{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "17b3cbf8", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Context-Biasing for ASR models with CTC-based Word Spotter" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "1156d1d1", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "This tutorial aims to show how to improve the recognition accuracy of specific words in NeMo Framework\n", "for CTC and Trasducer (RNN-T) ASR models by using the fast context-biasing method with CTC-based Word Spotter.\n", "\n", "## Tutorial content:\n", "* Intro in the context-biasing problem\n", "* Description of the proposed CTC-based Words Spotter (CTC-WS) method\n", "* Practical part 1 (base):\n", " * Download data set and ASR models\n", " * Build context-biasing list\n", " * Evaluate recognition results with and without context-biasing\n", " * Improve context-biasing results with alternative transcriptions\n", "* Practical part 2 (advanced):\n", " * Visualization of context-biasing graph\n", " * Running CTC-based Word Spotter only\n", " * Merge greedy decoding results with spotted context-biasing candidates\n", " * Results analysis\n", "* Summary" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "431edfbf", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Context-biasing: intro\n", "\n", "ASR models often struggle to recognize words that were absent or had few examples in the training data.\n", "This problem is especially acute due to the emergence of new names and titles in a rapidly developing world.\n", "The users need to be able to recognize these new words.\n", "Context-biasing methods attempt to solve this problem by assuming that we have a list of words and phrases (context-biasing list) in advance\n", "for which we want to improve recognition accuracy.\n", "\n", "One of the directions of context-biasing methods is based on the `deep fusion` approach.\n", "These methods require intervention into the ASR model and its training process.\n", "The main disadvantage of these methods is that they require a lot of computational resources and time to train the model.\n", "\n", "Another direction is methods based on the `shallow fusion` approach. In this case, only the decoding process is modified.\n", "During the beam-search decoding, the hypothesis is rescored depending on whether the current word is present in the context-biasing list or external language model.\n", "The beam-search decoding may be computationally expensive, especially for the models with a large vocabulary and context-biasing list.\n", "This problem is considerably worsened in the case of the Transducer (RNN-T) model since beam-search decoding involves multiple Decoder (Prediction) and Joint networks calculations.\n", "Moreover, the context-biasing recognition is limited by the model prediction pool biased toward training data. In the case of rare or new words, the model may not have a hypothesis for the desired word from the context-biasing list whose probability we want to amplify." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "ae0bfd60", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## CTC-based Word Spotter\n", "\n", "\n", "This tutorial considers a fast context-biasing method using a CTC-based Word Spotter (CTC-WS).\n", "The method involves decoding CTC log probabilities with a context graph built for words and phrases from the context-biasing list.\n", "The spotted context-biasing candidates (with their scores and time intervals) are compared by scores with words from the greedy\n", "CTC decoding results to improve recognition accuracy and pretend false accepts of context-biasing (Figure 1). \n", " \n", " \n", "\n", "\n", "\n" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "c7e45bf2", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "
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Figure 1. High-level representation of the proposed context-biasing method with CTC-WS in case of CTC model. Detected words (gpu, nvidia, cuda) are compared with words from the greedy CTC results in the overlapping intervals according to the accumulated scores to prevent false accept replacement.
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" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "ba163f41", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "\n", "\n", " \n", "A [Hybrid Transducer-CTC](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17279) model (a shared encoder trained together with CTC and Transducer output heads) enables the use of the CTC-WS method for the Transducer model.\n", "Context-biasing candidates obtained by CTC-WS are also filtered by the scores with greedy CTC predictions and then merged with greedy Transducer results.\n", "\n", "The CTC-WS method allows using pretrained NeMo models (`CTC` or `Hybrid Transducer-CTC`) for context-biasing recognition without model retraining (Figure 2).\n", "The method shows inspired results for context-biasing with only a little additional work time and computational resources.\n", "\n" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "c05b16d8", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "
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Figure 2. Scheme of the context-biasing method with CTC-based Word Spotter. CTC-WS uses CTC log probabilities to detect context-biasing candidates. Obtained candidates are filtered by CTC word alignment and then merged with CTC or RNN-T word alignment to get the final text result.
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" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "ac0ec822", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Installing dependencies" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "69c86a4f", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "BRANCH = 'main'\n", "\n", "\"\"\"\n", "You can run either this notebook locally (if you have all the dependencies and a GPU) or on Google Colab.\n", "\n", "Instructions for setting up Colab are as follows:\n", "1. Open a new Python 3 notebook.\n", "2. Import this notebook from GitHub (File -> Upload Notebook -> \"GITHUB\" tab -> copy/paste GitHub URL)\n", "3. Connect to an instance with a GPU (Runtime -> Change runtime type -> select \"GPU\" for hardware accelerator)\n", "4. Run this cell to set up dependencies.\n", "\"\"\"\n", "\n", "import os\n", "# either provide a path to local NeMo repository with NeMo already installed or git clone\n", "\n", "# option #1: local path to NeMo repo with NeMo already installed\n", "NEMO_DIR_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath('')))\n", "\n", "# check if Google Colab is being used\n", "try:\n", " import google.colab\n", " IN_COLAB = True\n", "except (ImportError, ModuleNotFoundError):\n", " IN_COLAB = False\n", "\n", "# option #2: download NeMo repo\n", "if IN_COLAB or not os.path.exists(os.path.join(NEMO_DIR_PATH, \"nemo\")):\n", " ## Install dependencies\n", " !apt-get install sox libsndfile1 ffmpeg\n", "\n", " !git clone -b $BRANCH https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo\n", " %cd NeMo\n", " !python -m pip install git+https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo.git@$BRANCH#egg=nemo_toolkit[all]\n", " NEMO_DIR_PATH = os.path.abspath('')\n", "\n", "import sys\n", "sys.path.insert(0, NEMO_DIR_PATH)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "5260d4fa", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Practical part 1 (base)\n", "In this part, we will consider the base usage of the CTC-WS method for pretrained NeMo models.\n", "\n", "### Data preparation.\n", "We will use a subset of the GTC data set. The data set contains 10 audio files with NVIDIA GTC talks. \n", "The primary data set feature is the computer science and engineering domain, which has a large number of unique terms and product names (NVIDIA, GPU, GeForce, Ray Tracing, Omniverse, teraflops, etc.), which is good fit for the context-biasing task. All the text data is normalized and lowercased." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "637f2c6d", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# download data\n", "!wget https://asr-tutorial-data.s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com/context_biasing_data.gz\n", "!tar -xvzf context_biasing_data.gz\n", "!apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get install tree" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "6baefc80", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "!tree context_biasing_data" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "09fe748b", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "from nemo.collections.asr.parts.utils.manifest_utils import read_manifest\n", "\n", "# data is already stored in nemo data manifest format\n", "test_nemo_manifest = \"./context_biasing_data/gtc_data_subset_10f.json\"\n", "test_data = read_manifest(test_nemo_manifest)\n", "\n", "for idx, item in enumerate(test_data):\n", " print(f\"[{idx}]: {item['text']}\")" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "64ab4764", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "import librosa\n", "import IPython.display as ipd\n", "\n", "# load and listen to the audio file example\n", "example_file = test_data[0]['audio_filepath']\n", "audio, sample_rate = librosa.load(example_file)\n", "\n", "file_id = 0\n", "print(f\"[TEXT {file_id}]: {test_data[file_id]['text']}\\n\")\n", "ipd.Audio(example_file, rate=sample_rate)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "a85ea8ec", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "### Load ASR models\n", "\n", "For testing the CTC-WS method, we will use the following NeMo models:\n", " - (CTC): [stt_en_fastconformer_ctc_large](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/stt_en_fastconformer_ctc_large) - a large fast-conformer model trained on English ASR data\n", " - (Hybrid Transducer-CTC): [stt_en_fastconformer_hybrid_large_streaming_multi](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/stt_en_fastconformer_hybrid_large_streaming_multi) - a large fast-conformer model trained jointly with CTC and Transducer heads on English ASR data. The model is streaming, which means it can process audio in real time. It can cause a slight WER degradation in comparison with the first offline model." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "d34ee0ba", "metadata": { "scrolled": true }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "from nemo.collections.asr.models import EncDecCTCModelBPE, EncDecHybridRNNTCTCBPEModel\n", "\n", "# ctc model\n", "ctc_model_name = \"stt_en_fastconformer_ctc_large\"\n", "ctc_model = EncDecCTCModelBPE.from_pretrained(model_name=ctc_model_name)\n", "\n", "# hybrid transducer-ctc model\n", "hybrid_ctc_rnnt_model_name = \"stt_en_fastconformer_hybrid_large_streaming_multi\"" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "082208cd", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "### Transcribe \n", "Let's transcribe test data and analyze the regontion accuracy of specific words " ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "74436885", "metadata": { "scrolled": true }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "test_audio_files = [item['audio_filepath'] for item in test_data]\n", "recog_results = ctc_model.transcribe(test_audio_files)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "b993d650", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "### Compute per-word recognition statisctic" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "70f5714b", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "from kaldialign import align\n", "\n", "word_dict = {} # {word: [num_of_occurances, num_of_correct_recognition]}\n", "eps = \"\"\n", "ref_text = [item['text'] for item in test_data]\n", "\n", "for idx, ref in enumerate(ref_text):\n", " ref = ref.split()\n", " hyp = recog_results[idx].text.split()\n", " ali = align(ref, hyp, eps)\n", "\n", " for pair in ali:\n", " word_ref, word_hyp = pair\n", " if word_ref == eps:\n", " continue\n", " if word_ref in word_dict:\n", " word_dict[word_ref][0] += 1\n", " else:\n", " word_dict[word_ref] = [1, 0]\n", " if word_ref == word_hyp:\n", " word_dict[word_ref][1] += 1\n", "\n", "word_candidats = {}\n", "\n", "for word in word_dict:\n", " gt = word_dict[word][0]\n", " tp = word_dict[word][1]\n", " if tp/gt < 1.0:\n", " word_candidats[word] = [gt, round(tp/gt, 2)]\n", " \n", "# print obtained per-word statistic\n", "word_candidats_sorted = sorted(word_candidats.items(), key=lambda x:x[1][0], reverse=True)\n", "max_word_len = max([len(x[0]) for x in word_candidats_sorted])\n", "for item in word_candidats_sorted:\n", " print(f\"{item[0]:<{max_word_len}} {item[1][0]}/{item[1][1]}\")" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "27a9f88b", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Create a context-biasing list\n", "\n", "Now, we need to select the words, recognition of which we want to improve by CTC-WS context-biasing.\n", "Usually, we select only nontrivial words with the lowest recognition accuracy.\n", "Such words should have a character length >= 3 because short words in a context-biasing list may produce high false-positive recognition.\n", "In this toy example, we will select all the words that look like names with a recognition accuracy less than 1.0.\n", "\n", "The structure of the context-biasing file is:\n", "\n", "WORD1_TRANSCRIPTION1 \n", "WORD2_TRANSCRIPTION1 \n", "...\n", "\n", "TRANSCRIPTION here is a word spelling. We need this structure to add alternative transcriptions (spellings) for some word. We will cover such a case further." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "c27848f0", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "cb_words = [\"gpu\", \"nvidia\", \"nvidia's\", \"nvlink\", \"omniverse\", \"cunumeric\", \"numpy\", \"dgx\", \"dgxs\", \"dlss\",\n", " \"cpu\", \"tsmc\", \"culitho\", \"xlabs\", \"tensorrt\", \"tensorflow\", \"pytorch\", \"aws\", \"chatgpt\", \"pcie\"]\n", "\n", "# write context-biasing file \n", "cb_list_file = \"context_biasing_data/context_biasing_list.txt\"\n", "with open(cb_list_file, \"w\", encoding=\"utf-8\") as fn:\n", " for word in cb_words:\n", " fn.write(f\"{word}_{word}\\n\")" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "b0e8c800", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "!cat {cb_list_file}" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "c44fc910", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Run context-biasing evaluation\n", "\n", "The main script for CTC-WS context-biasing in NeMo is:\\\n", "`{NEMO_DIR_PATH}/scripts/asr_context_biasing/eval_greedy_decoding_with_context_biasing.py`\n", "\n", "Context-biasing is managed by `apply_context_biasing` parameter [true or false]. \n", "Other important context-biasing parameters are:\n", "- `beam_threshold` - threshold for CTC-WS beam pruning\n", "- `context_score` - per token weight for context biasing\n", "- `ctc_ali_token_weight` - per token weight for CTC alignment (prevents false acceptances of context-biasing words) \n", "\n", "All the context-biasing parameters are selected according to the default values in the script. \n", "You can tune them according to your data and ASR model (list all the values in the [] separated by commas) \n", "for example: `beam_threshold=[7.0,8.0,9.0]`, `context_score=[3.0,4.0,5.0]`, `ctc_ali_token_weight=[0.5,0.6,0.7]`. \n", "The script will run the recognition with all the combinations of the parameters and will select the best one based on WER value." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "9a2d32e9", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# create directory with experimental results\n", "import os\n", "\n", "exp_dir = \"exp\"\n", "if not os.path.isdir(exp_dir):\n", " os.makedirs(exp_dir)\n", "else:\n", " print(f\"Directory '{exp_dir}' already exists\")" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "116f2abe", "metadata": { "scrolled": true }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# ctc model (no context-biasing)\n", "\n", "!python {NEMO_DIR_PATH}/scripts/asr_context_biasing/eval_greedy_decoding_with_context_biasing.py \\\n", " nemo_model_file={ctc_model_name} \\\n", " input_manifest={test_nemo_manifest} \\\n", " preds_output_folder={exp_dir} \\\n", " decoder_type=\"ctc\" \\\n", " acoustic_batch_size=64 \\\n", " apply_context_biasing=false \\\n", " context_file={cb_list_file} \\\n", " beam_threshold=[7.0] \\\n", " context_score=[3.0] \\\n", " ctc_ali_token_weight=[0.5]" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "674d0af1", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "The results must be:\n", "\n", "`Precision`: 1.0000 (1/1) fp:0 (fp - false positive recognition) \n", "`Recall`: 0.0333 (1/30) \n", "`Fscore`: 0.0645 \n", "`Greedy WER/CER` = 35.68%/8.16%\n", "\n", "The model could recognize 1 out of 30 words from the context-biasing list.\n", "Let's enable context-biasing during decoding:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "239da41d", "metadata": { "scrolled": true }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# ctc model (with context biasing)\n", "!python {NEMO_DIR_PATH}/scripts/asr_context_biasing/eval_greedy_decoding_with_context_biasing.py \\\n", " nemo_model_file={ctc_model_name} \\\n", " input_manifest={test_nemo_manifest} \\\n", " preds_output_folder={exp_dir} \\\n", " decoder_type=\"ctc\" \\\n", " acoustic_batch_size=64 \\\n", " apply_context_biasing=true \\\n", " context_file={cb_list_file} \\\n", " beam_threshold=[7.0] \\\n", " context_score=[3.0] \\\n", " ctc_ali_token_weight=[0.5]" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "faa1e73c", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Now, recognition results are much better:\n", "\n", "`Precision`: 1.0000 (21/21) fp:0 \n", "`Recall`: 0.7000 (21/30) \n", "`Fscore`: 0.8235 \n", "`Greedy WER/CER` = 17.09%/4.43%\n", "\n", "But we are still able to recognize only 21 out of 30 specific words.\\\n", "You can see that unrecognized words are mostly abbreviations (`dgxs`, `dlss`, `gpu`, `aws`, etc.) or compound words (`culitho`).\\\n", "The ASR models tends to recognize such words as a sequence of characters (`\"aws\" -> \"a w s\"`) or subwords (`\"culitho\" -> \"cu litho\"`).\\\n", "We can try to improve the recognition of such words by adding alternative transcriptions to the context-biasing list." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "d72b6391", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "### Alternative transcriptions\n", "\n", "wordninja is used to split compound words into simple words according to the default word dictionary." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "f7e00263", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "!pip install wordninja" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "46fe91e9", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "import wordninja\n", "\n", "cb_list_file_modified = cb_list_file + \".abbr_and_ninja\"\n", "\n", "with open(cb_list_file, \"r\", encoding=\"utf-8\") as fn1, \\\n", " open(cb_list_file_modified, \"w\", encoding=\"utf-8\") as fn2:\n", "\n", " for line in fn1:\n", " word = line.strip().split(\"_\")[0]\n", " new_line = f\"{word}_{word}\"\n", " # split all the short words into characters\n", " if len(word) <= 4 and len(word.split()) == 1:\n", " abbr = ' '.join(list(word))\n", " new_line += f\"_{abbr}\"\n", " # split the long words into the simple words (not for phrases)\n", " new_segmentation = wordninja.split(word)\n", " if word != new_segmentation[0]:\n", " new_segmentation = ' '.join(new_segmentation)\n", " new_line += f\"_{new_segmentation}\"\n", " fn2.write(f\"{new_line}\\n\")" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "da69da45", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "!cat {cb_list_file_modified}" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "4a21cbf4", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Run context-biasing with modified context-biasing list:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "913a0f5e", "metadata": { "scrolled": true }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# ctc models (with context biasing and modified cb list)\n", "!python {NEMO_DIR_PATH}/scripts/asr_context_biasing/eval_greedy_decoding_with_context_biasing.py \\\n", " nemo_model_file={ctc_model_name} \\\n", " input_manifest={test_nemo_manifest} \\\n", " preds_output_folder={exp_dir} \\\n", " decoder_type=\"ctc\" \\\n", " acoustic_batch_size=64 \\\n", " apply_context_biasing=true \\\n", " context_file={cb_list_file_modified} \\\n", " beam_threshold=[7.0] \\\n", " context_score=[3.0] \\\n", " ctc_ali_token_weight=[0.5]" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "654751ed", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Now, the recognition results are:\n", "\n", "`Precision`: 1.0000 (28/28) fp:1 \n", "`Recall`: 0.9333 (28/30) \n", "`Fscore`: 0.9655 \n", "`Greedy WER/CER` = 7.04%/2.93%\n", "\n", "As you can see, that adding alternative transcriptions to the cb_list file improved the recognition accuracy of the context-biasing words. However, we still miss 2 words. Unfortunately, this algorithm is not a silver bullet.\n", "\n", "In some cases, you can improve results by adding alternative transcriptions manually based on the recognition errors of your ASR model for the specific words (for example, `\"nvidia\" -> \"n video\"`). " ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "b96c4023", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "### Hybrid Transducer-CTC model\n", "The CTC-WS context-biasing method for Transducer (RNN-T) models is supported only for Hybrid Transducer-CTC model. \n", "To use Transducer head of the Hybrid Transducer-CTC model, we need to set `decoder_type=\"rnnt\"`. \n", "Other parameters are the same as for the CTC model because the context-biasing is applied only on the CTC part of the model. Spotted context-biasing words will have been merged with greedy decoding results of the Transducer head.\n", "\n", "We can use already prepared context-biasing list because the CTC and Hybrid Transducer-CTC models have almost the same BPE tokenizer." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "456e47df", "metadata": { "scrolled": true }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# Transducer model (no context-biasing)\n", "!python {NEMO_DIR_PATH}/scripts/asr_context_biasing/eval_greedy_decoding_with_context_biasing.py \\\n", " nemo_model_file={hybrid_ctc_rnnt_model_name} \\\n", " input_manifest={test_nemo_manifest} \\\n", " preds_output_folder={exp_dir} \\\n", " decoder_type=\"rnnt\" \\\n", " acoustic_batch_size=64 \\\n", " apply_context_biasing=false \\\n", " context_file={cb_list_file_modified} \\\n", " beam_threshold=[7.0] \\\n", " context_score=[3.0] \\\n", " ctc_ali_token_weight=[0.5]" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "773e11f1", "metadata": { "scrolled": true }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# Transducer model (with context-biasing)\n", "!python {NEMO_DIR_PATH}/scripts/asr_context_biasing/eval_greedy_decoding_with_context_biasing.py \\\n", " nemo_model_file={hybrid_ctc_rnnt_model_name} \\\n", " input_manifest={test_nemo_manifest} \\\n", " preds_output_folder={exp_dir} \\\n", " decoder_type=\"rnnt\" \\\n", " acoustic_batch_size=64 \\\n", " apply_context_biasing=true \\\n", " context_file={cb_list_file_modified} \\\n", " beam_threshold=[7.0] \\\n", " context_score=[3.0] \\\n", " ctc_ali_token_weight=[0.5]" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "45a91385", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "CTC-WS context-biasing works for Transducer model as well as for CTC (`F-score improvenment: 0.3784 -> 0.9286`). Differences in the nature of offline and online models may cause differences in results (usually, online models have a tendency to predict tokens earlier what can affect the difference between the timestamps of CTC and RNN-T models). " ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "1968e7bc", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Practical part 2 (advanced)\n", "In this section, we will consider the context-biasing process more deeply:\n", "- Visualization of the context-biasing graph\n", "- Running CTC-WS with the context-biasing graph\n", "- Merge the obtained spotted words with greedy decoding results\n", "- Analysis of the results" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "277104b5", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "### Build a context graph (for visualization only)\n", "The context graph consists of a composition of a prefix tree (Trie) with the CTC transition topology for words and phrases from the context-biasing list. We use a BPE tokenizer from the target ASR model for word segmentation." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "55a36a27-919c-4d64-9163-b0b2c9dca15e", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# install graphviz from source in case of local run (not Google Colab)\n", "# this may take about 5-10 minutes\n", "# make sure that env variables have been set\n", "\n", "if not IN_COLAB:\n", "\n", " os.environ['DEBIAN_FRONTEND'] = 'noninteractive'\n", " os.environ['TZ'] = 'Etc/UTC'\n", "\n", " !echo $DEBIAN_FRONTEND\n", " !echo $TZ\n", "\n", " !{NEMO_DIR_PATH}/scripts/installers/install_graphviz.sh" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "904ea41b", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "from nemo.collections.asr.parts import context_biasing\n", "\n", "# get bpe tokenization\n", "cb_words_small = [\"nvidia\", \"gpu\", \"nvlink\", \"numpy\"]\n", "context_transcripts = []\n", "for word in cb_words_small:\n", " # use text_to_tokens method for viasualization only\n", " word_tokenization = ctc_model.tokenizer.text_to_tokens(word)\n", " print(f\"{word}: {word_tokenization}\")\n", " context_transcripts.append([word, [word_tokenization]])\n", "\n", "# build context graph\n", "context_graph = context_biasing.ContextGraphCTC(blank_id=\"⊘\")\n", "context_graph.add_to_graph(context_transcripts)" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "f7fab1e1", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "context_graph.draw()" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "04a6f4be", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "### Build a real context graph (for decoding)" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "2ba2d8a1", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# get bpe tokenization\n", "context_transcripts = []\n", "for word in cb_words:\n", " word_tokenization = [ctc_model.tokenizer.text_to_ids(x) for x in word]\n", " context_transcripts.append([word, word_tokenization])\n", "\n", "# build context graph\n", "context_graph = context_biasing.ContextGraphCTC(blank_id=ctc_model.decoding.blank_id)\n", "context_graph.add_to_graph(context_transcripts)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "71e0e86b", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "### Run CTC-based Word Spotter\n", "\n", "The CTC-WS task is to search for words by decoding CTC log probabilities using the context graph. As a result, we obtain a list of detected words with exact start/end frames in the audio file and their overall scores. The relatively small size of the context graph and hypotheses pruning methods allow this algorithm to work very quickly." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "7c2c942e-e8df-4c09-a7de-87606ae453c9", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "%pip install --upgrade jupyter ipywidgets" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "f2bc370b", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "import torch\n", "from tqdm import tqdm\n", "\n", "# get ctc logprobs\n", "audio_file_paths = [item['audio_filepath'] for item in test_data]\n", "\n", "with torch.no_grad():\n", " ctc_model.eval()\n", " ctc_model.encoder.freeze()\n", " device = next(ctc_model.parameters()).device\n", " hyp_results = ctc_model.transcribe(audio_file_paths, batch_size=10, return_hypotheses=True)\n", " ctc_logprobs = [hyp.alignments.cpu().numpy() for hyp in hyp_results]\n", " blank_idx = ctc_model.decoding.blank_id\n", " \n", "# run ctc-based word spotter\n", "ws_results = {}\n", "for idx, logits in tqdm(\n", " enumerate(ctc_logprobs), desc=f\"Eval CTC-based Word Spotter...\", total=len(ctc_logprobs)\n", "):\n", " ws_results[audio_file_paths[idx]] = context_biasing.run_word_spotter(\n", " logits,\n", " context_graph,\n", " ctc_model,\n", " blank_idx=blank_idx,\n", " beam_threshold=7.0,\n", " cb_weight=3.0,\n", " ctc_ali_token_weight=0.5,\n", " )" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "4bd6645c", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# print CTC-WS hypotheses for the first audio file\n", "ws_results[audio_file_paths[0]]" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "245a66f0", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "### Merge CTC-WS words with greedy CTC decoding results\n", "\n", "Use `print_stats=True` to get more information about spotted words and greedy CTC word alignment." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "423b2b9e", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "import numpy as np\n", "\n", "target_transcripts = [item['text'] for item in test_data]\n", "\n", "# merge spotted words with greedy results\n", "for idx, logprobs in enumerate(ctc_logprobs):\n", " greedy_predicts = np.argmax(logprobs, axis=1)\n", " if ws_results[audio_file_paths[idx]]:\n", " # make new text by mearging alignment with ctc-ws predictions:\n", " print(\"\\n\" + \"********\" * 10)\n", " print(f\"File name: {audio_file_paths[idx]}\")\n", " pred_text, raw_text = context_biasing.merge_alignment_with_ws_hyps(\n", " greedy_predicts,\n", " ctc_model,\n", " ws_results[audio_file_paths[idx]],\n", " decoder_type=\"ctc\",\n", " blank_idx=blank_idx,\n", " print_stats=True,\n", " )\n", " print(f\"[raw text]: {raw_text}\")\n", " print(f\"[hyp text]: {pred_text}\")\n", " print(f\"[ref text]: {target_transcripts[idx]}\")\n", " else:\n", " # if no spotted words, use standard greedy predictions\n", " pred_text = ctc_model.wer.decoding.ctc_decoder_predictions_tensor(greedy_predicts)[0].text" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "fb8b5f51", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "In these logs, you can find detailed context-biasing statistics about each audio file:\n", "- Audio file name\n", "- Greedy word alignment\n", "- List of spotted words\n", "- Text results:\n", " - Greedy decoding (raw text)\n", " - Text after applying context-biasing (hyp text)\n", " - Ground truth transcription (ref text)\n", " \n", "These statistics can be helpful in case of problems with context-biasing word recognition. For example, Transducer models sometimes recognize tokens 1-2 frames earlier than CTC models. To solve this problem, you can shift the start frame of the detected word left in the CTC-WS sources." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "11220db2", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Summary\n", "\n", "This tutorial demonstrates how to use the CTC-WS context-biasing technique to improve the recognition accuracy of specific words in the case of CTC and Transducer (RNN-T) ASR models. The tutorial includes the methodology for creating the context-biasing list, improving recognition accuracy of abbreviations and compound words, visualization of the context-biasing process, and results analysis.\n" ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.10.12" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 5 }