Multimodal grounding for sequence-to-sequence speech recognition
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Author(s)
Caglayan, Ozan
Sanabria, Ramon
Palaskar, Shruti
Barrault, Loic
Metze, Florian
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Humans are capable of processing speech by making use of multiple sensory modalities. For example, the environment where a conversation takes place generally provides semantic and/or acoustic context that helps us to resolve ambiguities or to recall named entities. Motivated by this, there have been many works studying the integration of visual information into the speech recognition pipeline. Specifically, in our previous work, we propose a multistep visual adaptive training approach which improves the accuracy of an audio-based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system. This approach, however, is not end-to-end as it requires fine-tuning the whole model with an adaptation layer. In this paper, we propose novel end-to-end multimodal ASR systems and compare them to the adaptive approach by using a range of visual representations obtained from state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks. We show that adaptive training is effective for S2S models leading to an absolute improvement of 1.4% in word error rate. As for the end-to-end systems, although they perform better than baseline, the improvements are slightly less than adaptive training, 0.8 absolute WER reduction in single-best models. Using ensemble decoding, end-to-end models reach a WER of 15% which is the lowest score among all systems.
Date Issued
2019-04-17
Date Acceptance
2019-04-01
Citation
ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2019, pp.8648-8652
ISBN
9781479981328
ISSN
1520-6149
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
8648
End Page
8652
Journal / Book Title
ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Copyright Statement
© 2019 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Source
2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Acoustics
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Engineering
Multimodal ASR
Deep learning
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2019-05-12
Finish Date
2019-05-17
Coverage Spatial
Brighton, UK
Date Publish Online
2019-04-17