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With the growing adoption of wearable devices such as smart glasses for AI assistants, wearer speech recognition (WSR) is becoming increasingly critical to next-generation human-computer interfaces. However, in real environments,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Yufeng Yang , Yiteng Huang , Yong Xu , Li Wan , Suwon Shon , Yang Liu , Yifeng Fan , Zhaojun Yang , Olivier Siohan , Yue Liu , Ming Sun , Florian Metze

Although modern automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems can achieve high performance, they may produce errors that weaken readers' experience and do harm to downstream tasks. To improve the accuracy and reliability of ASR hypotheses, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Jing Du , Shiliang Pu , Qinbo Dong , Chao Jin , Xin Qi , Dian Gu , Ru Wu , Hongwei Zhou

At the present time, computers are employed to solve complex tasks and problems ranging from simple calculations to intensive digital image processing and intricate algorithmic optimization problems to computationally-demanding weather…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-03-26 Youssef Bassil , Paul Semaan

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) is crucial for many real-world applications, but it requires dedicated modeling techniques. Existing approaches can be divided into modular and end-to-end methods. Modular approaches separate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Simon Berger , Peter Vieting , Christoph Boeddeker , Ralf Schlüter , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have proliferated over the recent years to the point that free platforms such as YouTube now provide speech recognition services. Given the wide selection of ASR systems, we contribute to the field…

From the existing research it has been observed that many techniques and methodologies are available for performing every step of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system, but the performance (Minimization of Word Error Recognition-WER and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Urmila Shrawankar , Vilas Thakare

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), as the assistance of speech communication between pilots and air-traffic controllers, can significantly reduce the complexity of the task and increase the reliability of transmitted information. ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Iuliia Nigmatulina , Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Amrutha Prasad , Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo , Petr Motlicek

Audiovisual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR) aims to improve speech recognition accuracy by leveraging visual signals. It is particularly challenging in unconstrained real-world scenarios across various domains due to noisy acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Yihan Wu , Yichen Lu , Yifan Peng , Xihua Wang , Ruihua Song , Shinji Watanabe

It has been shown that the intelligibility of noisy speech can be improved by speech enhancement (SE) algorithms. However, monaural SE has not been established as an effective frontend for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in noisy…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yufeng Yang , Ashutosh Pandey , DeLiang Wang

Employing pre-trained language models (LM) to extract contextualized word representations has achieved state-of-the-art performance on various NLP tasks. However, applying this technique to noisy transcripts generated by automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Chao-Wei Huang , Yun-Nung Chen

An accurate objective speech intelligibility prediction algorithms is of great interest for many applications such as speech enhancement for hearing aids. Most algorithms measures the signal-to-noise ratios or correlations between the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Zehai Tu , Ning Ma , Jon Barker

In the FAME! project, we aim to develop an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for Frisian-Dutch code-switching (CS) speech extracted from the archives of a local broadcaster with the ultimate goal of building a spoken document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Emre Yılmaz , Mitchell McLaren , Henk van den Heuvel , David A. van Leeuwen

Environmental noises and reverberation have a detrimental effect on the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Multi-condition training of neural network-based acoustic models is used to deal with this problem, but it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Desh Raj , Jesus Villalba , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is increasingly used in applications involving child speech, such as language learning and literacy acquisition. However, the effectiveness of such applications is limited by high ASR error rates. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Gus Lathouwers , Lingyun Gao , Catia Cucchiarini , Helmer Strik

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often falter while processing stuttering-related disfluencies -- such as involuntary blocks and word repetitions -- yielding inaccurate transcripts. A critical barrier to progress is the scarcity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Dena Mujtaba , Nihar R. Mahapatra , Megan Arney , J. Scott Yaruss , Caryn Herring , Jia Bin

Speech samples recorded in both indoor and outdoor environments are often contaminated with secondary audio sources. Most end-to-end monaural speech recognition systems either remove these background sounds using speech enhancement or train…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Chaitanya Narisetty , Emiru Tsunoo , Xuankai Chang , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Michael Hentschel , Shinji Watanabe

Conversational speech normally is embodied with loose syntactic structures at the utterance level but simultaneously exhibits topical coherence relations across consecutive utterances. Prior work has shown that capturing longer context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Bi-Cheng Yan , Hsin-Wei Wang , Shih-Hsuan Chiu , Hsuan-Sheng Chiu , Berlin Chen

Usually, hearing impaired people use hearing aids which are implemented with speech enhancement algorithms. Estimation of speech and estimation of nose are the components in single channel speech enhancement system. The main objective of…

Sound · Computer Science 2014-11-10 M. Ravichandra Kumar , B. Ravi Teja

We live in a world where 60% of the population can speak two or more languages fluently. Members of these communities constantly switch between languages when having a conversation. As automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Siddharth Dalmia , Yuzong Liu , Srikanth Ronanki , Katrin Kirchhoff

We address the problem of speech enhancement generalisation to unseen environments by performing two manipulations. First, we embed an additional recording from the environment alone, and use this embedding to alter activations in the main…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-31 Gil Keren , Jing Han , Björn Schuller