Antoine Laurent

Effective keyword search for low-resourced conversational speech

2017

In this paper we aim to enhance keyword search for conversational telephone speech under low-resourced conditions. Two techniques to improve the detection of out-of-vocabulary keywords are assessed in this study: using extra text resources to …

ASR-Generated Text for Language Model Pre-training Applied to Speech Tasks

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We aim at improving spoken language modeling (LM) using very large amount of automatically transcribed speech. We leverage the INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) collection and obtain 19GB of text after applying ASR on 350,000 …

End-To-End Named Entity And Semantic Concept Extraction From Speech

2018

Named entity recognition (NER) is among SLU tasks that usually extract semantic information from textual documents. Until now, NER from speech is made through a pipeline process that consists in processing first an automatic speech …