Title
A Fully Differentiable Beam Search Decoder.
Abstract
We introduce a new beam search decoder that is fully differentiable, making it possible to optimize at training time through the inference procedure. Our decoder allows us to combine models which operate at different granularities (e.g. acoustic and language models). It can be used when target sequences are not aligned to input sequences by considering all possible alignments between the two. We demonstrate our approach scales by applying it to speech recognition, jointly training acoustic and word-level language models. The system is end-to-end, with gradients flowing through the whole architecture from the word-level transcriptions. Recent research efforts have shown that deep neural networks with attention-based mechanisms are powerful enough to successfully train an acoustic model from the final transcription, while implicitly learning a language model. Instead, we show that it is possible to discriminatively train an acoustic model jointly with an explicit and possibly pre-trained language model.
Year
Venue
Field
2019
International Conference on Machine Learning
Transcription (linguistics),Computer science,Inference,Beam search,Speech recognition,Differentiable function,Artificial intelligence,Language model,Deep neural networks,Machine learning,Acoustic model
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1902.06022
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
19
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ronan Collobert14002308.61
Awni Y. Hannun251727.54
Gabriel Synnaeve3277.73