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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2018
Tencent America Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chengzhu Yu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Chao Weng, Fremont, CA (US);
Jia Cui, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dong Yu, Bothell, WA (US);
TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses are provided for performing acoustic to word (A2W) speech recognition training performed by at least one processor. The method includes initializing, by the at least one processor, one or more first layers of a neural network with phone based Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC), initializing, by the at least one processor, one or more second layers of the neural network with grapheme based CTC, acquiring, by the at least one processor, training data and performing, by the at least one processor, A2W speech recognition training based the initialized one or more first layers and one or more second layers of the neural network using the training data.