WER are we? An attempt at tracking states of the art(s) and recent results on speech recognition. Feel free to correct! (Inspired by Are we there yet?)
(Possibly trained on more data than LibriSpeech.)
| WER test-clean | WER test-other | Paper | Published | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.83% | 12.69% | Humans Deep Speech 2: End-to-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin | December 2015 | Humans |
| 1.8% | 2.9% | HuBERT: Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning by Masked Prediction of Hidden Units | June 2021 | CNN-Transformer + Transformer LM (Self-Supervised, Libri-light-60K Unlabeled Data) |
| 1.9% | 3.9% | Conformer: Convolution-augmented Transformer for Speech Recognition | May 2020 | Convolution-augmented-Transformer(Conformer) + 3-layer LSTM LM (data augmentation:SpecAugment) |
| 1.9% | 4.1% | ContextNet: Improving Convolutional Neural Networks for Automatic Speech Recognition with Global Context | May 2020 | CNN-RNN-Transducer(ContextNet) + 3-layer LSTM LM (data augmentation:SpecAugment) |
| 2.0% | 4.1% | End-to-end ASR: from Supervised to Semi-Supervised Learning with Modern Architectures | November 2019 | Conv+Transformer AM (10k word pieces) with ConvLM decoding and Transformer rescoring + 60k hours unlabeled |
| 2.3% | 4.9% | Transformer-based Acoustic Modeling for Hybrid Speech Recognition | October 2019 | Transformer AM (chenones) + 4-gram LM + Neural LM rescore (data augmentation:Speed perturbation and SpecAugment) |
| 2.3% | 5.0% | RWTH ASR Systems for LibriSpeech: Hybrid vs Attention | September 2019, Interspeech | HMM-DNN + lattice-based sMBR + LSTM LM + Transformer LM rescoring (no data augmentation) |
| 2.3% | 5.2% | End-to-end ASR: from Supervised to Semi-Supervised Learning with Modern Architectures | November 2019 | Conv+Transformer AM (10k word pieces) with ConvLM decoding and Transformer rescoring |
| 2.2% | 5.8% | State-of-the-Art Speech Recognition Using Multi-Stream Self-Attention With Dilated 1D Convolutions | October 2019 | Multi-stream self-attention in hybrid ASR + 4-gram LM + Neural LM rescore (no data augmentation) |
| 2.5% | 5.8% | SpecAugment: A Simple Data Augmentation Method for Automatic Speech Recognition | April 2019 | Listen Attend Spell |
| 3.2% | 7.6% | From Senones to Chenones: Tied Context-Dependent Graphemes for Hybrid Speech Recognition | October 2019 | LC-BLSTM AM (chenones) + 4-gram LM (data augmentation:Speed perturbation and SpecAugment) |
| 3.19% | 7.64% | The CAPIO 2017 Conversational Speech Recognition System | April 2018 | TDNN + TDNN-LSTM + CNN-bLSTM + Dense TDNN-LSTM across two kinds of trees + N-gram LM + Neural LM rescore |
| 2.44% | 8.29% | Improved Vocal Tract Length Perturbation for a State-of-the-Art End-to-End Speech Recognition System | September 2019, Interspeech | encoder-attention-decoder + Transformer LM |
| 3.80% | 8.76% | Semi-Orthogonal Low-Rank Matrix Factorization for Deep Neural Networks | Interspeech, Sept 2018 | Kaldi recipe, 17-layer TDNN-F + iVectors |
| 2.8% | 9.3% | RWTH ASR Systems for LibriSpeech: Hybrid vs Attention | September 2019, Interspeech | encoder-attention-decoder + BPE + Transformer LM (no data augmentation) |
| 3.26% | 10.47% | Fully Convolutional Speech Recognition | December 2018 | End-to-end CNN on the waveform + conv LM |
| 3.82% | 12.76% | Improved training of end-to-end attention models for speech recognition | Interspeech, Sept 2018 | encoder-attention-decoder end-to-end model |
| 4.28% | Purely sequence-trained neural networks for ASR based on lattice-free MMI | September 2016 | HMM-TDNN trained with MMI + data augmentation (speed) + iVectors + 3 regularizations | |
| 4.83% | A time delay neural network architecture for efficient modeling of long temporal contexts | 2015 | HMM-TDNN + iVectors | |
| 5.15% | 12.73% | Deep Speech 2: End-to-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin | December 2015 | 9-layer model w/ 2 layers of 2D-invariant convolution & 7 recurrent layers, w/ 100M parameters trained on 11940h |
| 5.51% | 13.97% | LibriSpeech: an ASR Corpus Based on Public Domain Audio Books | 2015 | HMM-DNN + pNorm* |
| 4.8% | 14.5% | Letter-Based Speech Recognition with Gated ConvNets | December 2017 | (Gated) ConvNet for AM going to letters + 4-gram LM |
| 8.01% | 22.49% | same, Kaldi | 2015 | HMM-(SAT)GMM |
| 12.51% | Audio Augmentation for Speech Recognition | 2015 | TDNN + pNorm + speed up/down speech |
(Possibly trained on more data than WSJ.)
| WER eval'92 | WER eval'93 | Paper | Published | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.03% | 8.08% | Humans Deep Speech 2: End-to-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin | December 2015 | Humans |
| 2.9% | End-to-end Speech Recognition Using Lattice-Free MMI | September 2018 | HMM-DNN LF-MMI trained (biphone) | |
| 3.10% | Deep Speech 2: End-to-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin | December 2015 | 9-layer model w/ 2 layers of 2D-invariant convolution & 7 recurrent layers, w/ 100M parameters | |
| 3.47% | Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Acoustic Modelling | April 2015 | TC-DNN-BLSTM-DNN | |
| 3.5% | 6.8% | Fully Convolutional Speech Recognition | December 2018 | End-to-end CNN on the waveform + conv LM |
| 3.63% | 5.66% | LibriSpeech: an ASR Corpus Based on Public Domain Audio Books | 2015 | test-set on open vocabulary (i.e. harder), model = HMM-DNN + pNorm* |
| 4.1% | End-to-end Speech Recognition Using Lattice-Free MMI | September 2018 | HMM-DNN E2E LF-MMI trained (word n-gram) | |
| 5.6% | Convolutional Neural Networks-based Continuous Speech Recognition using Raw Speech Signal | 2014 | CNN over RAW speech (wav) | |
| 5.7% | 8.7% | End-to-end Speech Recognition from the Raw Waveform | June 2018 | End-to-end CNN on the waveform |
(Possibly trained on more data than SWB, but test set = full Hub5'00.)
| WER (SWB) | WER (CH) | Paper | Published | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.9% | 9.5% | An investigation of phone-based subword units for end-to-end speech recognition | April 2020 | 2 CNN + 24 layers Transformer encoder and 12 layers Transformer decoder model with char BPE and phoneme BPE units. Code available here |
| 5.0% | 9.1% | The CAPIO 2017 Conversational Speech Recognition System | December 2017 | 2 Dense LSTMs + 3 CNN-bLSTMs across 3 phonesets from previous Capio paper & AM adaptation using parameter averaging (5.6% SWB / 10.5% CH single systems) |
| 5.1% | 9.9% | Language Modeling with Highway LSTM | September 2017 | HW-LSTM LM trained with Switchboard+Fisher+Gigaword+Broadcast News+Conversations, AM from previous IBM paper |
| 5.1% | The Microsoft 2017 Conversational Speech Recognition System | August 2017 | ~2016 system + character-based dialog session aware (turns of speech) LSTM LM | |
| 5.3% | 10.1% | Deep Learning-based Telephony Speech Recognition in the Wild | August 2017 | Ensemble of 3 CNN-bLSTM (5.7% SWB / 11.3% CH single systems) |
| 5.5% | 10.3% | English Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition by Humans and Machines | March 2017 | ResNet + BiLSTMs acoustic model, with 40d FMLLR + i-Vector inputs, trained on SWB+Fisher+CH, n-gram + model-M + LSTM + Strided (à trous) convs-based LM trained on Switchboard+Fisher+Gigaword+Broadcast |
| 6.3% | 11.9% | The Microsoft 2016 Conversational Speech Recognition System | September 2016 | VGG/Resnet/LACE/BiLSTM acoustic model trained on SWB+Fisher+CH, N-gram + RNNLM language model trained on Switchboard+Fisher+Gigaword+Broadcast |
| 6.3% | 13.3% | An investigation of phone-based subword units for end-to-end speech recognition | April 2020 | 2 CNN + 24 layers Transformer encoder and 12 layers Transformer decoder model with char BPE and phoneme BPE units. Trained only on SWBD 300 hours. Code available here |
| 6.6% | 12.2% | The IBM 2016 English Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition System | June 2016 | RNN + VGG + LSTM acoustic model trained on SWB+Fisher+CH, N-gram + "model M" + NNLM language model |
| 6.8% | 14.1% | SpecAugment: A Simple Data Augmentation Method for Automatic Speech Recognition | April 2019 | Listen Attend Spell |
| 8.5% | 13% | Purely sequence-trained neural networks for ASR based on lattice-free MMI | September 2016 | HMM-BLSTM trained with MMI + data augmentation (speed) + iVectors + 3 regularizations + Fisher |
| 9.2% | 13.3% | Purely sequence-trained neural networks for ASR based on lattice-free MMI | September 2016 | HMM-TDNN trained with MMI + data augmentation (speed) + iVectors + 3 regularizations + Fisher (10% / 15.1% respectively trained on SWBD only) |
| 12.6% | 16% | Deep Speech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition | December 2014 | CNN + Bi-RNN + CTC (speech to letters), 25.9% WER if trained only on SWB |
| 11% | 17.1% | A time delay neural network architecture for efficient modeling of long temporal contexts | 2015 | HMM-TDNN + iVectors |
| 12.6% | 18.4% | Sequence-discriminative training of deep neural networks | 2013 | HMM-DNN +sMBR |
| 12.9% | 19.3% | Audio Augmentation for Speech Recognition | 2015 | HMM-TDNN + pNorm + speed up/down speech |
| 15% | 19.1% | Building DNN Acoustic Models for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition | June 2014 | DNN + Dropout |
| 10.4% | Joint Training of Convolutional and Non-Convolutional Neural Networks | 2014 | CNN on MFSC/fbanks + 1 non-conv layer for FMLLR/I-Vectors concatenated in a DNN | |
| 11.5% | Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for LVCSR | 2013 | CNN | |
| 12.2% | Very Deep Multilingual Convolutional Neural Networks for LVCSR | September 2015 | Deep CNN (10 conv, 4 FC layers), multi-scale feature maps | |
| 11.8% | 25.7% | Improved training of end-to-end attention models for speech recognition | Interspeech, Sept 2018 | encoder-attention-decoder end-to-end model, trained on 300h SWB |
| WER RT-02 | WER RT-03 | WER RT-04 | Paper | Published | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1% | 8.0% | The CAPIO 2017 Conversational Speech Recognition System | April 2018 | 2 Dense LSTMs + 3 CNN-bLSTMs across 3 phonesets from previous Capio paper & AM adaptation using parameter averaging | |
| 8.2% | 8.1% | 7.7% | Language Modeling with Highway LSTM | September 2017 | HW-LSTM LM trained with Switchboard+Fisher+Gigaword+Broadcast News+Conversations, AM from previous IBM paper |
| 8.3% | 8.0% | 7.7% | English Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition by Humans and Machines | March 2017 | ResNet + BiLSTMs acoustic model, with 40d FMLLR + i-Vector inputs, trained on SWB+Fisher+CH, n-gram + model-M + LSTM + Strided (à trous) convs-based LM trained on Switchboard+Fisher+Gigaword+Broadcast |
| WER | Paper | Published | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.6% | Purely sequence-trained neural networks for ASR based on lattice-free MMI | September 2016 | HMM-BLSTM trained with MMI + data augmentation (speed) + iVectors + 3 regularizations + SWBD |
| 9.8% | Purely sequence-trained neural networks for ASR based on lattice-free MMI | September 2016 | HMM-TDNN trained with MMI + data augmentation (speed) + iVectors + 3 regularizations + SWBD |
| WER Test | Paper | Published | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.6% | The RWTH ASR System for TED-LIUM release 2: Improving Hybrid HMM with SpecAugment | April 2020 | HMM-BLSTM + iVectors + SpecAugment + sMBR + Transformer LM |
| 6.5% | The CAPIO 2017 Conversational Speech Recognition System | April 2018 | TDNN + TDNN-LSTM + CNN-bLSTM + Dense TDNN-LSTM across two kinds of trees |
| 11.2% | Purely sequence-trained neural networks for ASR based on lattice-free MMI | September 2016 | HMM-TDNN trained with LF-MMI + data augmentation (speed perturbation) + iVectors + 3 regularizations |
| 15.3% | TED-LIUM: an Automatic Speech Recognition dedicated corpus | May 2014 | Multi-layer perceptron (MLP) with bottle-neck feature extraction |
| WER (fixed LM) | WER (unlimited LM) | Paper | Published | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31.0% | 30.5% | The USTC-NELSLIP Systems for CHiME-6 Challenge | May 2020 | WPE + SSA + GSS + Data Augment (Speed, Volume) + SpecAugment + 8 AMs fusion (2 Single-feature AM + 6 Multi-feature AM) |
| 35.1% | 34.5% | The IOA Systems for CHiME-6 Challenge | May 2020 | WPE + multi-stage GSS + SpecAugment + Data Augment (Noise, Reverberation, Speed) + 3 AMs fusion (CNN-TDNNF / CNN-TDNN-BLSTM / CNN-BLSTM) |
| 35.8% | 33.9% | The STC System for the CHiME-6 Challenge | May 2020 | WPE + GSS + SpecAugment + 3 AMs fusion ( 2 TDNN-F / CNN-TDNNF + stats + SpecAugment + self-attention + sMBR) + MBR Decoding |
| 51.3% | 51.3% | CHiME-6 Challenge: Tackling Multispeaker Speech Recognition for Unsegmented Recordings | May 2020 | WPE + GSS + Data Augment (Noise, Reverberation, Speed) + TDNNF |
| clean | real | sim | Paper | Published | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.34% | 21.79% | 45.05% | Deep Speech 2: End-to-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin | December 2015 | 9-layer model w/ 2 layers of 2D-invariant convolution & 7 recurrent layers, w/ 68M parameters |
| 6.30% | 67.94% | 80.27% | Deep Speech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition | December, 2014 | CNN + Bi-RNN + CTC (speech to letters) |
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(So far, all results trained on TIMIT and tested on the core test set.)
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- WER: word error rate
- PER: phone error rate
- LM: language model
- HMM: hidden markov model
- GMM: Gaussian mixture model
- DNN: deep neural network
- CNN: convolutional neural network
- DBN: deep belief network (RBM-based DNN)
- TDNN-F: a factored form of time delay neural networks (TDNN)
- RNN: recurrent neural network
- LSTM: long short-term memory
- CTC: connectionist temporal classification
- MMI: maximum mutual information (MMI),
- MPE: minimum phone error
- sMBR: state-level minimum Bayes risk
- SAT: speaker adaptive training
- MLLR: maximum likelihood linear regression
- LDA: (in this context) linear discriminant analysis
- MFCC: Mel frequency cepstral coefficients
- FB/FBANKS/MFSC: Mel frequency spectral coefficients
- IFCC: Instantaneous frequency cosine coefficients (https://github.com/siplabiith/IFCC-Feature-Extraction)
- VGG: very deep convolutional neural networks from Visual Graphics Group, VGG is an architecture of 2 {3x3 convolutions} followed by 1 pooling, repeated