SpecAugment: A New Data Augmentation Method for Automatic Speech Recognition

1 · Google AI Research · April 22, 2019, 5:42 p.m.
Posted by Daniel S. Park, AI Resident and William Chan, Research Scientist Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the process of taking an audio input and transcribing it to text, has benefited greatly from the ongoing development of deep neural networks. As a result, ASR has become ubiquitous in many modern devices and products, such as Google Assistant, Google Home and YouTube. Nevertheless, there remain many important challenges in developing deep learning-based ASR systems. One such challenge i...