Title
End-To-End Language Recognition Using Attention Based Hierarchical Gated Recurrent Unit Models
Abstract
The task of automatic language identification ( LID) involving multiple dialects of the same language family on short speech recordings is a challenging problem. This can be further complicated for short-duration audio snippets in the presence of noise sources. In these scenarios, the identity of the language/dialect may be reliably present only in parts of the speech embedded in the temporal sequence. The conventional approaches to LID ( and for speaker recognition) ignore the sequence information by extracting long-term statistical summary of the recording assuming an independence of the feature frames. In this paper, we propose to develop an end-to-end neural network framework utilizing short-sequence information in language recognition. A hierarchical gated recurrent unit ( HGRU) model with attention module is proposed for incorporating relevance in language recognition, where parts of speech data are weighted more based on their relevance for the language recognition task. Experiments are performed using the language recognition task in NIST LRE 2017 Challenge using clean, noisy and multi-speaker speech data. In these experiments, the proposed approach yields significant improvements over the conventional i-vector based language recognition approaches as well as previously proposed approach to language recognition using recurrent networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/icassp.2019.8683895
2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
End to end language identification, hierarchical GRU, attention
Automatic language identification,Pattern recognition,Computer science,End-to-end principle,Speech recognition,Part of speech,Speaker recognition,Language recognition,NIST,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Language family
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1520-6149
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bharat Padi100.34
Anand Mohan21898.76
Sriram Ganapathy325239.62