Title
Gated Recurrent Fusion With Joint Training Framework for Robust End-to-End Speech Recognition
Abstract
AbstractThe joint training framework for speech enhancement and recognition methods have obtained quite good performances for robust end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, these methods only utilize the enhanced feature as the input of the speech recognition component, which are affected by the speech distortion problem. In order to address this problem, this paper proposes a gated recurrent fusion (GRF) method with joint training framework for robust end-to-end ASR. The GRF algorithm is used to dynamically combine the noisy and enhanced features. Therefore, the GRF can not only remove the noise signals from the enhanced features, but also learn the raw fine structures from the noisy features so that it can alleviate the speech distortion. The proposed method consists of speech enhancement, GRF and speech recognition. Firstly, the mask based speech enhancement network is applied to enhance the input speech. Secondly, the GRF is applied to address the speech distortion problem. Thirdly, to improve the performance of ASR, the state-of-the-art speech transformer algorithm is used as the speech recognition component. Finally, the joint training framework is utilized to optimize these three components, simultaneously. Our experiments are conducted on an open-source Mandarin speech corpus called AISHELL-1. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves the relative character error rate (CER) reduction of 10.04% over the conventional joint enhancement and transformer method only using the enhanced features. Especially for the low signal-to-noise ratio (0 dB), our proposed method can achieves better performances with 12.67% CER reduction, which suggests the potential of our proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TASLP.2020.3039600
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Speech enhancement, Speech recognition, Training, Noise measurement, Logic gates, Acoustic distortion, Task analysis, Gated recurrent fusion, robust end-to-end speech recognition, speech distortion, speech enhancement, speech transformer
Journal
29
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2329-9290
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
14
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cunhang Fan101.35
Jiangyan Yi21917.99
Jianhua Tao3848138.00
Zhengkun Tian435.79
Bin Liu519135.02
Zhengqi Wen68624.41