Improving Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-Native English with Transfer Learning and Language Model Decoding

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العنوان: Improving Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-Native English with Transfer Learning and Language Model Decoding
المؤلفون: Sullivan, Peter, Shibano, Toshiko, Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Sound, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing
الوصف: ASR systems designed for native English (L1) usually underperform on non-native English (L2). To address this performance gap, \textbf{(i)} we extend our previous work to investigate fine-tuning of a pre-trained wav2vec 2.0 model \cite{baevski2020wav2vec,xu2021self} under a rich set of L1 and L2 training conditions. We further \textbf{(ii)} incorporate language model decoding in the ASR system, along with the fine-tuning method. Quantifying gains acquired from each of these two approaches separately and an error analysis allows us to identify different sources of improvement within our models. We find that while the large self-trained wav2vec 2.0 may be internalizing sufficient decoding knowledge for clean L1 speech \cite{xu2021self}, this does not hold for L2 speech and accounts for the utility of employing language model decoding on L2 data.
Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2110.00678
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05209
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2202.05209
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv