[Lisa_teatalk] Tea Talk 8 Oct Wed @13.30 AA3195 by Jan Chorowski

Kyung Hyun Cho cho.k.hyun at gmail.com
Wed Oct 8 10:42:22 EDT 2014


Dear all,

This is a reminder of today's tea talk by Jan Chorowski.

Hope to see many of you there!
- K

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Kyung Hyun Cho <cho.k.hyun at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> On Wednesday (8 Oct), Jan Chorowski will tell us about his latest work on
> building an end-to-end speech recognition system using attention mechanism.
> This work has been submitted to NIPS Deep Learning Workshop 2014, and the
> submitted manuscript is attached.
>
> Hope to see many of you there!
> - K
>
> ===
> - Title: End-to-end Continuous Speech Recognition using Attention-based
> Recurrent NN: First Results
> - Spaker: Prof. Jan Chorowski, University of Wrocław, Poland
> - Date and Place: 13.30-14.30, 8 Oct (Wednesday) @AA3195
> - Abstract:
> We replace the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) which is traditionally used in in
> continuous speech recognition with a bi-directional recurrent neural
> network en- coder coupled to a recurrent neural network decoder that
> directly emits a stream of phonemes. The alignment between the input and
> output sequences is established using an attention mechanism: the decoder
> emits each symbol based on a context created with a subset of input symbols
> selected by the attention mechanism. We report initial results
> demonstrating that this new approach achieves phoneme error rates that are
> comparable to the state-of-the-art HMM-based decoders, on the TIMIT
> dataset.
>
>
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