Year: 2023
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: It has been shown that the intelligibility of noisy speech can be improved by speech enhancement algorithms. However, speech enhancement has not been established as an effective frontend for robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) in noisy conditions compared to an ASR model trained on noisy speech directly. The divide between speech enhancement and ASR impedes the progress of robust ASR systems especially as speech enhancement has made big strides in recent years. In this work, we focus on eliminating this divide with an ARN (attentive recurrent network) based time-domain enhancement model. The proposed system fully decouples speech enhancement and an acoustic model trained only on clean speech. Results on the CHiME-2 corpus show that ARN enhanced speech translates to improved ASR results. The proposed system achieves 6.28% average word error rate, outperforming the previous best by 19.3% relatively.
Source: Interspeech (USB)
Authors: Yufeng Yang, Ashutosh Pandey, DeLiang Wang
Institution: The Ohio State University
Language: English
Topic: Speech and Audio Processing
Subfield: Signal Processing
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4385823058