NVIDIA Neural Modules 1.2.0

Added

• Improve performance of speak clustering (#2445)
• Update Conformer for ONNX conversion (#2439)
• Mean and length normalization for better embeddings speaker verification and diarization (#2397)
• FastEmit RNNT Loss Numba for reducing latency (#2374)
• Multiple datasets, right to left models, noisy channel re-ranking, ensembling for NMT (#2379)
• Byte level tokenization (#2365)
• Bottleneck with attention bridge for more efficient NMT training (#2390)
• Tutorial notebook for NMT data cleaning and preprocessing (#2467)
• Streaming Conformer inference script for long audio files (#2373)
• Res2Net Ecapa equivalent implementation for speaker verification and diarization (#2468)
• Update end-to-end tutorial notebook to use CitriNet (#2457)

Contributors

@nithinraok @tango4j @jbalam-nv @titu1994 @MaximumEntropy @mchrzanowski @michalivne @jbalam-nv @fayejf @okuchaiev

(some contributors may not be listed explicitly)

Known Issues

• import nemo.collections.nlp as nemo_nlp will result in an error. This will be patched in the upcoming version. Please try to import the individual files as a work-around.