{"title":"Utilizing Prior Knowledge to Improve Automatic Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interactive Scenarios","authors":"Pradip Pramanick, Chayan Sarkar","doi":"10.1145/3568294.3580129","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The prolificacy of human-robot interaction not only depends on a robot's ability to understand the intent and content of the human utterance but also gets impacted by the automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. Modern ASR can provide highly accurate (grammatically and syntactically) translation. Yet, the general purpose ASR often misses out on the semantics of the translation by incorrect word prediction due to open-vocabulary modeling. ASR inaccuracy can have significant repercussions as this can lead to a completely different action by the robot in the real world. Can any prior knowledge be helpful in such a scenario? In this work, we explore how prior knowledge can be utilized in ASR decoding. Using our experiments, we demonstrate how our system can significantly improve ASR translation for robotic task instruction.","PeriodicalId":36515,"journal":{"name":"ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580129","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ROBOTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The prolificacy of human-robot interaction not only depends on a robot's ability to understand the intent and content of the human utterance but also gets impacted by the automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. Modern ASR can provide highly accurate (grammatically and syntactically) translation. Yet, the general purpose ASR often misses out on the semantics of the translation by incorrect word prediction due to open-vocabulary modeling. ASR inaccuracy can have significant repercussions as this can lead to a completely different action by the robot in the real world. Can any prior knowledge be helpful in such a scenario? In this work, we explore how prior knowledge can be utilized in ASR decoding. Using our experiments, we demonstrate how our system can significantly improve ASR translation for robotic task instruction.
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ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI) is a prestigious Gold Open Access journal that aspires to lead the field of human-robot interaction as a top-tier, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary publication. The journal prioritizes articles that significantly contribute to the current state of the art, enhance overall knowledge, have a broad appeal, and are accessible to a diverse audience. Submissions are expected to meet a high scholarly standard, and authors are encouraged to ensure their research is well-presented, advancing the understanding of human-robot interaction, adding cutting-edge or general insights to the field, or challenging current perspectives in this research domain.
THRI warmly invites well-crafted paper submissions from a variety of disciplines, encompassing robotics, computer science, engineering, design, and the behavioral and social sciences. The scholarly articles published in THRI may cover a range of topics such as the nature of human interactions with robots and robotic technologies, methods to enhance or enable novel forms of interaction, and the societal or organizational impacts of these interactions. The editorial team is also keen on receiving proposals for special issues that focus on specific technical challenges or that apply human-robot interaction research to further areas like social computing, consumer behavior, health, and education.