Out-of-Vocabulary Word Recovery using FST-Based Subword Unit Clustering in a Hybrid ASR System

Ekaterina Egorova; Lukás Burget

ICASSP 2018accepted0 citations

Out-of-Vocabulary Word Recovery using FST-Based Subword Unit Clustering in a Hybrid ASR System

Abstract

The paper presents a new approach to extracting useful information from out-of-vocabulary (OOV) speech regions in ASR system output. The system makes use of a hybrid decoding network with both words and sub-word units. In the decoded lattices, candidates for OOV regions are identified as sub-graphs of sub-word units. To facilitate OOV word recovery, we search for recurring OOV s by clustering the detected candidate OOV s. The metrics for clustering is based on a comparison of the sub-graphs corresponding to the OOV candidates. The proposed method discovers repeating out-of-vocabulary words and finds their graphemic representation more robustly than more conventional techniques taking into account only one best sub-word string hypotheses.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{icassp2018_outofvocabularyw,
  title = {Out-of-Vocabulary Word Recovery using FST-Based Subword Unit Clustering in a Hybrid ASR System},
  author = {Ekaterina Egorova and Lukás Burget},
  booktitle = {ICASSP 2018},
  year = {2018}
}