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This paper presents the architecture and performance of a novel Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system developed by the Transsion Speech Team for Track 1 of the MLC-SLM 2025 Challenge. The proposed system comprises three key…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Xiaoxiao Li , An Zhu , Youhai Jiang , Fengjie Zhu

We explore the ability of large language models (LLMs) to act as speech recognition post-processors that perform rescoring and error correction. Our first focus is on instruction prompting to let LLMs perform these task without fine-tuning,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Chao-Han Huck Yang , Yile Gu , Yi-Chieh Liu , Shalini Ghosh , Ivan Bulyko , Andreas Stolcke

Speech enhancement (SE) systems are typically evaluated using a variety of instrumental metrics. The use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to evaluate SE performance is common in literature, usually in terms of word error rate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Danilo de Oliveira , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

Supervised training of speech recognition models requires access to transcribed audio data, which often is not possible due to confidentiality issues. Our approach to this problem is to generate synthetic audio from a text-only corpus using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Yanis Perrin , Gilles Boulianne

We present a new methodology for handling AI errors by introducing weakly supervised AI error correctors with a priori performance guarantees. These AI correctors are auxiliary maps whose role is to moderate the decisions of some previously…

The aim of this project is to implement and design arobust synthetic speech classifier for the IEEE Signal ProcessingCup 2022 challenge. Here, we learn a synthetic speech attributionmodel using the speech generated from various…

A long-term goal of Artificial Intelligence is to build a language understanding system that allows a human to collaborate with a physical robot using language that is natural to the human. In this paper we highlight some of the challenges…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-24 Peter Lindes , Kaoutar Skiker

When we interact with small screen devices, sometimes we make errors, due to our abilities/disabilities, contextual factors that distract our attention or problems related to the interface. Recovering from these errors may be time consuming…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Elgin Akpınar , Yeliz Yeşilada , Selim Temizer

This paper describes LeVoice automatic speech recognition systems to track2 of intelligent cockpit speech recognition challenge 2022. Track2 is a speech recognition task without limits on the scope of model size. Our main points include…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Yan Jia , Mi Hong , Jingyu Hou , Kailong Ren , Sifan Ma , Jin Wang , Fangzhen Peng , Yinglin Ji , Lin Yang , Junjie Wang

Progress in AI is often demonstrated by new models claiming improved performance on tasks measuring model capabilities. Evaluating language models can be particularly challenging, as choices of how a model is evaluated on a task can lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yuling Gu , Oyvind Tafjord , Bailey Kuehl , Dany Haddad , Jesse Dodge , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Interactive spoken dialog provides many new challenges for spoken language systems. One of the most critical is the prevalence of speech repairs. This paper presents an algorithm that detects and corrects speech repairs based on finding the…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Peter Heeman , James Allen

Readability assessment is the task of evaluating the reading difficulty of a given piece of text. Although research on computational approaches to readability assessment is now two decades old, there is not much work on synthesizing this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Sowmya Vajjala

The vast proliferation of sensor devices and Internet of Things enables the applications of sensor-based activity recognition. However, there exist substantial challenges that could influence the performance of the recognition system in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Kaixuan Chen , Dalin Zhang , Lina Yao , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Yunhao Liu

One of the most difficult speech recognition tasks is accurate recognition of human to human communication. Advances in deep learning over the last few years have produced major speech recognition improvements on the representative…

This paper addresses end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) for long audio recordings such as lecture and conversational speeches. Most end-to-end ASR models are designed to recognize independent utterances, but contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Takaaki Hori , Niko Moritz , Chiori Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

Advancements in deep neural networks have allowed automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to attain human parity on several publicly available clean speech datasets. However, even state-of-the-art ASR systems experience performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Sabato Macro Siniscalchi , Pin-Yu Chen , Eng Siong Chng

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often encounter difficulties in accurately recognizing rare words, leading to errors that can have a negative impact on downstream tasks such as keyword spotting, intent detection, and text…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jiajun He , Zekun Yang , Tomoki Toda

Text error correction aims to correct the errors in text sequences such as those typed by humans or generated by speech recognition models. Previous error correction methods usually take the source (incorrect) sentence as encoder input and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Kai Shen , Yichong Leng , Xu Tan , Siliang Tang , Yuan Zhang , Wenjie Liu , Edward Lin

Speech recognizers trained on close-talking speech do not generalize to distant speech and the word error rate degradation can be as large as 40% absolute. Most studies focus on tackling distant speech recognition as a separate problem,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Hao Tang , Wei-Ning Hsu , Francois Grondin , James Glass

This software project based paper is for a vision of the near future in which computer interaction is characterized by natural face-to-face conversations with lifelike characters that speak, emote, and gesture. The first step is speech. The…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-05-10 Urmila Shrawankar , Anjali Mahajan