• Speech Recognition Papers
  • Streaming ASR
    • RNA based
    • RNN-T based
    • Attention based
    • Unified Streaming/Non-streaming models
  • Non-autoregressive (NAR) ASR
  • ASR Rescoring / Spelling Correction (2-pass decoding)
  • On-device ASR
  • Noisy Student Training(Self Training)
  • Self Supervised Learning (SSL)
    • APC(Autoregressive Predictive Coding)
    • CPC(Contrastive Predictive Coding)

Speech Recognition Papers

List of hot directions in industrial speech recognition, i.e., Streaming ASR (RNA-based || RNN-T based || Attention based || unified streaming/non-streaming) / Non-autoregressive ASR ...

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Streaming ASR

RNA based

• Standard RNA: Recurrent Neural Aligner: An Encoder-Decoder Neural Network Model for Sequence to Sequence Mapping (Interspeech 2017)
• Extended RNA: Extending Recurrent Neural Aligner for Streaming End-to-End Speech Recognition in Mandarin (Interspeech 2018)
• Transformer equipped RNA: Self-attention Aligner: A Latency-control End-to-end Model for ASR Using Self-attention Network and Chunk-hopping (ICASSP 2019)
• CIF: CIF: Continuous Integrate-And-Fire for End-To-End Speech Recognition (ICASSP 2020)
• CIF: A Comparison of Label-Synchronous and Frame-Synchronous End-to-End Models for Speech Recognition (Interspeech 2020)

RNN-T based

• Standard RNN-T: Streaming E2E Speech Recognition For Mobile Devices (ICASSP 2019)
• Latency Controlled RNN-T: RNN-T For Latency Controlled ASR With Improved Beam Search (arXiv 2019)
• Transformer equipped RNN-T: Self-Attention Transducers for End-to-End Speech Recognition (Interspeech 2019)
• Transformer equipped RNN-T: Transformer Transducer: A Streamable Speech Recognition Model With Transformer Encoders And RNN-T Loss (ICASSP 2020)
• Transformer equipped RNN-T: A Streaming On-Device End-to-End Model Surpassing Server-Side Conventional Model Quality and Latency (ICASSP 2020)
• Tricks for RNN-T Training: Towards Fast And Accurate Streaming E2E ASR (ICASSP 2020)
• Knowledge Distillation for RNN-T: Knowledge Distillation from Offline to Streaming RNN Transducer for End-to-end Speech Recognition (Interspeech 2020)
• Transfer Learning for RNN-T: Transfer Learning Approaches for Streaming End-to-End Speech Recognition System (Interspeech 2020)
• Exploration on RNN-T: Analyzing the Quality and Stability of a Streaming End-to-End On-Device Speech Recognizer (Interspeech 2020)
• Sequence-level Emission Regularization for RNN-T: FastEmit: Low-latency Streaming ASR with Sequence-level Emission Regularization (arXiv 2020, submitted to ICASSP 2021)
• Model Distillation for RNN-T: Improving Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition With Non-Streaming Model Distillation On Unsupervised Data (arXiv 2020, submitted to ICASSP 2021)
• LM Fusion for RNN-T: Improved Neural Language Model Fusion for Streaming Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (arXiv 2020, submitted to ICASSP 2021)
• Normalized jointer network: Improving RNN transducer with normalized jointer network (arXiv 2020)
• Benchmark on RNN-T CTC LF-MMI: Benchmarking LF-MMI, CTC and RNN-T Criteria for Streaming ASR (SLT 2021)
• Alignment Restricted RNN-T: Alignment Restricted Streaming Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (SLT 2021)
• Conformer equipped RNN-T (with Cascaded Encoder and 2nd-pass beam search): A Better and Faster End-to-End Model for Streaming ASR (arXiv 2020, submitted to ICASSP 2021)
• Multi-Speaker RNN-T: Streaming end-to-end multi-talker speech recognition

Attention based

• Montonic Attention: Montonic Chunkwise Attention (ICLR 2018)
• Enhanced Montonic Attention: Enhancing Monotonic Multihead Attention for Streaming ASR (Interspeech 2020)
• Minimum Latency Training based on Montomic Attention: Minimum Latency Training Strategies For Streaming seq-to-seq ASR (ICASSP 2020)
• Triggered Attention: Triggered Attention for End-to-End Speech Recognition (ICASSP 2019)
• Triggered Attention for Transformer: Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition With The Transformer Model (ICASSP 2020)
• Block-synchronous: Streaming Transformer ASR with Blockwise Synchronous Inference (ASRU 2019)
• Block-synchronous with chunk reuse: Transformer Online CTC/Attention E2E Speech Recognition Architecture (ICASSP 2020)
• Block-synchronous with RNN-T like decoding rule: Synchronous Transformers For E2E Speech Recognition (ICASSP 2020)
• Scout-synchronous: Low Latency End-to-End Streaming Speech Recognition with a Scout Network (Interspeech 2020)
• CTC-synchronous: CTC-synchronous Training for Monotonic Attention Model (Interspeech 2020)
• Memory Augmented Attention: Streaming Transformer-based Acoustic Models Using Self-attention with Augmented Memory (Interspeech 2020)
• Memory Augmented Attention: Streaming Chunk-Aware Multihead Attention for Online End-to-End Speech Recognition (Interspeech 2020)
• Optimized Beam Search: High Performance Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Streaming Speech Recognition (Interspeech 2020)
• Memory Augmented Attention: Emformer: Efficient Memory Transformer Based Acoustic Model For Low Latency Streaming Speech Recognition (arXiv 2020, submitted to ICASSP 2021)

Unified Streaming/Non-streaming models

• Transformer Transducer: One Model Unifying Streaming And Non-Streaming Speech Recognition (arXiv 2020)
• Universal ASR: Unify And Improve Streaming ASR With Full-Context Modeling (ICLR 2021 under double-blind review)
• Cascaded encoders for unifying streaming and non-streaming ASR (arXiv 2020)
• Asynchronous Revision for non-streaming ASR: Dynamic latency speech recognition with asynchronous revision (arXiv 2020, submitted to ICASSP 2021)
• 2-pass unifying (1st Streaming CTC, 2nd Attention Rescore): Unified Streaming and Non-streaming Two-pass End-to-end Model for Speech Recognition
• 2-pass unifying (1st Streaming CTC, 2nd Attention Rescore): One In A Hundred: Select The Best Predicted Sequence from Numerous Candidates for Streaming Speech Recognition (arXiv 2020)

Non-autoregressive (NAR) ASR

• MASK-Predict: Listen and Fill in the Missing Letters: Non-Autoregressive Transformer for Speech Recognition (arXiv 2019)
• Imputer: Imputer: Sequence modelling via imputation and dynamic programming (arXiv 2020)
• Insertion-based: Insertion-Based Modeling for End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition (arXiv 2020)
• MASK-CTC: Mask CTC: Non-Autoregressive End-to-End ASR with CTC and Mask Predict (Interspeech 2020)
• Spike Triggered: Spike-Triggered Non-Autoregressive Transformer for End-to-End Speech Recognition (Interspeech 2020)
• Similar to MASK-Predict: Listen Attentively, and Spell Once: Whole Sentence Generation via a Non-Autoregressive Architecture for Low-Latency Speech Recognition (Interspeech 2020)
• Improved MASK-CTC: Improved Mask-CTC for Non-Autoregressive End-to-End ASR (arXiv 2020, submitted to ICASSP 2021)
• Refine CTC Alignments over Latent Space: Align-Refine: Non-Autoregressive Speech Recognition via Iterative Realignment (arXiv 2020)
• Also Refine CTC Alignments over Latent Space: CASS-NAT: CTC Alignment-based Single Step Non-autoregressive Transformer for Speech Recognition (arXiv 2020, submitted to ICASSP 2021)
• Refine CTC Alignments over Output Space: Non-Autoregressive Transformer ASR with CTC-Enhanced Decoder Input (arXiv 2020, submitted to ICASSP 2021)

ASR Rescoring / Spelling Correction (2-pass decoding)

• Review: Automatic Speech Recognition Errors Detection and Correction: A Review (N/A)
• LAS based: A Spelling Correction Model For E2E Speech Recognition (ICASSP 2019)
• Transformer based: An Empirical Study Of Efficient ASR Rescoring With Transformers (arXiv 2019)
• Transformer based: Automatic Spelling Correction with Transformer for CTC-based End-to-End Speech Recognition (Interspeech 2019)
• Transformer based: Correction of Automatic Speech Recognition with Transformer Sequence-To-Sequence Model (ICASSP 2020)
• BERT based: Effective Sentence Scoring Method Using BERT for Speech Recognition (ACML 2019)
• BERT based: Spelling Error Correction with Soft-Masked BERT (ACL 2020)
• Parallel Rescoring: Parallel Rescoring with Transformer for Streaming On-Device Speech Recognition (Interspeech 2020)

On-device ASR

• Review: A review of on-device fully neural end-to-end automatic speech recognition algorithms (arXiv 2020)
• Lightweight Low-Rank transformer: Lightweight and Efficient End-to-End Speech Recognition Using Low-Rank Transformer (ICASSP 2020)
• Attention replacement: How Much Self-Attention Do We Need ƒ Trading Attention for Feed-Forward Layers (ICASSP 2020)
• Lightweight transducer with WFST based decoding: Tiny Transducer: A Highly-efficient Speech Recognition Model on Edge Devices (ICASSP 2021)
• Cascade transducer: Cascade RNN-Transducer: Syllable Based Streaming On-device Mandarin Speech Recognition with a Syllable-to-Character Converter (SLT 2021)

Noisy Student Training(Self Training)

• Self training with filtering and ensembles: Self-training for end-to-end speech recognition (ICASSP 2020)
• Improved Noisy Student Training by gradational filtering: Improved Noisy Student Training for Automatic Speech Recognition (Interspeech 2020)

Self Supervised Learning(SSL)

APC(Autoregressive Predictive Coding)

• An Unsupervised Autoregressive Model for Speech Representation Learning (Interspeech 2019)
• Generative Pre-Training for Speech with Autoregressive Predictive Coding (ICASSP 2020)

CPC(Contrastive Predictive Coding)

• wav2vec: Unsupervised Pre-training for Speech Recognition (Schneider et al., 2019)
• vq-wav2vec: Self-Supervised Learning of Discrete Speech Representations (Baevski et al., 2019)
• wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations (Baevski et al., 2020)