2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

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Paper Detail

Paper IDSPE-21.5
Paper Title LATTICE-FREE MMI ADAPTATION OF SELF-SUPERVISED PRETRAINED ACOUSTIC MODELS
Authors Apoorv Vyas, Idiap Research Institute and EPFL, Switzerland; Srikanth Madikeri, Hervé Bourlard, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
SessionSPE-21: Speech Recognition 7: Training Methods for End-to-End Modeling
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Wednesday, 09 June, 15:30 - 16:15
Presentation Time:Wednesday, 09 June, 15:30 - 16:15
Presentation Poster
Topic Speech Processing: [SPE-LVCR] Large Vocabulary Continuous Recognition/Search
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Abstract In this work, we propose lattice-free MMI (LFMMI) for supervised adaptation of self-supervised pretrained acoustic model. We pretrain a Transformer model on thousand hours of untranscribed Librispeech data followed by supervised adaptation with LFMMI on three different datasets. Our results show that fine-tuning with LFMMI, we consistently obtain relative WER improvements of 10% and 35.3% on the clean and other test sets of Librispeech (100h), 10.8% on Switchboard (300h), and 4.3% on Swahili (38h) and 4.4% on Tagalog (84h) compared to the baseline trained only with supervised data.