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arxiv: 1808.10583 · v2 · pith:WUKJ2V37new · submitted 2018-08-31 · 💻 cs.CL

AISHELL-2: Transforming Mandarin ASR Research Into Industrial Scale

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AISHELL-1 is by far the largest open-source speech corpus available for Mandarin speech recognition research. It was released with a baseline system containing solid training and testing pipelines for Mandarin ASR. In AISHELL-2, 1000 hours of clean read-speech data from iOS is published, which is free for academic usage. On top of AISHELL-2 corpus, an improved recipe is developed and released, containing key components for industrial applications, such as Chinese word segmentation, flexible vocabulary expension and phone set transformation etc. Pipelines support various state-of-the-art techniques, such as time-delayed neural networks and Lattic-Free MMI objective funciton. In addition, we also release dev and test data from other channels(Android and Mic). For research community, we hope that AISHELL-2 corpus can be a solid resource for topics like transfer learning and robust ASR. For industry, we hope AISHELL-2 recipe can be a helpful reference for building meaningful industrial systems and products.

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