Contextual Biasing Methods for Improving Rare Word Detection in Automatic Speech Recognition

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447465" target="_blank" >10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447465</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Contextual Biasing Methods for Improving Rare Word Detection in Automatic Speech Recognition
Original language description
In specialized domains like Air Traffic Control (ATC), a notable challenge in porting a deployed Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system from one airport to another is the alteration in the set of crucial words that must be ac- curately detected in the new environment. Typically, such words have limited occurrences in training data, making it impractical to retrain the ASR system. This paper explores innovative word-boosting techniques to improve the detec- tion rate of such rare words in the ASR hypotheses for the ATC domain. Two acoustic models are investigated: a hybrid CNN-TDNNF model trained from scratch and a pre-trained wav2vec2-based XLSR model fine-tuned on a common ATC dataset. The word boosting is done in three ways. First, an out-of-vocabulary word addition method is explored. Second, G-boosting is explored, which amends the language model before building the decoding graph. Third, the boosting is performed on the fly during decoding using lattice re-scoring. The results indicate that the G-boosting method performs best and provides an approximately 30-43% relative improvement in recall of the boosted words. Moreover, a relative improve- ment of up to 48% is obtained upon combining G-boosting and lattice-rescoring
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Czech description
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Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISBN
979-8-3503-4485-1
ISSN
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Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
12652-12656
Publisher name
IEEE Signal Processing Society
Place of publication
Seoul
Event location
Seoul
Event date
Apr 14, 2024
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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