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We present state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems employing a standard hybrid DNN/HMM architecture compared to an attention-based encoder-decoder design for the LibriSpeech task. Detailed descriptions of the system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Christoph Lüscher , Eugen Beck , Kazuki Irie , Markus Kitza , Wilfried Michel , Albert Zeyer , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

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

This paper proposes an efficient memory transformer Emformer for low latency streaming speech recognition. In Emformer, the long-range history context is distilled into an augmented memory bank to reduce self-attention's computation…

This study proposes a novel hybrid deep learning framework that integrates a Large Language Model (LLM) with a Transformer architecture for stock price forecasting. The research addresses a critical theoretical gap in existing approaches…

Transformer based end-to-end modelling approaches with multiple stream inputs have been achieved great success in various automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks. An important issue associated with such approaches is that the intermediate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-11 Jin Li , Rongfeng Su , Xurong Xie , Nan Yan , Lan Wang

Neural transducers have achieved human level performance on standard speech recognition benchmarks. However, their performance significantly degrades in the presence of cross-talk, especially when the primary speaker has a low…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-31 Desh Raj , Junteng Jia , Jay Mahadeokar , Chunyang Wu , Niko Moritz , Xiaohui Zhang , Ozlem Kalinli

Automatic speech recognition systems have undoubtedly advanced with the integration of multilingual and multitask models such as Whisper, which have shown a promising ability to understand and process speech across a wide range of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Xabier de Zuazo , Eva Navas , Ibon Saratxaga , Inma Hernáez Rioja

We explore options to use Transformer networks in neural transducer for end-to-end speech recognition. Transformer networks use self-attention for sequence modeling and comes with advantages in parallel computation and capturing contexts.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-30 Ching-Feng Yeh , Jay Mahadeokar , Kaustubh Kalgaonkar , Yongqiang Wang , Duc Le , Mahaveer Jain , Kjell Schubert , Christian Fuegen , Michael L. Seltzer

Despite the significant progress made in the last years, state-of-the-art speech recognition technologies provide a satisfactory performance only in the close-talking condition. Robustness of distant speech recognition in adverse acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-11 Mirco Ravanelli , Maurizio Omologo

Speech quality and intelligibility are significantly degraded in noisy environments. This paper presents a novel transformer-based learning framework to address the single-channel noise suppression problem for real-time applications.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Behnaz Bahmei , Siamak Arzanpour , Elina Birmingham

With the advance in self-supervised learning for audio and visual modalities, it has become possible to learn a robust audio-visual speech representation. This would be beneficial for improving the audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Zi-Qiang Zhang , Jie Zhang , Jian-Shu Zhang , Ming-Hui Wu , Xin Fang , Li-Rong Dai

The amount of articulatory data available for training deep learning models is much less compared to acoustic speech data. In order to improve articulatory-to-acoustic synthesis performance in these low-resource settings, we propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Peter Wu , Bohan Yu , Kevin Scheck , Alan W Black , Aditi S. Krishnapriyan , Irene Y. Chen , Tanja Schultz , Shinji Watanabe , Gopala K. Anumanchipalli

In this paper we present a Transformer-Transducer model architecture and a training technique to unify streaming and non-streaming speech recognition models into one model. The model is composed of a stack of transformer layers for audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Anshuman Tripathi , Jaeyoung Kim , Qian Zhang , Han Lu , Hasim Sak

We explore diverse representations of speech audio, and their effect on a performance of late fusion ensemble of E-Branchformer models, applied to Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) task. Although it is generally known that ensemble methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Marin Jezidžić , Matej Mihelčić

Interactive speech recognition systems must generate words quickly while also producing accurate results. Two-pass models excel at these requirements by employing a first-pass decoder that quickly emits words, and a second-pass decoder that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Ke Hu , Ruoming Pang , Tara N. Sainath , Trevor Strohman

The remarkable performance of the pre-trained language model (LM) using self-supervised learning has led to a major paradigm shift in the study of natural language processing. In line with these changes, leveraging the performance of speech…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Mun-Hak Lee , Joon-Hyuk Chang

The paper revives an older approach to acoustic modeling that borrows from n-gram language modeling in an attempt to scale up both the amount of training data and model size (as measured by the number of parameters in the model), to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Ciprian Chelba , Peng Xu , Fernando Pereira , Thomas Richardson

Traditionally, research in automated speech recognition has focused on local-first encoding of audio representations to predict the spoken phonemes in an utterance. Unfortunately, approaches relying on such hyper-local information tend to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-19 David M. Chan , Shalini Ghosh , Debmalya Chakrabarty , Björn Hoffmeister

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

The performance of automatic speech recognition systems can be improved by adapting an acoustic model to compensate for the mismatch between training and testing conditions, for example by adapting to unseen speakers. The success of speaker…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Ondřej Klejch , Joachim Fainberg , Peter Bell