ISCA Archive Interspeech 2023
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2023

Language Agnostic Data-Driven Inverse Text Normalization

Szu-Jui Chen, Debjyoti Paul, Yutong Pang, Peng Su, Xuedong Zhang

The rise of automatic speech recognition (ASR) models has created an urgent need for converting spoken language into written text to provide better user experiences. This has drawn the attention of researchers, particularly for real-time on-device ASR deployment, towards the inverse text normalization (ITN) problem. While data-driven ITN methods have shown great promise in recent studies, the lack of labeled spoken-written datasets is hindering the development for non-English data-driven ITN. To bridge this gap, we propose a language-agnostic data-driven ITN framework that leverages data augmentation and neural machine translation specifically designed for real-time miniature models and low-resource languages. Additionally, we have developed an evaluation method for language-agnostic ITN models when only English data is available. Our empirical evaluation attests to the efficacy of this language-agnostic ITN modeling with data augmentation approach for multiple non-English languages.