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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

This paper describes methods for evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in comparison with human perception results, using measures derived from linguistic distinctive features. Error patterns in terms of manner, place and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Xiang Kong , Jeung-Yoon Choi , Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

Sequence-to-sequence automatic speech recognition (ASR) models require large quantities of data to attain high performance. For this reason, there has been a recent surge in interest for unsupervised and semi-supervised training in such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Murali Karthick Baskar , Shinji Watanabe , Ramon Astudillo , Takaaki Hori , Lukáš Burget , Jan Černocký

Multimodal speech recognition aims to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems by leveraging additional visual information that is usually associated to the audio input. While previous approaches make crucial…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Dan Oneata , Horia Cucu

In this paper, we explore the use of pre-trained language models to learn sentiment information of written texts for speech sentiment analysis. First, we investigate how useful a pre-trained language model would be in a 2-step pipeline…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Suwon Shon , Pablo Brusco , Jing Pan , Kyu J. Han , Shinji Watanabe

The audio data is increasing day by day throughout the globe with the increase of telephonic conversations, video conferences and voice messages. This research provides a mechanism for identifying a speaker in an audio file, based on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Syeda Rabia Arshad , Syed Mujtaba Haider , Abdul Basit Mughal

When dealing with overlapped speech, the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems substantially degrades as they are designed for single-talker speech. To enhance ASR performance in conversational or meeting environments,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Hassan Taherian , DeLiang Wang

In conventional supervised pattern recognition tasks, model selection is typically accomplished by minimizing the classification error rate on a set of so-called development data, subject to ground-truth labeling by human experts or some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-08-25 Christopher M. White , Sanjeev P. Khudanpur , Patrick J. Wolfe

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are primarily evaluated on transcription accuracy. However, in some use cases such as subtitling, verbatim transcription would reduce output readability given limited screen size and reading time.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Danni Liu , Jan Niehues , Gerasimos Spanakis

We propose an unsupervised adaptation framework, Self-TAught Recognizer (STAR), which leverages unlabeled data to enhance the robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in diverse target domains, such as noise and accents.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yuchen Hu , Chen Chen , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Chengwei Qin , Pin-Yu Chen , Eng Siong Chng , Chao Zhang

This paper proposes a powerful Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) method for multiple languages, especially for low-resource languages that have a limited number of labeled data. Different from previous methods that tried to improve the VSR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Jeong Hun Yeo , Minsu Kim , Shinji Watanabe , Yong Man Ro

One solution to automatic speech recognition (ASR) of overlapping speakers is to separate speech and then perform ASR on the separated signals. Commonly, the separator produces artefacts which often degrade ASR performance. Addressing this…

Compared with automatic speech recognition (ASR), the human auditory system is more adept at handling noise-adverse situations, including environmental noise and channel distortion. To mimic this adeptness, auditory models have been widely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Peng Dai , Xue Teng , Frank Rudzicz , Ing Yann Soon

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

Producing a large amount of annotated speech data for training ASR systems remains difficult for more than 95% of languages all over the world which are low-resourced. However, we note human babies start to learn the language by the sounds…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Yi-Chen Chen , Chia-Hao Shen , Sung-Feng Huang , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

TV subtitles are a rich source of transcriptions of many types of speech, ranging from read speech in news reports to conversational and spontaneous speech in talk shows and soaps. However, subtitles are not verbatim (i.e. exact)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Jakob Poncelet , Hugo Van hamme

In this work, we seek to build effective code-switched (CS) automatic speech recognition systems (ASR) under the zero-shot setting where no transcribed CS speech data is available for training. Previously proposed frameworks which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Brian Yan , Matthew Wiesner , Ondrej Klejch , Preethi Jyothi , Shinji Watanabe

Benchmarks for language-guided embodied agents typically assume text-based instructions, but deployed agents will encounter spoken instructions. While Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models can bridge the input gap, erroneous ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Allen Chang , Xiaoyuan Zhu , Aarav Monga , Seoho Ahn , Tejas Srinivasan , Jesse Thomason

In this paper, we introduce a streaming keyphrase detection system that can be easily customized to accurately detect any phrase composed of words from a large vocabulary. The system is implemented with an end-to-end trained automatic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Rajeev Rikhye , Quan Wang , Qiao Liang , Yanzhang He , Ding Zhao , Yiteng , Huang , Arun Narayanan , Ian McGraw

Speaker-Attributed Automatic Speech Recognition (SAA) enhances traditional ASR systems by incorporating relative speaker identity tags directly into the transcript (e.g., [Speaker 1]:, [Speaker 2]:). In this work, we extend the capabilities…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Hagai Aronowitz , Zvi Kons , Avihu Dekel , George Saon , Ron Hoory