A Comparison of Hybrid and End-to-End Models for Syllable Recognition
This paper presents a comparison of a traditional hybrid speech recognition system (kaldi using WFST and TDNN with lattice-free MMI) and a lexicon-free end-to-end (TensorFlow implementation of multi-layer LSTM with CTC training) models for German syllable recognition on the Verbmobil corpus. The results show that explicitly modeling prior knowledge is still valuable in building recognition systems. With a strong language model (LM) based on syllables, the structured approach significantly outperforms the end-to-end model. The best word error rate (WER) regarding syllables was achieved using kaldi with a 4-gram LM, modeling all syllables observed in the training set. It achieved 10.0% WER w.r.t. the syllables, compared to the end-to-end approach where the best WER was 27.53%. The work presented here has implications for building future recognition systems that operate independent of a large vocabulary, as typically used in a tasks such as recognition of syllabic or agglutinative languages, out-of-vocabulary techniques, keyword search indexing and medical speech processing.
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