Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
mWhisper-Flamingo for Multilingual Audio-Visual Noise-Robust Speech Recognition |
| Authors: |
Rouditchenko, Andrew, Thomas, Samuel, Kuehne, Hilde, Feris, Rogerio, Glass, James |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
Computer Science |
| Subject Terms: |
Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing, Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Science - Sound |
| More Details: |
Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) combines lip-based video with audio and can improve performance in noise, but most methods are trained only on English data. One limitation is the lack of large-scale multilingual video data, which makes it hard hard to train models from scratch. In this work, we propose mWhisper-Flamingo for multilingual AVSR which combines the strengths of a pre-trained audio model (Whisper) and video model (AV-HuBERT). To enable better multi-modal integration and improve the noisy multilingual performance, we introduce decoder modality dropout where the model is trained both on paired audio-visual inputs and separate audio/visual inputs. mWhisper-Flamingo achieves state-of-the-art WER on MuAViC, an AVSR dataset of 9 languages. Audio-visual mWhisper-Flamingo consistently outperforms audio-only Whisper on all languages in noisy conditions. |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01547 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.2502.01547 |
| Database: |
arXiv |
