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@TECHREPORT{Kumar_Idiap-RR-08-2024,
         author = {Kumar, Shashi and Madikeri, Srikanth and Zuluaga-Gomez, Juan and Villatoro-Tello, Esa{\'{u}} and Iuliia, Nigmatulina and Motlicek, Petr and E, Manjunath K and Ganapathiraju, Aravind},
          month = {8},
          title = {XLSR-Transducer: Streaming ASR for Self-Supervised Pretrained Models},
           type = {Idiap-RR},
         number = {Idiap-RR-08-2024},
           year = {2024},
    institution = {Idiap},
            url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04439},
       abstract = {Self-supervised pretrained models exhibit competitive performance in automatic speech recognition on finetuning, even with limited in-domain supervised data for training. However, popular pretrained models are not suitable for streaming ASR because they are trained with full attention context. In this paper, we introduce XLSR-Transducer, where the XLSR-53 model is used as encoder in transducer setup. Our experiments on the AMI dataset reveal that the XLSR-Transducer achieves 4\% absolute WER improvement over Whisper large-v2 and 8\% over a Zipformer transducer model trained from scratch. To enable streaming capabilities, we investigate different attention masking patterns in the self-attention computation of transformer layers within the XLSR-53 model. We validate XLSR-Transducer on AMI and 5 languages from CommonVoice under low-resource scenarios. Finally, with the introduction of attention sinks, we reduce the left context by half while achieving a relative 12\% improvement in WER.},
            pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2024/Kumar_Idiap-RR-08-2024.pdf}
}