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20172026
most citedJust ASK: Building an Architecture for Extensible Self-Service Spoken Language Understanding

55 citations · 74 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

eess.AS2026

T-Mimi: A Transformer-based Mimi Decoder for Real-Time On-Phone TTS

Haibin Wu, Bach Viet Do, Naveen Suda +10

Neural audio codecs provide promising acoustic features for speech synthesis, with representative streaming codecs like Mimi providing high-quality acoustic features for real-time…

cs.SD2025

Vevo: Controllable Zero-Shot Voice Imitation with Self-Supervised Disentanglement

Xueyao Zhang, Xiaohui Zhang, Kainan Peng +10

The imitation of voice, targeted on specific speech attributes such as timbre and speaking style, is crucial in speech generation. However, existing methods rely heavily on annotat…

eess.AS2021★ 1 cited

On lattice-free boosted MMI training of HMM and CTC-based full-context ASR models

Xiaohui Zhang, Vimal Manohar, David Zhang +7

Hybrid automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are typically sequentially trained with CTC or LF-MMI criteria. However, they have vastly different legacies and are usually implem…

cs.CL2021

Dynamic Encoder Transducer: A Flexible Solution For Trading Off Accuracy For Latency

Yangyang Shi, Varun Nagaraja, Chunyang Wu +9

We propose a dynamic encoder transducer (DET) for on-device speech recognition. One DET model scales to multiple devices with different computation capacities without retraining or…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Contextualized Streaming End-to-End Speech Recognition with Trie-Based Deep Biasing and Shallow Fusion

Duc Le, Mahaveer Jain, Gil Keren +9

How to leverage dynamic contextual information in end-to-end speech recognition has remained an active research area. Previous solutions to this problem were either designed for sp…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

Deep Shallow Fusion for RNN-T Personalization

Duc Le, Gil Keren, Julian Chan +3

End-to-end models in general, and Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T) in particular, have gained significant traction in the automatic speech recognition community in the l…

eess.AS2020

Benchmarking LF-MMI, CTC and RNN-T Criteria for Streaming ASR

Xiaohui Zhang, Frank Zhang, Chunxi Liu +8

In this work, to measure the accuracy and efficiency for a latency-controlled streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) application, we perform comprehensive evaluations on thre…

cs.CL2020

Streaming Attention-Based Models with Augmented Memory for End-to-End Speech Recognition

Ching-Feng Yeh, Yongqiang Wang, Yangyang Shi +4

Attention-based models have been gaining popularity recently for their strong performance demonstrated in fields such as machine translation and automatic speech recognition. One m…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

Transformer in action: a comparative study of transformer-based acoustic models for large scale speech recognition applications

Yongqiang Wang, Yangyang Shi, Frank Zhang +4

In this paper, we summarize the application of transformer and its streamable variant, Emformer based acoustic model for large scale speech recognition applications. We compare the…

cs.SD2020★ 13 cited

Emformer: Efficient Memory Transformer Based Acoustic Model For Low Latency Streaming Speech Recognition

Yangyang Shi, Yongqiang Wang, Chunyang Wu +5

This paper proposes an efficient memory transformer Emformer for low latency streaming speech recognition. In Emformer, the long-range history context is distilled into an augmente…

cs.CL2017★ 55 cited

Just ASK: Building an Architecture for Extensible Self-Service Spoken Language Understanding

Anjishnu Kumar, Arpit Gupta, Julian Chan +9

This paper presents the design of the machine learning architecture that underlies the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) a large scale Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) Software Development…