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Personalizing ASR for Dysarthric and Accented Speech with Limited Data

07/31/2019
by   Joel Shor, et al.
Google
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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have dramatically improved over the last few years. ASR systems are most often trained from 'typical' speech, which means that underrepresented groups don't experience the same level of improvement. In this paper, we present and evaluate finetuning techniques to improve ASR for users with non-standard speech. We focus on two types of non-standard speech: speech from people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and accented speech. We train personalized models that achieve 62 35 ALS speakers, on a test set of message bank phrases, down to 10 dysarthria and 20 improvement comes from only 5 minutes of training data. Finetuning a particular subset of layers (with many fewer parameters) often gives better results than finetuning the entire model. This is the first step towards building state of the art ASR models for dysarthric speech.

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