Abstract
We show that an end-to-end deep learning approach can be used to recognize
either English or Mandarin Chinese speech--two vastly different languages.
Because it replaces entire pipelines of hand-engineered components with neural
networks, end-to-end learning allows us to handle a diverse variety of speech
including noisy environments, accents and different languages. Key to our
approach is our application of HPC techniques, resulting in a 7x speedup over
our previous system. Because of this efficiency, experiments that previously
took weeks now run in days. This enables us to iterate more quickly to identify
superior architectures and algorithms. As a result, in several cases, our
system is competitive with the transcription of human workers when benchmarked
on standard datasets. Finally, using a technique called Batch Dispatch with
GPUs in the data center, we show that our system can be inexpensively deployed
in an online setting, delivering low latency when serving users at scale.
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