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Large Scale Language Modeling in Automatic Speech Recognition
Abstract: Large language models have been proven quite beneficial for
a variety of automatic speech recognition tasks in Google. We summarize results on
Voice Search and a few YouTube speech transcription tasks to highlight the impact that
one can expect from increasing both the amount of training data, and the size of the
language model estimated from such data. Depending on the task, availability and amount
of training data used, language model size and amount of work and care put into
integrating them in the lattice rescoring step we observe reductions in word error rate
between 6% and 10% relative, for systems on a wide range of operating points between
17% and 52% word error rate.
