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Subword Regularization and Beam Search Decoding for End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition
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- Jennifer Drexler
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- 14 May 2019 - 9:04am
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- Poster
- Document Year:
- 2019
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- Presenters:
- Jennifer Drexler
- Paper Code:
- SLP-P7.5
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In this paper, we experiment with the recently introduced subword regularization technique \cite{kudo2018subword} in the context of end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR). We present results from both attention-based and CTC-based ASR systems on two common benchmark datasets, the 80 hour Wall Street Journal corpus and 1,000 hour Librispeech corpus. We also introduce a novel subword beam search decoding algorithm that significantly improves the final performance of the CTC-based systems. Overall, we find that subword regularization improves the performance of both types of ASR systems, with the regularized attention-based model performing best overall.