Comparison and analysis of new curriculum criteria for end-to-end ASR

Georgios Karakasidis, Mikko Kurimo, Peter Bell, Tamás Grósz

Abstract: Highlights•Curriculum learning can improve the performance of end-to-end ASR systems.•A good curriculum strategy can speed up convergence without impacting performance.•Curriculum learning shows benefits in both low and high resource settings.•An adaptive curriculum leads to faster convergence rates than a static curriculum.