Improving Frame-level Classifier for Word Timings with Non-peaky CTC in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition
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End-to-end (E2E) systems have shown comparable performance to hybrid systems for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Word timings, as a by-product of ASR, are essential in many applications, especially for subtitling and computer-aided pronunciation training. In this paper, we improve the frame-level classifier for word timings in E2E system by introducing label priors in connectionist temporal classification (CTC) loss, which is adopted from prior works, and combining low-level Mel-scale filter banks with high-level ASR encoder output as input feature. On the internal Chinese corpus, the proposed method achieves 95.68 93.0 E2E approach with an absolute increase of 4.80 languages. In addition, we further improve word timing accuracy by delaying CTC peaks with frame-wise knowledge distillation, though only experimenting on LibriSpeech.
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