Handling Numeric Expressions in Automatic Speech Recognition

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Auteurs principaux: Huber, Christian, Waibel, Alexander
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author Huber, Christian
Waibel, Alexander
author_facet Huber, Christian
Waibel, Alexander
contents This paper addresses the problem of correctly formatting numeric expressions in automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts. This is challenging since the expected transcript format depends on the context, e.g., 1945 (year) vs. 19:45 (timestamp). We compare cascaded and end-to-end approaches to recognize and format numeric expressions such as years, timestamps, currency amounts, and quantities. For the end-to-end approach, we employed a data generation strategy using a large language model (LLM) together with a text to speech (TTS) model to generate adaptation data. The results on our test data set show that while approaches based on LLMs perform well in recognizing formatted numeric expressions, adapted end-to-end models offer competitive performance with the advantage of lower latency and inference cost.
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spellingShingle Handling Numeric Expressions in Automatic Speech Recognition
Huber, Christian
Waibel, Alexander
Audio and Speech Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
This paper addresses the problem of correctly formatting numeric expressions in automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts. This is challenging since the expected transcript format depends on the context, e.g., 1945 (year) vs. 19:45 (timestamp). We compare cascaded and end-to-end approaches to recognize and format numeric expressions such as years, timestamps, currency amounts, and quantities. For the end-to-end approach, we employed a data generation strategy using a large language model (LLM) together with a text to speech (TTS) model to generate adaptation data. The results on our test data set show that while approaches based on LLMs perform well in recognizing formatted numeric expressions, adapted end-to-end models offer competitive performance with the advantage of lower latency and inference cost.
title Handling Numeric Expressions in Automatic Speech Recognition
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00004