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Hauptverfasser: Li, Yuang, Zhang, Min, Su, Chang, Li, Yinglu, Qiao, Xiaosong, Ren, Mengxin, Ma, Miaomiao, Wei, Daimeng, Tao, Shimin, Yang, Hao
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2023
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09552
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  • The recognition of rare named entities, such as personal names and terminologies, is challenging for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, especially when they are not frequently observed in the training data. In this paper, we introduce keyword spotting enhanced Whisper (KWS-Whisper), a novel ASR system that leverages the Whisper model and performs open-vocabulary keyword spotting (OV-KWS) on the hidden states of the Whisper encoder to recognize user-defined named entities. These entities serve as prompts for the Whisper decoder. To optimize the model, we propose a multitask training approach that learns OV-KWS and contextual-ASR tasks. We evaluate our approach on Chinese Aishell hot word subsets and two internal code-switching test sets and show that it significantly improves the entity recall compared to the original Whisper model. Moreover, we demonstrate that the OV-KWS can be a plug-and-play module to enhance the ASR error correction methods and frozen Whisper models.