Joint Speaker Counting, Speech Recognition, and Speaker Identification for Overlapped Speech of any Number of Speakers
Naoyuki Kanda, Yashesh Gaur, Xiaofei Wang, Zhong Meng, Zhuo Chen, Tianyan Zhou, Takuya Yoshioka · 2020
We propose an end-to-end speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition model that unifies speaker counting, speech recognition, and speaker identification on monaural overlapped speech.Our model is built on serialized output training (SOT) with attention-based encoder-decoder, a recently proposed method for recognizing overlapped speech comprising an arbitrary number of speakers.We extend SOT by introducing a speaker inventory as an auxiliary input to produce speaker labels as well as multi-speaker transcriptions.All model parameters are optimized by speaker-attributed maximum mutual information criterion, which represents a joint probability for overlapped speech recognition and speaker identification.Experiments on LibriSpeech corpus show that our proposed method achieves significantly better speaker-attributed word error rate than the baseline that separately performs overlapped speech recognition and speaker identification.