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20202024
most citedAdapting Long Context NLM for ASR Rescoring in Conversational Agents

11 citations · 21 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Towards Effective GenAI Multi-Agent Collaboration: Design and Evaluation for Enterprise Applications

Raphael Shu, Nilaksh Das, Michelle Yuan +2

AI agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in problem solving. Through combining many intelligent agents, multi-agent collaboration has emerge…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

SpeechVerse: A Large-scale Generalizable Audio Language Model

Nilaksh Das, Saket Dingliwal, Srikanth Ronanki +14

Large language models (LLMs) have shown incredible proficiency in performing tasks that require semantic understanding of natural language instructions. Recently, many works have f…

cs.SD2023

Masked Audio Text Encoders are Effective Multi-Modal Rescorers

Jinglun Cai, Monica Sunkara, Xilai Li +3

Masked Language Models (MLMs) have proven to be effective for second-pass rescoring in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. In this work, we propose Masked Audio Text Encode…

eess.AS2023

Mask The Bias: Improving Domain-Adaptive Generalization of CTC-based ASR with Internal Language Model Estimation

Nilaksh Das, Monica Sunkara, Sravan Bodapati +4

End-to-end ASR models trained on large amount of data tend to be implicitly biased towards language semantics of the training data. Internal language model estimation (ILME) has be…

cs.CL2022

Towards Personalization of CTC Speech Recognition Models with Contextual Adapters and Adaptive Boosting

Saket Dingliwal, Monica Sunkara, Sravan Bodapati +3

End-to-end speech recognition models trained using joint Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC)-Attention loss have gained popularity recently. In these models, a non-autoregr…

cs.CL2022

Adaptation Approaches for Nearest Neighbor Language Models

Rishabh Bhardwaj, George Polovets, Monica Sunkara

Semi-parametric Nearest Neighbor Language Models (NN-LMs) have produced impressive gains over purely parametric LMs, by leveraging large-scale neighborhood retrieval over extern…

eess.AS2021

Remember the context! ASR slot error correction through memorization

Dhanush Bekal, Ashish Shenoy, Monica Sunkara +2

Accurate recognition of slot values such as domain specific words or named entities by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems forms the core of the Goal-oriented Dialogue Syste…

cs.CL2021★ 11 cited

Adapting Long Context NLM for ASR Rescoring in Conversational Agents

Ashish Shenoy, Sravan Bodapati, Monica Sunkara +2

Neural Language Models (NLM), when trained and evaluated with context spanning multiple utterances, have been shown to consistently outperform both conventional n-gram language mod…

eess.AS2021★ 2 cited

Best of Both Worlds: Robust Accented Speech Recognition with Adversarial Transfer Learning

Nilaksh Das, Sravan Bodapati, Monica Sunkara +2

Training deep neural networks for automatic speech recognition (ASR) requires large amounts of transcribed speech. This becomes a bottleneck for training robust models for accented…

cs.CL2021

Neural Inverse Text Normalization

Monica Sunkara, Chaitanya Shivade, Sravan Bodapati +1

While there have been several contributions exploring state of the art techniques for text normalization, the problem of inverse text normalization (ITN) remains relatively unexplo…

eess.AS2020

Multimodal Semi-supervised Learning Framework for Punctuation Prediction in Conversational Speech

Monica Sunkara, Srikanth Ronanki, Dhanush Bekal +2

In this work, we explore a multimodal semi-supervised learning approach for punctuation prediction by learning representations from large amounts of unlabelled audio and text data.…

cs.CL2020

Robust Prediction of Punctuation and Truecasing for Medical ASR

Monica Sunkara, Srikanth Ronanki, Kalpit Dixit +2

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in the medical domain that focus on transcribing clinical dictations and doctor-patient conversations often pose many challenges due to t…