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Welsh universities change lives with artificial intelligence and data science – FE News

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Welsh Government investment in universities collaborating in data science and artificial intelligence is changing lives and helping Wales become …


Minimising Biasing Word Errors for Contextual ASR with the Tree-Constrained Pointer Generator

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Contextual knowledge is essential for reducing speech recognition errors on high-valued long-tail words. This paper proposes a novel tree-constrained pointer generator (TCPGen) component that enables end-to-end ASR models to bias towards a list of long-tail words obtained using external contextual information. With only a small overhead in memory use and computation cost, TCPGen can structure thousands of biasing words efficiently into a symbolic prefix-tree and creates a neural shortcut between the tree and the final ASR output to facilitate the recognition of the biasing words. To enhance TCPGen, we further propose a novel minimum biasing word error (MBWE) loss that directly optimises biasing word errors during training, along with a biasing-word-driven language model discounting (BLMD) method during the test. All contextual ASR systems were evaluated on the public Librispeech audiobook corpus and the data from the dialogue state tracking challenges (DSTC) with the biasing lists extracted from the dialogue-system ontology. Consistent word error rate (WER) reductions were achieved with TCPGen, which were particularly significant on the biasing words with around 40\% relative reductions in the recognition error rates. MBWE and BLMD further improved the effectiveness of TCPGen and achieved more significant WER reductions on the biasing words. TCPGen also achieved zero-shot learning of words not in the audio training set with large WER reductions on the out-of-vocabulary words in the biasing list.



Watch a creepy disembodied robot mouth recite prayers, using AI

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According to the conviction of most scientists within the research about artificial intelligence, robots as self-learning software running on so …


Chatham audio company goes Hollywood – Blackburn News

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… with helping a California sound company co-founded by Steven Spielberg research machine learning, a component of Artificial Intelligence (AI).


How AI Can Act As the Perfect Complement to Sales Teams – CEOWORLD magazine

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Artificial intelligence and automation can be powerful tools in sales, … Machine learning and natural language processing, for example, …


Gradiant Acquires Synauta, Machine Learning Company, to Advance AI … – AiThority.com

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Synauta's proprietary machine learning AI algorithms are deployed in municipal and industrial desalination facilities around the world.


ML & AI to play a key role for marketers in the third connected age: Rishad Tobaccowala

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… happening including data connecting to data, which is machine learning. Artificial Intelligence is fuelling everything including marketing, …


BigBear.ai names Tony Barrett as President of the Cyber and Engineering Sector – Help Net Security

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… developing and deploying technical expertise and innovative solutions in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), cyber security, …