# Analysis of Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence speech recognition systems

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03451 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.03451/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 7 Nov 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [XLST: Cross-lingual Self-training to Learn Multilingual Representation for Low Resource Speech Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.08207/) (2021)
- [Adaptive Activation Network For Low Resource Multilingual Speech Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.14326/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper investigates the applications of various multilingual approaches developed in conventional hidden Markov model (HMM) systems to sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) automatic speech recognition (ASR). On a set composed of Babel data, we first show the effectiveness of multi-lingual training with stacked bottle-neck (SBN) features. Then we explore various architectures and training strategies of multi-lingual seq2seq models based on CTC-attention networks including combinations of output layer, CTC and/or attention component re-training. We also investigate the effectiveness of language-transfer learning in a very low resource scenario when the target language is not included in the original multi-lingual training data. Interestingly, we found multilingual features superior to multilingual models, and this finding suggests that we can efficiently combine the benefits of the HMM system with the seq2seq system through these multilingual feature techniques.