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20202024
most citedRecent Developments on ESPnet Toolkit Boosted by Conformer

40 citations · 82 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

eess.AS2024

End-to-End Speech Recognition with Pre-trained Masked Language Model

Yosuke Higuchi, Tetsuji Ogawa, Tetsunori Kobayashi +1

We present a novel approach to end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) that utilizes pre-trained masked language models (LMs) to facilitate the extraction of linguistic infor…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

Predictive Speech Recognition and End-of-Utterance Detection Towards Spoken Dialog Systems

Oswald Zink, Yosuke Higuchi, Carlos Mullov +2

Effective spoken dialog systems should facilitate natural interactions with quick and rhythmic timing, mirroring human communication patterns. To reduce response times, previous ef…

eess.AS2023

Segment-Level Vectorized Beam Search Based on Partially Autoregressive Inference

Masao Someki, Nicholas Eng, Yosuke Higuchi +1

Attention-based encoder-decoder models with autoregressive (AR) decoding have proven to be the dominant approach for automatic speech recognition (ASR) due to their superior accura…

cs.SD2023

Mask-CTC-based Encoder Pre-training for Streaming End-to-End Speech Recognition

Huaibo Zhao, Yosuke Higuchi, Yusuke Kida +2

Achieving high accuracy with low latency has always been a challenge in streaming end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. By attending to more future contexts, a str…

eess.AS2023

Harnessing the Zero-Shot Power of Instruction-Tuned Large Language Model in End-to-End Speech Recognition

Yosuke Higuchi, Tetsuji Ogawa, Tetsunori Kobayashi

We propose to utilize an instruction-tuned large language model (LLM) for guiding the text generation process in automatic speech recognition (ASR). Modern large language models (L…

cs.CL2022

A Study on the Integration of Pre-trained SSL, ASR, LM and SLU Models for Spoken Language Understanding

Yifan Peng, Siddhant Arora, Yosuke Higuchi +6

Collecting sufficient labeled data for spoken language understanding (SLU) is expensive and time-consuming. Recent studies achieved promising results by using pre-trained models in…