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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has reached a level of accuracy in recent years, that even outperforms humans in transcribing speech to text. Nevertheless, all current ASR approaches show a certain weakness against ambient noise. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Christopher Simic , Tobias Bocklet

Spoken language understanding (SLU) tasks are usually solved by first transcribing an utterance with automatic speech recognition (ASR) and then feeding the output to a text-based model. Recent advances in self-supervised representation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-01 Lasse Borgholt , Jakob Drachmann Havtorn , Mostafa Abdou , Joakim Edin , Lars Maaløe , Anders Søgaard , Christian Igel

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) plays a pivotal role in our daily lives, offering utility not only for interacting with machines but also for facilitating communication for individuals with partial or profound hearing impairments. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Billel Essaid , Hamza Kheddar , Noureddine Batel , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury , Abderrahmane Lakas

Humans have the ability to utilize visual cues, such as lip movements and visual scenes, to enhance auditory perception, particularly in noisy environments. However, current Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or Audio-Visual Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lakshmipathi Balaji , Karan Singla

Speech-enabled systems typically first convert audio to text through an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model and then feed the text to downstream natural language processing (NLP) modules. The errors of the ASR system can seriously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Tong Cui , Jinghui Xiao , Liangyou Li , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

Automatic speech recognition systems are part of people's daily lives, embedded in personal assistants and mobile phones, helping as a facilitator for human-machine interaction while allowing access to information in a practically intuitive…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Julio Cesar Duarte , Sérgio Colcher

Speech applications dealing with conversations require not only recognizing the spoken words, but also determining who spoke when. The task of assigning words to speakers is typically addressed by merging the outputs of two separate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Laurent El Shafey , Hagen Soltau , Izhak Shafran

In the realm of spoken language understanding (SLU), numerous natural language understanding (NLU) methodologies have been adapted by supplying large language models (LLMs) with transcribed speech instead of conventional written text. In…

Despite recent advances, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are still far from perfect. Typical errors include acronyms, named entities, and domain-specific special words for which little or no labeled data is available. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Christian Huber , Alexander Waibel

Recent advancements in supervised automatic speech recognition (ASR) have achieved remarkable performance, largely due to the growing availability of large transcribed speech corpora. However, most languages lack sufficient paired speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Junrui Ni , Liming Wang , Yang Zhang , Kaizhi Qian , Heting Gao , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Chang D. Yoo

This research presents a novel approach to enhancing automatic speech recognition systems by integrating noise detection capabilities directly into the recognition architecture. Building upon the wav2vec2 framework, the proposed method…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Karamvir Singh

The performance of automatic speech recognition systems(ASR) degrades in the presence of noisy speech. This paper demonstrates that using electroencephalography (EEG) can help automatic speech recognition systems overcome performance loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Jianguo Yu , Ahmed H Tewfik

Modern Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems can achieve high performance in terms of recognition accuracy. However, a perfectly accurate transcript still can be challenging to read due to disfluency, filter words, and other errata…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Junwei Liao , Yu Shi , Ming Gong , Linjun Shou , Sefik Eskimez , Liyang Lu , Hong Qu , Michael Zeng

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often make unrecoverable errors due to subsystem pruning (acoustic, language and pronunciation models); for example pruning words due to acoustics using short-term context, prior to rescoring with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar , Haoqi Li , Kevin Knight , Panayiotis Georgiou

This paper describes noisy speech recognition for an augmented reality headset that helps verbal communication within real multiparty conversational environments. A major approach that has actively been studied in simulated environments is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 Yicheng Du , Aditya Arie Nugraha , Kouhei Sekiguchi , Yoshiaki Bando , Mathieu Fontaine , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is an essential task for machines to understand human speech for better interactions. However, errors from the automatic speech recognizer (ASR) usually hurt the understanding performance. In reality, ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Ya-Hsin Chang , Yun-Nung Chen

Modern Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems can achieve high performance in terms of recognition accuracy. However, a perfectly accurate transcript still can be challenging to read due to grammatical errors, disfluency, and other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Junwei Liao , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Liyang Lu , Yu Shi , Ming Gong , Linjun Shou , Hong Qu , Michael Zeng

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a pivotal role in understanding human communication, enabling emotionally intelligent systems, and serving as a fundamental component in the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Yuanchao Li

The performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems has constantly increased in state-of-the-art development. However, performance tends to decrease considerably in more challenging conditions (e.g., background noise, multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ronald Cumbal , Birger Moell , Jose Lopes , Olof Engwall

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) meets more informal and free-form input data as voice user interfaces and conversational agents such as the voice assistants such as Alexa, Google Home, etc., gain popularity. Conversational speech is both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Hannaneh B. Pasandi , Haniyeh B. Pasandi