SpeechIO ASR leaderboard

1. Overview

"If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it." -- Peter Drucker

Regarding to the field of Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) today, people often claim there systems to be SOTA, in research papers, in industrial PR articles etc. The claim of SOTA is not as informative as one might expect, because:

• For industry, there is no objective and quantative benchmark on how these commercial APIs perform in real-life scenarios, at least in public domain.
• For academia, it is becoming harder today to compare ASR models due to the fragmentation of research toolkits and ecosystem.
• How are academic SOTA and industrial SOTA related ?

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As above figure shows, SpeechIO leaderboard serves as an ASR benchmarking platform, by providing 3 components:

1. TestSet Zoo: A collection of test sets covering wide range of speech recognition scenarios
2. Model Zoo: A collection of models including commercial APIs and open-sourced pretrained models
3. an open benchmarking pipeline:
   • defines a simplest-possible specification on recognition interface, the format of input test sets, the format of output recognition results.
   • As long as model submitters conform to this specification, a fully automated pipeline will take care of the rest (e.g. data preparation -> recognition invocation -> text post processing -> WER/CER/SER evaluation)

With SpeechIO leaderboard, anyone can benchmark/reproduce/compare performances with arbitrary combinations between test-set zoo and model zoo, by simply filling a request form example form

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2. TestSet Zoo

2.1 Open-Sourced Test Sets

Collected from all sorts of open-sourced datasets

List of Open-Sourced Test Sets (ZH)

编号 TEST_SET_ID	说明 DESCRIPTION
AISHELL-1_TEST	test set of AISHELL-1
AISHELL-2_IOS_TEST	test set of AISHELL-2 (iOS channel)
AISHELL-2_ANDROID_TEST	test set of AISHELL-2 (Android channel)
AISHELL-2_MIC_TEST	test set of AISHELL-2 (Microphone channel)

2.2 SpeechIO Test Sets

Carefully curated by SpeechIO authors, crawled from publicly available sources (Youtube, TV programs, Podcast etc), covering various well-known acoustic scenarios(AM) and content domains(LM & vocabulary), labeled by professional annotators.

List of SpeechIO Test Sets (ZH)

编号 TEST_SET_ID	名称 Name	场景 Scenario	内容领域 Topic Domain	时长 hours	难度(1-5) Difficulty
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00000	接入调试集 For leaderboard submitter debugging	视频会议、论坛演讲 video conference & forum speech	经济、货币、金融 economy, currency, finance	1.0	★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00001	新闻联播	新闻播报 TV News	时政 news & politics	9	★
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00002	鲁豫有约	访谈电视节目 TV interview	名人工作/生活 celebrity & film & music & daily	3	★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00003	天下足球	专题电视节目 TV program	足球 Sports & Football & Worldcup	2.7	★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00004	罗振宇跨年演讲	会场演讲 Stadium Public Speech	社会、人文、商业 Society & Culture & Business Trend	2.7	★★
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00005	李永乐老师在线讲堂	在线教育 Online Education	科普 Popular Science	4.4	★★★
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00006	张大仙 & 骚白 王者荣耀直播	直播 Live Broadcasting	游戏 Game	1.6	★★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00007	李佳琪 & 薇娅 直播带货	直播 Live Broadcasting	电商、美妆 Makeup & Online shopping/advertising	0.9	★★★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00008	老罗语录	线下培训 Offline lecture	段子、做人 Life & Purpose & Ethics	1.3	★★★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00009	故事FM	播客 Podcast	人生故事、见闻 Ordinary Life Story Telling	4.5	★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00010	创业内幕	播客 Podcast	创业、产品、投资 Startup & Enterprenuer & Product & Investment	4.2	★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00011	罗翔 刑法法考培训讲座	在线教育 Online Education	法律 法考 Law & Lawyer Qualification Exams	3.4	★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00012	张雪峰 考研线上小讲堂	在线教育 Online Education	考研 高校报考 University & Graduate School Entrance Exams	3.4	★★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00013	谷阿莫&牛叔说电影	短视频 VLog	电影剪辑 Movie Cuts	1.8	★★★
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00014	贫穷料理 & 琼斯爱生活	短视频 VLog	美食、烹饪 Food & Cooking & Gourmet	1	★★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00015	单田芳 白眉大侠	评书 Traditional Podcast	江湖、武侠 Kongfu Fiction	2.2	★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00016	德云社相声演出	剧场相声 Theater Crosstalk Show	包袱段子 Funny Stories	1	★★★
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00017	吐槽大会	脱口秀电视节目 Standup Comedy	明星糗事 Celebrity Jokes	1.8	★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00018	小猪佩奇 & 熊出没	少儿动画 Children Cartoon	童话故事、日常 Fairy Tale	0.9	★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00019	CCTV5 NBA 比赛转播	体育赛事解说 Sports Game Live	篮球、NBA NBA Game	0.7	★★★
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00020	篮球人物	纪录片 Documentary	篮球明星、成长 NBA Super Stars' Life & History	2.2	★★
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00021	汽车之家 车辆评测	短视频 VLog	汽车测评 Car benchmarks, Road driving test	1.7	★★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00022	小艾大叔 豪宅带看	短视频 VLog	房地产、豪宅 Realestate, Mansion tour	1.7	★★★
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00023	无聊开箱 & Zealer评测	短视频 VLog	产品开箱评测 Unboxing	2	★★★
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00024	付老师种植技术	短视频 VLog	农业、种植 Agriculture, Planting	2.7	★★★☆
SPEECHIO_ASR_ZH00025	石国鹏讲古希腊哲学	线下培训 Offline lecture	历史，古希腊哲学 History, Greek philosophy	1.3	★★☆

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3. Model Zoo

Commercial API (ZH)

编号 MODEL_ID	类型 type	模型作者/所有人 model author/owner	简介 description	链接 url
aispeech_api	Cloud API	思必驰 AISpeech	思必驰开放平台	https://cloud.aispeech.com
aliyun_api	Cloud API	阿里巴巴 Alibaba	阿里云	https://ai.aliyun.com/nls/asr
baidu_pro_api	Cloud API	百度 Baidu	百度智能云(极速版)	https://cloud.baidu.com/product/speech/asr
	Cloud API	讯飞 IFlyTek	讯飞开放平台(听写服务)	https://www.xfyun.cn/services/voicedictation
microsoft_api	Cloud API	微软 Microsoft	Azure	https://azure.microsoft.com/zh-cn/services/cognitive-services/speech-services/
sogou_api	Cloud API	搜狗 Sogou	AI开放平台	https://ai.sogou.com/product/one_recognition/
tencent_api	Cloud API	腾讯 Tencent	腾讯云	https://cloud.tencent.com/product/asr
yitu_api	Cloud API	依图 YituTech	依图语音开放平台	https://speech.yitutech.com

Open-Sourced Pretrained Models (ZH)

编号 MODEL_ID	类型 type	模型作者/所有人 model author/owner	简介 description	链接 url
speechio_kaldi_multicn	pretrained ASR model	那兴宇 Xingyu NA	Kaldi预训练模型 Kaldi pretrained ASR	based on Kaldi recipe https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi/tree/master/egs/multi_cn/s5

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4. Benchmarking Pipeline Specification

Follow submission guideline here HOW_TO_SUBMIT.md to submit your own model and get your model benchmarked.

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5. Latest Leaderboard Report

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Contacts

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