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Streaming Punctuation for Long-Form Dictation with Transformers

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Author :  Piyush Behre

Affiliation :  Microsoft Corporation

Country :  United States

Category :  Digital Signal & Image Processing

Volume, Issue, Month, Year :  12, 20, November, 2022

Abstract :


While speech recognition Word Error Rate (WER) has reached human parity for English, long-form dictation scenarios still suffer from segmentation and punctuation problems resulting from irregular pausing patterns or slow speakers. Transformer sequence tagging models are effective at capturing long bi-directional context, which is crucial for automatic punctuation. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) production systems, however, are constrained by real-time requirements, making it hard to incorporate the right context when making punctuation decisions. In this paper, we propose a streaming approach for punctuation or re-punctuation of ASR output using dynamic decoding windows and measure its impact on punctuation and segmentation accuracy across scenarios. The new system tackles over-segmentation issues, improving segmentation F0.5-score by 13.9%. Streaming punctuation achieves an average BLEU-score improvement of 0.66 for the downstream task of Machine Translation (MT).

Keyword :  Automatic punctuation, automatic speech recognition, re-punctuation, speech segmentation

Journal/ Proceedings Name :  8th International Conference on Signal, Image Processing and Embedded Systems (SIGEM 2022)

URL :  https://aircconline.com/csit/papers/vol12/csit122014.pdf

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Posted 06-12-2022 on 16:58:59 AEDT



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