Pedro J. Moreno

From Audio to Semantics: Approaches to End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding

2018

Conventional spoken language understanding systems consist of two main components: an automatic speech recognition module that converts audio to a transcript, and a natural language understanding module that transforms the resulting text (or top N …

Multilingual Speech Recognition with a Single End-to-End Model

2018

Training a conventional automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to support multiple languages is challenging because the sub-word unit, lexicon and word inventories are typically language specific. In contrast, sequence-to-sequence models are well suited for multilingual …