Using streaming conformer as transducer encoder (k2-fsa#380)

* support streaming in conformer

* Add more documents

* support streaming on pruned_transducer_stateless2; add delay penalty; fixes for decode states

* Minor fixes

* streaming for pruned_transducer_stateless4

* Fix conv cache error, support async streaming decoding

* Fix style

* Fix style

* Fix style

* Add torch.jit.export

* mask the initial cache

* Cutting off invalid frames of encoder_embed output

* fix relative positional encoding in streaming decoding for compution saving

* Minor fixes

* Minor fixes

* Minor fixes

* Minor fixes

* Minor fixes

* Fix jit export for torch 1.6

* Minor fixes for streaming decoding

* Minor fixes on decode stream

* move model parameters to train.py

* make states in forward streaming optional

* update pretrain to support streaming model

* update results.md

* update tensorboard and pre-models

* fix typo

* Fix tests

* remove unused arguments

* add streaming decoding ci

* Minor fix

* Minor fix

* disable right context by default

.github/scripts/run-librispeech-streaming-pruned-transducer-stateless2-2022-06-26.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+log() {
+  # This function is from espnet
+  local fname=${BASH_SOURCE[1]##*/}
+  echo -e "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') (${fname}:${BASH_LINENO[0]}:${FUNCNAME[1]}) $*"
+}
+
+cd egs/librispeech/ASR
+
+repo_url=https://huggingface.co/pkufool/icefall_librispeech_streaming_pruned_transducer_stateless2_20220625
+
+log "Downloading pre-trained model from $repo_url"
+git lfs install
+git clone $repo_url
+repo=$(basename $repo_url)
+
+log "Display test files"
+tree $repo/
+soxi $repo/test_wavs/*.wav
+ls -lh $repo/test_wavs/*.wav
+
+pushd $repo/exp
+ln -s pretrained-epoch-24-avg-10.pt pretrained.pt
+popd
+
+for sym in 1 2 3; do
+  log "Greedy search with --max-sym-per-frame $sym"
+
+  ./pruned_transducer_stateless2/pretrained.py \
+    --method greedy_search \
+    --max-sym-per-frame $sym \
+    --checkpoint $repo/exp/pretrained.pt \
+    --bpe-model $repo/data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model \
+    --simulate-streaming 1 \
+    --causal-convolution 1 \
+    $repo/test_wavs/1089-134686-0001.wav \
+    $repo/test_wavs/1221-135766-0001.wav \
+    $repo/test_wavs/1221-135766-0002.wav
+done
+
+for method in modified_beam_search beam_search fast_beam_search; do
+  log "$method"
+
+  ./pruned_transducer_stateless2/pretrained.py \
+    --method $method \
+    --beam-size 4 \
+    --checkpoint $repo/exp/pretrained.pt \
+    --bpe-model $repo/data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model \
+    --simulate-streaming 1 \
+    --causal-convolution 1 \
+    $repo/test_wavs/1089-134686-0001.wav \
+    $repo/test_wavs/1221-135766-0001.wav \
+    $repo/test_wavs/1221-135766-0002.wav
+done
+
+echo "GITHUB_EVENT_NAME: ${GITHUB_EVENT_NAME}"
+echo "GITHUB_EVENT_LABEL_NAME: ${GITHUB_EVENT_LABEL_NAME}"
+if [[ x"${GITHUB_EVENT_NAME}" == x"schedule" || x"${GITHUB_EVENT_LABEL_NAME}" == x"run-decode"  ]]; then
+  mkdir -p pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp
+  ln -s $PWD/$repo/exp/pretrained-epoch-24-avg-10.pt pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp/epoch-999.pt
+  ln -s $PWD/$repo/data/lang_bpe_500 data/
+
+  ls -lh data
+  ls -lh pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp
+
+  log "Decoding test-clean and test-other"
+
+  # use a small value for decoding with CPU
+  max_duration=100
+
+  for method in greedy_search fast_beam_search modified_beam_search; do
+    log "Decoding with $method"
+
+    ./pruned_transducer_stateless2/decode.py \
+      --decoding-method $method \
+      --epoch 999 \
+      --avg 1 \
+      --max-duration $max_duration \
+      --exp-dir pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp \
+      --simulate-streaming 1 \
+      --causal-convolution 1
+  done
+
+  rm pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp/*.pt
+fi

.github/workflows/run-librispeech-streaming-transducer-stateless2-2022-06-26.yml

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+# Copyright      2021  Fangjun Kuang ([email protected])
+
+# See ../../LICENSE for clarification regarding multiple authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+name: run-librispeech-streaming-2022-06-26
+# streaming conformer stateless transducer2
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+  pull_request:
+    types: [labeled]
+
+  schedule:
+    # minute (0-59)
+    # hour (0-23)
+    # day of the month (1-31)
+    # month (1-12)
+    # day of the week (0-6)
+    # nightly build at 15:50 UTC time every day
+    - cron: "50 15 * * *"
+
+jobs:
+  run_librispeech_streaming_2022_06_26:
+    if: github.event.label.name == 'ready' || github.event.label.name == 'run-decode' || github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'schedule'
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-18.04]
+        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9]
+
+      fail-fast: false
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Setup Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          cache: 'pip'
+          cache-dependency-path: '**/requirements-ci.txt'
+
+      - name: Install Python dependencies
+        run: |
+          grep -v '^#' ./requirements-ci.txt  | xargs -n 1 -L 1 pip install
+          pip uninstall -y protobuf
+          pip install --no-binary protobuf protobuf
+
+      - name: Cache kaldifeat
+        id: my-cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/tmp/kaldifeat
+          key: cache-tmp-${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - name: Install kaldifeat
+        if: steps.my-cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          .github/scripts/install-kaldifeat.sh
+
+      - name: Cache LibriSpeech test-clean and test-other datasets
+        id: libri-test-clean-and-test-other-data
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/tmp/download
+          key: cache-libri-test-clean-and-test-other
+
+      - name: Download LibriSpeech test-clean and test-other
+        if: steps.libri-test-clean-and-test-other-data.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          .github/scripts/download-librispeech-test-clean-and-test-other-dataset.sh
+
+      - name: Prepare manifests for LibriSpeech test-clean and test-other
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          .github/scripts/prepare-librispeech-test-clean-and-test-other-manifests.sh
+
+      - name: Cache LibriSpeech test-clean and test-other fbank features
+        id: libri-test-clean-and-test-other-fbank
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/tmp/fbank-libri
+          key: cache-libri-fbank-test-clean-and-test-other-v2
+
+      - name: Compute fbank for LibriSpeech test-clean and test-other
+        if: steps.libri-test-clean-and-test-other-fbank.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          .github/scripts/compute-fbank-librispeech-test-clean-and-test-other.sh
+
+      - name: Inference with pre-trained model
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          GITHUB_EVENT_NAME: ${{ github.event_name }}
+          GITHUB_EVENT_LABEL_NAME: ${{ github.event.label.name }}
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p egs/librispeech/ASR/data
+          ln -sfv ~/tmp/fbank-libri egs/librispeech/ASR/data/fbank
+          ls -lh egs/librispeech/ASR/data/*
+
+          sudo apt-get -qq install git-lfs tree sox
+          export PYTHONPATH=$PWD:$PYTHONPATH
+          export PYTHONPATH=~/tmp/kaldifeat/kaldifeat/python:$PYTHONPATH
+          export PYTHONPATH=~/tmp/kaldifeat/build/lib:$PYTHONPATH
+
+          .github/scripts/run-librispeech-streaming-pruned-transducer-stateless2-2022-06-26.sh
+
+      - name: Display decoding results
+        if: github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event.label.name == 'run-decode'
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          cd egs/librispeech/ASR/
+          tree ./pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp
+
+          cd pruned_transducer_stateless2
+          echo "results for pruned_transducer_stateless2"
+          echo "===greedy search==="
+          find exp/greedy_search -name "log-*" -exec grep -n --color "best for test-clean" {} + | sort -n -k2
+          find exp/greedy_search -name "log-*" -exec grep -n --color "best for test-other" {} + | sort -n -k2
+
+          echo "===fast_beam_search==="
+          find exp/fast_beam_search -name "log-*" -exec grep -n --color "best for test-clean" {} + | sort -n -k2
+          find exp/fast_beam_search -name "log-*" -exec grep -n --color "best for test-other" {} + | sort -n -k2
+
+          echo "===modified_beam_search==="
+          find exp/modified_beam_search -name "log-*" -exec grep -n --color "best for test-clean" {} + | sort -n -k2
+          find exp/modified_beam_search -name "log-*" -exec grep -n --color "best for test-other" {} + | sort -n -k2
+
+      - name: Upload decoding results for pruned_transducer_stateless2
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        if: github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event.label.name == 'run-decode'
+        with:
+          name: torch-${{ matrix.torch }}-python-${{ matrix.python-version }}-ubuntu-18.04-cpu-pruned_transducer_stateless2-2022-06-26
+          path: egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp/