REPLACING HUMAN-RECORDED AUDIO WITH SYNTHETIC AUDIOFOR ON-DEVICE UNSPOKEN PUNCTUATION PREDICTION
Abstract
We present a novel multi-modal unspoken punctuation prediction system for the English language, which relies on Quasi-Recurrent Neural Networks (QRNNs) applied jointly on the text output from automatic speech recognition and acoustic features.
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We show significant improvements from adding acoustic features compared to the text-only baseline. Because annotated acoustic data is hard to obtain, we demonstrate that relying on only 20% of human-annotated audio and replacing the rest with synthetic text-to-speech (TTS) predictions, does not suffer from quality loss on LibriTTS corpus.
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Furthermore, we demonstrate that through data augmentation using TTS models, we can remove human-recorded audio completely and outperform models trained on it.
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