A novel pyramidal-FSMN architecture with lattice-free MMI for speech recognition

Xuerui Yang, Jiwei Li, Xi Zhou

Deep Feedforward Sequential Memory Network (DFSMN) has shown superior performance on speech recognition tasks. Based on this work, we propose a novel network architecture which introduces pyramidal memory structure to represent various context information in different layers. Additionally, res-CNN layers are added in the front to extract more sophisticated features as well. Together with lattice-free maximum mutual information (LF-MMI) and cross entropy (CE) joint training criteria, experimental results show that this approach achieves word error rates (WERs) of 3.62% and 10.89% respectively on Librispeech and LDC97S62 (Switchboard 300 hours) corpora. Furthermore, Recurrent neural network language model (RNNLM) rescoring is applied and a WER of 2.97% is obtained on Librispeech.

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