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End-to-End ASR

An approach that performs speech-to-text conversion with a single unified network instead of separate acoustic and language models.

End-to-end ASR brings together what was traditionally handled by separate acoustic models, pronunciation lexicons, and language models into a more unified learning framework. This provides advantages in architectural simplicity and large-scale data learning. It has become especially powerful with Transformer- and transducer-based designs. However, in some industries hybrid approaches are still preferred because of explainability, error analysis, and domain-specific vocabulary control.