摘要翻译：
训练一个传统的自动语音识别(ASR)系统以支持多种语言是具有挑战性的，因为子词单元、词典和单词目录通常是特定于语言的。相比之下，序列到序列模型非常适合于多语言ASR，因为它们将声学、发音和语言模型联合封装在一个网络中。在这项工作中，我们提出了一个单一的序列到序列的ASR模型，在9种不同的印度语言上训练，这些语言在它们的脚本中几乎没有重叠。具体地说，我们采用特定于语言的字素集的并集，并在来自所有语言的数据上联合训练一个基于字素的序列到序列模型。我们发现，与在每种语言上单独训练的类似序列到序列模型相比，该模型在没有明确给出任何关于语言身份的信息的情况下，识别性能提高了21%。通过修改模型以接受一个语言标识符作为额外的输入特征，我们进一步提高了7%的相对性能，并消除了不同语言之间的混淆。
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英文标题：
《Multilingual Speech Recognition With A Single End-To-End Model》
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作者：
Shubham Toshniwal, Tara N. Sainath, Ron J. Weiss, Bo Li, Pedro Moreno,
  Eugene Weinstein, Kanishka Rao
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最新提交年份：
2018
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分类信息：

一级分类：Electrical Engineering and Systems Science        电气工程与系统科学
二级分类：Audio and Speech Processing        音频和语音处理
分类描述：Theory and methods for processing signals representing audio, speech, and language, and their applications. This includes analysis, synthesis, enhancement, transformation, classification and interpretation of such signals as well as the design, development, and evaluation of associated signal processing systems. Machine learning and pattern analysis applied to any of the above areas is also welcome.  Specific topics of interest include: auditory modeling and hearing aids; acoustic beamforming and source localization; classification of acoustic scenes; speaker separation; active noise control and echo cancellation; enhancement; de-reverberation; bioacoustics; music signals analysis, synthesis and modification; music information retrieval;  audio for multimedia and joint audio-video processing; spoken and written language modeling, segmentation, tagging, parsing, understanding, and translation; text mining; speech production, perception, and psychoacoustics; speech analysis, synthesis, and perceptual modeling and coding; robust speech recognition; speaker recognition and characterization; deep learning, online learning, and graphical models applied to speech, audio, and language signals; and implementation aspects ranging from system architecture to fast algorithms.
处理代表音频、语音和语言的信号的理论和方法及其应用。这包括分析、合成、增强、转换、分类和解释这些信号，以及相关信号处理系统的设计、开发和评估。机器学习和模式分析应用于上述任何领域也是受欢迎的。感兴趣的具体主题包括：听觉建模和助听器；声波束形成与声源定位；声场景分类；说话人分离；有源噪声控制和回声消除；增强；去混响；生物声学；音乐信号的分析、合成与修饰；音乐信息检索；多媒体音频和联合音视频处理；口语和书面语建模、切分、标注、句法分析、理解和翻译；文本挖掘；言语产生、感知和心理声学；语音分析、合成、感知建模和编码；鲁棒语音识别；说话人识别与特征描述；应用于语音、音频和语言信号的深度学习、在线学习和图形模型；以及从系统架构到快速算法的实现方面。
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一级分类：Computer Science        计算机科学
二级分类：Artificial Intelligence        人工智能
分类描述：Covers all areas of AI except Vision, Robotics, Machine Learning, Multiagent Systems, and Computation and Language (Natural Language Processing), which have separate subject areas. In particular, includes Expert Systems, Theorem Proving (although this may overlap with Logic in Computer Science), Knowledge Representation, Planning, and Uncertainty in AI. Roughly includes material in ACM Subject Classes I.2.0, I.2.1, I.2.3, I.2.4, I.2.8, and I.2.11.
涵盖了人工智能的所有领域，除了视觉、机器人、机器学习、多智能体系统以及计算和语言（自然语言处理），这些领域有独立的学科领域。特别地，包括专家系统，定理证明（尽管这可能与计算机科学中的逻辑重叠），知识表示，规划，和人工智能中的不确定性。大致包括ACM学科类I.2.0、I.2.1、I.2.3、I.2.4、I.2.8和I.2.11中的材料。
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一级分类：Computer Science        计算机科学
二级分类：Computation and Language        计算与语言
分类描述：Covers natural language processing. Roughly includes material in ACM Subject Class I.2.7. Note that work on artificial languages (programming languages, logics, formal systems) that does not explicitly address natural-language issues broadly construed (natural-language processing, computational linguistics, speech, text retrieval, etc.) is not appropriate for this area.
涵盖自然语言处理。大致包括ACM科目I.2.7类的材料。请注意，人工语言（编程语言、逻辑学、形式系统）的工作，如果没有明确地解决广义的自然语言问题（自然语言处理、计算语言学、语音、文本检索等），就不适合这个领域。
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英文摘要：
  Training a conventional automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to support multiple languages is challenging because the sub-word unit, lexicon and word inventories are typically language specific. In contrast, sequence-to-sequence models are well suited for multilingual ASR because they encapsulate an acoustic, pronunciation and language model jointly in a single network. In this work we present a single sequence-to-sequence ASR model trained on 9 different Indian languages, which have very little overlap in their scripts. Specifically, we take a union of language-specific grapheme sets and train a grapheme-based sequence-to-sequence model jointly on data from all languages. We find that this model, which is not explicitly given any information about language identity, improves recognition performance by 21% relative compared to analogous sequence-to-sequence models trained on each language individually. By modifying the model to accept a language identifier as an additional input feature, we further improve performance by an additional 7% relative and eliminate confusion between different languages.
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PDF链接：
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.01694