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TASK AWARE MULTI-TASK LEARNING FOR SPEECH TO TEXT TASKS

10 Jun 2021ICASSP 2021 6archive 2025-07-28

Sathish Indurthi, Mohd Abbas Zaidi, Nikhil Kumar Lakumarapu, Beomseok Lee, Hyojung Han, Seokchan Ahn, Sangha Kim, Chanwoo Kim, Inchul Hwang

In general, the direct Speech-to-text translation (ST) is jointly trained with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and Machine Translation (MT) tasks. However, the issues with the current joint learning strategies inhibit the knowledge transfer across these tasks. We propose a task modulation network which allows the model to learn task specific features, while learning the shared features simultaneously. This proposed approach removes the need for separate finetuning step resulting in a single model which performs all these tasks. This single model achieves a performance of 28.64 BLEU score on ST MuST-C English-German, WER of 11.61% on ASR TEDLium v3, 23.35 BLEU score on MT WMT’15 English-German task. This sets a new state-of-the-art performance (SOTA) on the ST task while outperforming the existing end-to-end ASR systems.

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Automatic Speech RecognitionAutomatic Speech Recognition (ASR)Machine TranslationMulti-Task LearningSpeech RecognitionSpeech-to-TextSpeech-to-Text TranslationTransfer LearningTranslationspeech-recognition

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Speech-to-Text Translation MuST-C EN->DE Task Modulation + Multitask Learning(ASR/MT) + Data Augmentation Case-sensitive sacreBLEU 28.88 #1 of 8 Archive leaderboard report

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Absolute Position EncodingsAdamAttentionBPEDense ConnectionsDropoutLabel SmoothingLayer NormalizationLinear LayerMulti-Head AttentionPosition-Wise Feed-Forward LayerResidual ConnectionSoftmaxTransformer

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