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Speech accents pose a significant challenge to state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Degradation in performance across underrepresented accents is a severe deterrent to the inclusive adoption of ASR. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Darshan Prabhu , Preethi Jyothi , Sriram Ganapathy , Vinit Unni

Recently, to mitigate the confusion between different languages in code-switching (CS) automatic speech recognition (ASR), the conditionally factorized models, such as the language-aware encoder (LAE), explicitly disregard the contextual…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Guodong Ma , Wenxuan Wang , Yuke Li , Yuting Yang , Binbin Du , Haoran Fu

End-to-end (E2E) models are becoming increasingly popular for spoken language understanding (SLU) systems and are beginning to achieve competitive performance to pipeline-based approaches. However, recent work has shown that these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Siddhant Arora , Siddharth Dalmia , Xuankai Chang , Brian Yan , Alan Black , Shinji Watanabe

This paper is the first study to apply deep mutual learning (DML) to end-to-end ASR models. In DML, multiple models are trained simultaneously and collaboratively by mimicking each other throughout the training process, which helps to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Ryo Masumura , Mana Ihori , Akihiko Takashima , Tomohiro Tanaka , Takanori Ashihara

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems lack the distinct language model (LM) component that characterizes traditional speech systems. While this simplifies the model architecture, it complicates the task of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Cal Peyser , Sepand Mavandadi , Tara N. Sainath , James Apfel , Ruoming Pang , Shankar Kumar

There has been an increased interest in the integration of pretrained speech recognition (ASR) and language models (LM) into the SLU framework. However, prior methods often struggle with a vocabulary mismatch between pretrained models, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Siddhant Arora , Hayato Futami , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Emiru Tsunoo , Brian Yan , Shinji Watanabe

We propose a semi-supervised learning method for building end-to-end rich transcription-style automatic speech recognition (RT-ASR) systems from small-scale rich transcription-style and large-scale common transcription-style datasets. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Tomohiro Tanaka , Ryo Masumura , Mana Ihori , Akihiko Takashima , Shota Orihashi , Naoki Makishima

Improving end-to-end speech recognition by incorporating external text data has been a longstanding research topic. There has been a recent focus on training E2E ASR models that get the performance benefits of external text data without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Bolaji Yusuf , Ankur Gandhe , Alex Sokolov

The INTERSPEECH 2025 Challenge on Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Models (MLC-SLM) promotes multilingual conversational ASR with large language models (LLMs). Our previous SHNU-mASR system adopted a competitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuxiang Mei , Dongxing Xu , Jiaen Liang , Yanhua Long

Transfer learning from high-resource languages is known to be an efficient way to improve end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) for low-resource languages. Pre-trained or jointly trained encoder-decoder models, however, do not share…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Changhan Wang , Juan Pino , Jiatao Gu

Contextual ASR, which takes a list of bias terms as input along with audio, has drawn recent interest as ASR use becomes more widespread. We are releasing contextual biasing lists to accompany the Earnings21 dataset, creating a public…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jennifer Drexler Fox , Natalie Delworth

The Transformer self-attention network has recently shown promising performance as an alternative to recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. However, the Transformer has a drawback in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-17 Emiru Tsunoo , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Toshiyuki Kumakura , Shinji Watanabe

Despite the recent significant advances witnessed in end-to-end (E2E) ASR system for code-switching, hunger for audio-text paired data limits the further improvement of the models' performance. In this paper, we propose a decoupled…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Shuai Zhang , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengkun Tian , Ye Bai , Jianhua Tao , Zhengqi wen

In recent years, end-to-end speech recognition has emerged as a technology that integrates the acoustic, pronunciation dictionary, and language model components of the traditional Automatic Speech Recognition model. It is possible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Tzu-Ting Yang , Hsin-Wei Wang , Berlin Chen

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are increasingly popular due to their relative architectural simplicity and competitive performance. However, even though the average accuracy of these systems may be high, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Chao-Han Huck Yang , Linda Liu , Ankur Gandhe , Yile Gu , Anirudh Raju , Denis Filimonov , Ivan Bulyko

The demand for fast and accurate incremental speech recognition increases as the applications of automatic speech recognition (ASR) proliferate. Incremental speech recognizers output chunks of partially recognized words while the user is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Yuan Shangguan , Kate Knister , Yanzhang He , Ian McGraw , Francoise Beaufays

Error correction (EC) models play a crucial role in refining Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) transcriptions, enhancing the readability and quality of transcriptions. Without requiring access to the underlying code or model weights, EC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Rao Ma , Mengjie Qian , Mark Gales , Kate Knill

In this paper, a multilingual end-to-end framework, called as ATCSpeechNet, is proposed to tackle the issue of translating communication speech into human-readable text in air traffic control (ATC) systems. In the proposed framework, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Yi Lin , Bo Yang , Linchao Li , Dongyue Guo , Jianwei Zhang , Hu Chen , Yi Zhang

This article describes an efficient end-to-end speech translation (E2E-ST) framework based on non-autoregressive (NAR) models. End-to-end speech translation models have several advantages over traditional cascade systems such as inference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-10 Hirofumi Inaguma , Yosuke Higuchi , Kevin Duh , Tatsuya Kawahara , Shinji Watanabe

It is challenging to extract semantic meanings directly from audio signals in spoken language understanding (SLU), due to the lack of textual information. Popular end-to-end (E2E) SLU models utilize sequence-to-sequence automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Jixuan Wang , Martin Radfar , Kai Wei , Clement Chung