UMA-Split: unimodal aggregation for both English and Mandarin non-autoregressive speech recognition
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Title:UMA-Split: unimodal aggregation for both English and Mandarin non-autoregressive speech recognition
Abstract:This paper proposes a unimodal aggregation (UMA) based nonautoregressive model for both English and Mandarin speech recognition. The original UMA explicitly segments and aggregates acoustic frames (with unimodal weights that first monotonically increase and then decrease) of the same text token to learn better representations than regular connectionist temporal classification (CTC). However, it only works well in Mandarin. It struggles with other languages, such as English, for which a single syllable may be tokenized into multiple fine-grained tokens, or a token spans fewer than 3 acoustic frames and fails to form unimodal weights. To address this problem, we propose allowing each UMA-aggregated frame map to multiple tokens, via a simple split module that generates two tokens from each aggregated frame before computing the CTC loss.
| Comments: | Accepted by ICASSP 2026. Code:this https URL |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2509.14653 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2509.14653v2 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.14653
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From: Ying Fang [view email][v1] Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:20:39 UTC (176 KB)
[v2] Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:24:06 UTC (175 KB)
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