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Transformer with Bidirectional Decoder for Speech Recognition (2008.04481v1)

Published 11 Aug 2020 in eess.AS, cs.CL, cs.LG, and cs.SD

Abstract: Attention-based models have made tremendous progress on end-to-end automatic speech recognition(ASR) recently. However, the conventional transformer-based approaches usually generate the sequence results token by token from left to right, leaving the right-to-left contexts unexploited. In this work, we introduce a bidirectional speech transformer to utilize the different directional contexts simultaneously. Specifically, the outputs of our proposed transformer include a left-to-right target, and a right-to-left target. In inference stage, we use the introduced bidirectional beam search method, which can not only generate left-to-right candidates but also generate right-to-left candidates, and determine the best hypothesis by the score. To demonstrate our proposed speech transformer with a bidirectional decoder(STBD), we conduct extensive experiments on the AISHELL-1 dataset. The results of experiments show that STBD achieves a 3.6\% relative CER reduction(CERR) over the unidirectional speech transformer baseline. Besides, the strongest model in this paper called STBD-Big can achieve 6.64\% CER on the test set, without LLM rescoring and any extra data augmentation strategies.

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