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Jan 12, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

Efficient Conformer for End‑to‑End Speech Recognition: Model, Implementation, Streaming Inference, and Experimental Results

This article presents a comprehensive overview of the Efficient Conformer model for large‑scale end‑to‑end speech recognition, detailing its architectural improvements such as progressive downsampling and grouped multi‑head self‑attention, the PyTorch implementation in WeNet, streaming inference handling, experimental CER gains on AISHELL‑1 and production data, and future development plans.