SpecAugment layer on performance. For end-to-end modelling, we used a convolutional neural network with gated linear units (GLUs). The performance of such model is also evaluated with an additional n-gram language model to improve word error rates. We further inspect source separation methods to extract speech from noisy environments (i.e. TV shows). More precisely, we assess the effect of using a neural-based music separator named Demucs. A fusion of our best systems achieved 23.33% WER in official Albayzin 2020 evaluations. Aside from techniques used in our final submitted systems, we also describe our efforts in retrieving high-quality transcripts for training.

Keywords

fusion, end-to-end model, hybrid model, semisupervised, automatic speech recognition, convolutional neural network.

Authors

KOCOUR, M.; CÁMBARA, G.; LUQUE, J.; BONET, D.; FARRÚS, M.; KARAFIÁT, M.; VESELÝ, K.; ČERNOCKÝ, J.

Released

24. 3. 2021

Publisher

International Speech Communication Association

Location

Vallaloid

Pages from

113

Pages to

117

Pages count

5

URL

https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/iberspeech_2021/kocour21_iberspeech.html

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT175823,
  author="KOCOUR, M. and CÁMBARA, G. and LUQUE, J. and BONET, D. and FARRÚS, M. and KARAFIÁT, M. and VESELÝ, K. and ČERNOCKÝ, J.",
  title="BCN2BRNO: ASR System Fusion for Albayzin 2020 Speech to Text Challenge",
  booktitle="Proceedings of IberSPEECH 2021",
  year="2021",
  pages="113--117",
  publisher="International Speech Communication Association",
  address="Vallaloid",
  doi="10.21437/IberSPEECH.2021-24",
  url="https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/iberspeech_2021/kocour21_iberspeech.html"
}

Documents

kocour21_iberspeech.pdf