Exploration of End-to-End ASR for OpenSTT – Russian Open Speech-to-Text Dataset

06/15/2020

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by   Andrei Andrusenko, et al.

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This paper presents an exploration of end-to-end automatic speech recognition systems (ASR) for the largest open-source Russian language data set – OpenSTT. We evaluate different existing end-to-end approaches such as joint CTC/Attention, RNN-Transducer, and Transformer. All of them are compared with the strong hybrid ASR system based on LF-MMI TDNN-F acoustic model. For the three available validation sets (phone calls, YouTube, and books), our best end-to-end model achieves word error rate (WER) of 34.8 respectively. Under the same conditions, the hybridASR system demonstrates 33.5