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Hauptverfasser: Wu, Yihan, Lu, Yichen, Peng, Yifan, Wang, Xihua, Song, Ruihua, Watanabe, Shinji
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Wu, Yihan
Lu, Yichen
Peng, Yifan
Wang, Xihua
Song, Ruihua
Watanabe, Shinji
author_facet Wu, Yihan
Lu, Yichen
Peng, Yifan
Wang, Xihua
Song, Ruihua
Watanabe, Shinji
contents Audiovisual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR) aims to improve speech recognition accuracy by leveraging visual signals. It is particularly challenging in unconstrained real-world scenarios across various domains due to noisy acoustic environments, spontaneous speech, and the uncertain use of visual information. Most previous works fine-tune audio-only ASR models on audiovisual datasets, optimizing them for conventional ASR objectives. However, they often neglect visual features and common errors in unconstrained video scenarios. In this paper, we propose using a preference optimization strategy to improve speech recognition accuracy for real-world videos. First, we create preference data via simulating common errors that occurred in AV-ASR from two focals: manipulating the audio or vision input and rewriting the output transcript. Second, we propose BPO-AVASR, a Bifocal Preference Optimization method to improve AV-ASR models by leveraging both input-side and output-side preference. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach significantly improves speech recognition accuracy across various domains, outperforming previous state-of-the-art models on real-world video speech recognition.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Audiovisual Speech Recognition through Bifocal Preference Optimization
Wu, Yihan
Lu, Yichen
Peng, Yifan
Wang, Xihua
Song, Ruihua
Watanabe, Shinji
Audio and Speech Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Audiovisual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR) aims to improve speech recognition accuracy by leveraging visual signals. It is particularly challenging in unconstrained real-world scenarios across various domains due to noisy acoustic environments, spontaneous speech, and the uncertain use of visual information. Most previous works fine-tune audio-only ASR models on audiovisual datasets, optimizing them for conventional ASR objectives. However, they often neglect visual features and common errors in unconstrained video scenarios. In this paper, we propose using a preference optimization strategy to improve speech recognition accuracy for real-world videos. First, we create preference data via simulating common errors that occurred in AV-ASR from two focals: manipulating the audio or vision input and rewriting the output transcript. Second, we propose BPO-AVASR, a Bifocal Preference Optimization method to improve AV-ASR models by leveraging both input-side and output-side preference. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach significantly improves speech recognition accuracy across various domains, outperforming previous state-of-the-art models on real-world video speech recognition.
title Enhancing Audiovisual Speech Recognition through Bifocal Preference Optimization
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19005