解决语音识别中罕见词识别差的问题,提升长尾分布下的模型表现。
An Effective Context-Balanced Adaptation Approach for Long-Tailed Speech Recognition
- 用全部训练词作为上下文列表,结合平衡学习目标优化模型。
- 字符错误率降低1.21%,零样本词错误率下降9.44%。
- 适合长尾分布语音识别场景,尤其关注罕见词识别的开发者。
端到端(E2E)自动语音识别(ASR)模型已成为各类商业应用的标准。然而,在真实场景中,词汇分布的长尾特性常导致模型对常见词表现良好,却难以识别罕见词。最近提出的上下文适配器(CA)通过引入外部上下文词表知识来改进罕见词识别,但仍存在两个关键的数据不平衡问题:其一,训练时使用低频词作为上下文词,由于这些词在语句中极少出现,模型易过度依赖无上下文标记;其二,上下文词表本身也存在长尾分布,导致模型对低频上下文词表现不佳。为此,我们深入研究了不同频率分布的上下文词表对模型性能的影响,并扩展了CA,提出一种简单而有效的上下文平衡学习目标。在AISHELL-1基准数据集上的一系列实验表明,使用训练语料中所有词汇作为上下文词表并配合该平衡目标,能取得最佳效果,字符错误率(CER)最高降低1.21%,零样本词错误率更是大幅下降9.44%。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) models have become standard practice for various commercial applications. However, in real-world scenarios, the long-tailed nature of word distribution often leads E2E ASR models to perform well on common words but fall short in recognizing uncommon ones. Recently, the notion of a contextual adapter (CA) was proposed to infuse external knowledge represented by a context word list into E2E ASR models. Although CA can improve recognition performance on rare words, two crucial data imbalance problems remain. First, when using low-frequency words as context words during training, since these words rarely occur in the utterance, CA becomes prone to overfit on attending to the <no-context> token due to higher-frequency words not being present in the context list. Second, the long-tailed distribution within the context list itself still causes the model to perform poorly on low-frequency context words. In light of this, we explore in-depth the impact of altering the context list to have words with different frequency distributions on model performance, and meanwhile extend CA with a simple yet effective context-balanced learning objective. A series of experiments conducted on the AISHELL-1 benchmark dataset suggests that using all vocabulary words from the training corpus as the context list and pairing them with our balanced objective yields the best performance, demonstrating a significant reduction in character error rate (CER) by up to 1.21% and a more pronounced 9.44% reduction in the error rate of zero-shot words.
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