ISCA Archive Interspeech 2019
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2019

Scalable Multi Corpora Neural Language Models for ASR

Anirudh Raju, Denis Filimonov, Gautam Tiwari, Guitang Lan, Ariya Rastrow

Neural language models (NLM) have been shown to outperform conventional n-gram language models by a substantial margin in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and other tasks. There are, however, a number of challenges that need to be addressed for an NLM to be used in a practical large-scale ASR system. In this paper, we present solutions to some of the challenges, including training NLM from heterogenous corpora, limiting latency impact and handling personalized bias in the second-pass rescorer. Overall, we show that we can achieve a 6.2% relative WER reduction using neural LM in a second-pass n-best rescoring framework with a minimal increase in latency.