  In this paper, we study training of automatic speech recognition system in a
weakly supervised setting where the order of words in transcript labels of the
audio training data is not known. We train a word-level acoustic model which
aggregates the distribution of all output frames using LogSumExp operation and
uses a cross-entropy loss to match with the ground-truth words distribution.
Using the pseudo-labels generated from this model on the training set, we then
train a letter-based acoustic model using Connectionist Temporal Classification
loss. Our system achieves 2.3%/4.6% on test-clean/test-other subsets of
LibriSpeech, which closely matches with the supervised baseline's performance.

Audio and Speech Processing;Computation and Language;Sound