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Summary:
Add a separate tutorial for cuctc.
Reslove https://github.com/pytorch/audio/issues/3096

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/audio/pull/3297

Reviewed By: huangruizhe

Differential Revision: D47928400

Pulled By: mthrok

fbshipit-source-id: 8c16492fb4d007b6ea7969ba77c866a51749c0ec

Summary:
This PR implements a CUDA based ctc prefix beam search decoder.

Attach serveral benchmark results using V100 below:
|decoder type| model |datasets       | decoding time (secs)| beam size | batch size | model unit | subsampling times | vocab size |
|--------------|---------|------|-----------------|------------|-------------|------------|-----------------------|------------|
| cuctc |  conformer nemo    |dev clean        |7.68s | 8           |  32       | bpe         |    4  | 1000|
| cuctc |  conformer nemo   |dev clean  (sort by length)      |1.6s | 8           |  32       | bpe         |    4  | 1000|
| cuctc |  wav2vec2.0 torchaudio |dev clean                                |22s | 10           |  1       | char         |    2  | 29|
| cuctc |   conformer espnet   |aishell1 test                             | 5s | 10           |  24       | char         |    4  | 4233|

Note:
1.  The design is to parallel computation through batch and vocab axis, for loop the frames axis. So it's more friendly with smaller sequence lengths, larger vocab size comparing with CPU implementations.
2. WER is the same as CPU implementations. However, it can't decode with LM now.

Resolves: https://github.com/pytorch/audio/issues/2957.

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/audio/pull/3096

Reviewed By: nateanl

Differential Revision: D44709397

Pulled By: mthrok

fbshipit-source-id: 3078c54a2b44dc00eb4a81b4c657487eeff8c155