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Automatic Cued Speech Recognition (ACSR) provides an intelligent human-machine interface for visual communications, where the Cued Speech (CS) system utilizes lip movements and hand gestures to code spoken language for hearing-impaired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Lei Liu , Li Liu

Cued Speech (CS) is an innovative visual communication system that integrates lip-reading with hand coding, designed to enhance effective communication for individuals with hearing impairments. Automatic CS Recognition (ACSR) refers to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Guanjie Huang , Danny Hin Kwok Tsang , Li Liu

Contrastive explanations for understanding the behavior of black box models has gained a lot of attention recently as they provide potential for recourse. In this paper, we propose a method Contrastive Attributed explanations for Text (CAT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Saneem Chemmengath , Amar Prakash Azad , Ronny Luss , Amit Dhurandhar

Personalizing automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for non-normative speech, such as dysarthric and aphasic speech, is challenging. While speaker-specific fine-tuning (SS-FT) is widely used, it is typically initialized directly from a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shan Jiang , Jiawen Qi , Chuanbing Huo , Yingqiang Gao , Qinyu Chen

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks are resolved by end-to-end deep learning models, which benefits us by less preparation of raw data, and easier transformation between languages. We propose a novel end-to-end deep learning model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-31 Xinpei Zhou , Jiwei Li , Xi Zhou

The recent emergence of joint CTC-Attention model shows significant improvement in automatic speech recognition (ASR). The improvement largely lies in the modeling of linguistic information by decoder. The decoder joint-optimized with an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Mengyuan Zhao , Zhiyong Zhang , Jing Xiao

Scores from traditional confidence classifiers (CCs) in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems lack universal interpretation and vary with updates to the underlying confidence or acoustic models (AMs). In this work, we build…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Amber Afshan , Kshitiz Kumar , Jian Wu

Autoregressive (AR) language models have emerged as powerful solutions for zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, capable of generating natural speech from a few seconds of audio prompts. However, conventional AR-based TTS systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Chun Yat Wu , Jiajun Deng , Guinan Li , Qiuqiang Kong , Simon Lui

In this paper we proposed a novel Adversarial Training (AT) approach for end-to-end speech recognition using a Criticizing Language Model (CLM). In this way the CLM and the automatic speech recognition (ASR) model can challenge and learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Alexander H. Liu , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

In this paper we introduce various techniques to improve the performance of electroencephalography (EEG) features based continuous speech recognition (CSR) systems. A connectionist temporal classification (CTC) based automatic speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-25 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Yan Han , Ahmed H Tewfik

This paper presents a novel donor data selection method to enhance low-resource automatic speech recognition (ASR). While ASR performs well in high-resource languages, its accuracy declines in low-resource settings due to limited training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Shunsuke Mitsumori , Sara Kashiwagi , Keitaro Tanaka , Shigeo Morishima

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are effective models for reducing spectral variations and modeling spectral correlations in acoustic features for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Hybrid speech recognition systems incorporating CNNs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Ying Zhang , Mohammad Pezeshki , Philemon Brakel , Saizheng Zhang , Cesar Laurent Yoshua Bengio , Aaron Courville

Code-switching speech recognition has attracted an increasing interest recently, but the need for expert linguistic knowledge has always been a big issue. End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) simplifies the building of ASR systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Ne Luo , Dongwei Jiang , Shuaijiang Zhao , Caixia Gong , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

Semi-supervised learning has demonstrated promising results in automatic speech recognition (ASR) by self-training using a seed ASR model with pseudo-labels generated for unlabeled data. The effectiveness of this approach largely relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Niko Moritz , Takaaki Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

This paper describes NCRF++, a toolkit for neural sequence labeling. NCRF++ is designed for quick implementation of different neural sequence labeling models with a CRF inference layer. It provides users with an inference for building the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Jie Yang , Yue Zhang

Recently, end-to-end automatic speech recognition models based on connectionist temporal classification (CTC) have achieved impressive results, especially when fine-tuned from wav2vec2.0 models. Due to the conditional independence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Keqi Deng , Songjun Cao , Yike Zhang , Long Ma , Gaofeng Cheng , Ji Xu , Pengyuan Zhang

Segmental conditional random fields (SCRFs) and connectionist temporal classification (CTC) are two sequence labeling methods used for end-to-end training of speech recognition models. Both models define a transcription probability by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Liang Lu , Lingpeng Kong , Chris Dyer , Noah A. Smith

Code-Switching (CS) remains a challenge for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), especially character-based models. With the combined choice of characters from multiple languages, the outcome from character-based models suffers from phoneme…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Burin Naowarat , Thananchai Kongthaworn , Korrawe Karunratanakul , Sheng Hui Wu , Ekapol Chuangsuwanich

Contextual ASR or hotword customization holds substantial practical value. Despite the impressive performance of current end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, they often face challenges in accurately recognizing rare…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Guanrou Yang , Ziyang Ma , Zhifu Gao , Shiliang Zhang , Xie Chen

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a key area in computational linguistics, focusing on developing technologies that enable computers to convert spoken language into text. This field combines linguistics and machine learning. ASR models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Anish Saha , A. G. Ramakrishnan