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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

In a pipeline speech translation system, automatic speech recognition (ASR) system will transmit errors in recognition to the downstream machine translation (MT) system. A standard machine translation system is usually trained on parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Qiao Cheng , Meiyuan Fang , Yaqian Han , Jin Huang , Yitao Duan

With the recent advances in technology, automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been widely used in real-world applications. The efficiency of converting large amounts of speech into text accurately with limited resources has become more…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Yoo Rhee Oh , Kiyoung Park , Jeon Gyu Park

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an imperfect process that results in certain mismatches in ASR output text when compared to plain written text or transcriptions. When plain text data is to be used to train systems for spoken language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Prashant Serai , Vishal Sunder , Eric Fosler-Lussier

Target-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) aims to transcribe the desired speech of a target speaker from multi-talker overlapped utterances. Most of the existing target-speaker ASR (TS-ASR) methods involve either training from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Hao Ma , Zhiyuan Peng , Mingjie Shao , Jing Li , Ju Liu

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for air traffic control is generally trained by pooling Air Traffic Controller (ATCO) and pilot data into one set. This is motivated by the fact that pilot's voice communications are more scarce than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Amrutha Prasad , Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Petr Motlicek , Saeed Sarfjoo , Iuliia Nigmatulina , Oliver Ohneiser , Hartmut Helmke

This study focuses on the development of Indonesian Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) using the XLSR-53 pre-trained model, the XLSR stands for cross-lingual speech representations. The use of this XLSR-53 pre-trained model is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Panji Arisaputra , Amalia Zahra

Inspired by the behavior of humans talking in noisy environments, we propose an embodied embedded cognition approach to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for robots in challenging environments, such as with ego noise, using…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Jorge , Davila-Chacon , Jindong , Liu , Stefan , Wermter

The rapid development of neural text-to-speech (TTS) systems enabled its usage in other areas of natural language processing such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) or spoken language translation (SLT). Due to the large number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Nick Rossenbach , Ralf Schlüter , Sakriani Sakti

We develop automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for stories told by Afrikaans and isiXhosa preschool children. Oral narratives provide a way to assess children's language development before they learn to read. We consider a range of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Christiaan Jacobs , Annelien Smith , Daleen Klop , Ondřej Klejch , Febe de Wet , Herman Kamper

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

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) has the potential to substantially reduce manual annotation effort in child speech research by generating automatic transcriptions. However, obtaining reliably high-quality ASR transcriptions for child…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Gus Lathouwers , Lingyun Gao , Catia Cucchiarini , Helmer Strik

Traditional topic identification solutions from audio rely on an automatic speech recognition system (ASR) to produce transcripts used as input to a text-based model. These approaches work well in high-resource scenarios, where there are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Dejan Porjazovski , Tamás Grósz , Mikko Kurimo

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is the interdisciplinary subfield of computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enables the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Rachit Shukla

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems promise to deliver objective interpretation of human speech. Practice and recent evidence suggests that the state-of-the-art (SotA) ASRs struggle with the large variation in speech due to e.g.,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Siyuan Feng , Olya Kudina , Bence Mark Halpern , Odette Scharenborg

Recognition systems are commonly designed to authenticate users at the access control levels of a system. A number of voice recognition methods have been developed using a pitch estimation process which are very vulnerable in low Signal to…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Aman Chadha , Divya Jyoti , M. Mani Roja

Recently, self-supervised pre-training has gained success in automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, considering the difference between speech accents in real scenarios, how to identify accents and use accent features to improve ASR is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-16 Keqi Deng , Songjun Cao , Long Ma

This paper presents a speech intelligibility model based on automatic speech recognition (ASR), combining phoneme probabilities from deep neural networks (DNN) and a performance measure that estimates the word error rate from these…

Real-time Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a fundamental building block for many commercial applications of ML, including live captioning, dictation, meeting transcriptions, and medical scribes. Accuracy and latency are the most…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Atila Orhon , Arda Okan , Berkin Durmus , Zach Nagengast , Eduardo Pacheco