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Joint unsupervised and supervised training for multilingual ASR

US12249317B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 6, 2022
Grant dateMar 11, 2025
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Expiry dateJul 16, 2043

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06N3/048
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method includes receiving audio features and generating a latent speech representation based on the audio features. The method also includes generating a target quantized vector token and a target token index for a corresponding latent speech representation. The method also includes generating a contrastive context vector for a corresponding unmasked or masked latent speech representation and deriving a contrastive self-supervised loss based on the corresponding contrastive context vector and the corresponding target quantized vector token. The method also include generating a high-level context vector based on the contrastive context vector and, for each high-level context vector, learning to predict the target token index at the corresponding time step using a cross-entropy loss based on the target token index. The method also includes predicting speech recognition hypotheses for the utterance and training a multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) model using an unsupervised loss and a supervised loss.

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