Computational evaluation demonstrates word-level unsupervised speech recognition without a phoneme lexicon, highlighting a viable path for training models without paired corpora.
Recent advancements in supervised automatic speech recognition (ASR) have achieved remarkable performance, largely due to the growing availability of large transcribed speech corpora. However, most languages lack sufficient paired speech and text data to effectively train these systems. In this article, we tackle the challenge of developing ASR systems without paired speech and text corpora by proposing the removal of reliance on a phoneme lexicon. We explore a new research direction: word-level unsupervised ASR. Using a curated speech corpus containing only high-frequency English words, our system achieves a word error rate of nearly 20% without parallel transcripts or oracle word boundaries. Furthermore, we experimentally demonstrate that an unsupervised speech recognizer can emerge from joint speech-to-speech and text-to-text masked token-infilling. This innovative model surpasses the performance of previous unsupervised ASR models trained with direct distribution matching.
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