Title
ASR-Generated Text for Language Model Pre-training Applied to Speech Tasks
Abstract
We aim at improving spoken language modeling (LM) using very large amount of automatically transcribed speech. We leverage the INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) collection and obtain 19GB of text after applying ASR on 350,000 hours of diverse TV shows. From this, spoken language models are trained either by fine-tuning an existing LM (FlauBERT) or through training a LM from scratch. New models (FlauBERT-Oral) are shared with the community and evaluated for 3 downstream tasks: spoken language understanding, classification of TV shows and speech syntactic parsing. Results show that FlauBERT-Oral can be beneficial compared to its initial FlauBERT version demonstrating that, despite its inherent noisy nature, ASR-generated text can be used to build spoken language models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.21437/INTERSPEECH.2022-352
Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH)
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Valentin Pelloin100.34
Franck Dary201.01
Nicolas Herve300.34
Benoit Favre401.01
Nathalie Camelin500.34
Antoine Laurent601.35
Laurent Besacier701.69