Large-scale Language Model Rescoring on Long-form Data
Authors: name: Tongzhou Chen; name: Cyril Allauzen; name: Yinghui Huang; name: Daniel Park; name: David Rybach; name: W. Ronny Huang; name: Rodrigo Cabrera; name: Kartik Audhkhasi; name: Bhuvana Ramabhadran; name: Pedro J. Moreno; name: Michael Riley
Published: 2023-06-13 20:54:12

Abstract: In this work, we study the impact of Large-scale Language Models (LLM) on
Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) of YouTube videos, which we use as a source
for long-form ASR. We demonstrate up to 8\% relative reduction in Word Error
Eate (WER) on US English (en-us) and code-switched Indian English (en-in)
long-form ASR test sets and a reduction of up to 30\% relative on Salient Term
Error Rate (STER) over a strong first-pass baseline that uses a maximum-entropy
based language model. Improved lattice processing that results in a lattice
with a proper (non-tree) digraph topology and carrying context from the 1-best
hypothesis of the previous segment(s) results in significant wins in rescoring
with LLMs. We also find that the gains in performance from the combination of
LLMs trained on vast quantities of available data (such as C4) and conventional
neural LMs is additive and significantly outperforms a strong first-pass
baseline with a maximum entropy LM.