TR2018-136

ESPnet: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit

    •  Watanabe, S., Hori, T., Karita, S., Hayashi, T., Nishitoba, J., Unno, Y., Enrique Yalta Soplin, N., Heymann, J., Wiesner, M., Chen, N., Renduchintala, A., Ochiai, T., "ESPnet: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit", Interspeech, September 2018.
      BibTeX TR2018-136 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Watanabe2018sep,
      • author = {Watanabe, Shinji and Hori, Takaaki and Karita, Shigeki and Hayashi, Tomoki and Nishitoba, Jiro and Unno, Yuya and Enrique Yalta Soplin, Nelson and Heymann, Jahn and Wiesner, Matthew and Chen, Nanxin and Renduchintala, Adithya and Ochiai, Tsubasa},
      • title = {ESPnet: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit},
      • booktitle = {Interspeech},
      • year = 2018,
      • month = sep,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-136}
      • }
  • Research Areas:

    Artificial Intelligence, Speech & Audio

Abstract:

This paper introduces a new open source platform for end-to-end speech processing named ESPnet. ESPnet mainly focuses on end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR), and adopts widely-used dynamic neural network toolkits, Chainer and PyTorch, as a main deep learning engine. ESPnet also follows the Kaldi ASR toolkit style for data processing, feature extraction/format, and recipes to provide a complete setup for speech recognition and other speech processing experiments. This paper explains a major architecture of this software platform, several important functionalities, which differentiate ESPnet from other open source ASR toolkits, and experimental results with major ASR benchmarks.

 

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  •  Watanabe, S., Hori, T., Karita, S., Hayashi, T., Nishitoba, J., Unno, Y., Enrique Yalta Soplin, N., Heymann, J., Wiesner, M., Chen, N., Renduchintala, A., Ochiai, T., "ESPnet: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit", arXiv, March 2018.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Watanabe2018mar,
    • author = {Watanabe, Shinji and Hori, Takaaki and Karita, Shigeki and Hayashi, Tomoki and Nishitoba, Jiro and Unno, Yuya and Enrique Yalta Soplin, Nelson and Heymann, Jahn and Wiesner, Matthew and Chen, Nanxin and Renduchintala, Adithya and Ochiai, Tsubasa},
    • title = {ESPnet: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2018,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00015}
    • }