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Main Authors: Khassanov, Yerbolat, Chen, Zhipeng, Chen, Tianfeng, Chong, Tze Yuang, Li, Wei, Zhang, Jun, Lu, Lu, Wang, Yuxuan
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07842
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author Khassanov, Yerbolat
Chen, Zhipeng
Chen, Tianfeng
Chong, Tze Yuang
Li, Wei
Zhang, Jun
Lu, Lu
Wang, Yuxuan
author_facet Khassanov, Yerbolat
Chen, Zhipeng
Chen, Tianfeng
Chong, Tze Yuang
Li, Wei
Zhang, Jun
Lu, Lu
Wang, Yuxuan
contents This paper addresses challenges in integrating new languages into a pre-trained multilingual automatic speech recognition (mASR) system, particularly in scenarios where training data for existing languages is limited or unavailable. The proposed method employs a dual-pipeline with low-rank adaptation (LoRA). It maintains two data flow pipelines-one for existing languages and another for new languages. The primary pipeline follows the standard flow through the pre-trained parameters of mASR, while the secondary pipeline additionally utilizes language-specific parameters represented by LoRA and a separate output decoder module. Importantly, the proposed approach minimizes the performance degradation of existing languages and enables a language-agnostic operation mode, facilitated by a decoder selection strategy. We validate the effectiveness of the proposed method by extending the pre-trained Whisper model to 19 new languages from the FLEURS dataset
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spellingShingle Dual-Pipeline with Low-Rank Adaptation for New Language Integration in Multilingual ASR
Khassanov, Yerbolat
Chen, Zhipeng
Chen, Tianfeng
Chong, Tze Yuang
Li, Wei
Zhang, Jun
Lu, Lu
Wang, Yuxuan
Audio and Speech Processing
Computation and Language
This paper addresses challenges in integrating new languages into a pre-trained multilingual automatic speech recognition (mASR) system, particularly in scenarios where training data for existing languages is limited or unavailable. The proposed method employs a dual-pipeline with low-rank adaptation (LoRA). It maintains two data flow pipelines-one for existing languages and another for new languages. The primary pipeline follows the standard flow through the pre-trained parameters of mASR, while the secondary pipeline additionally utilizes language-specific parameters represented by LoRA and a separate output decoder module. Importantly, the proposed approach minimizes the performance degradation of existing languages and enables a language-agnostic operation mode, facilitated by a decoder selection strategy. We validate the effectiveness of the proposed method by extending the pre-trained Whisper model to 19 new languages from the FLEURS dataset
title Dual-Pipeline with Low-Rank Adaptation for New Language Integration in Multilingual ASR
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07842