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Language Identification (LID) systems are used to classify the spoken language from a given audio sample and are typically the first step for many spoken language processing tasks, such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. Without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Christian Bartz , Tom Herold , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

Spoken language Identification (LID) systems are needed to identify the language(s) present in a given audio sample, and typically could be the first step in many speech processing related tasks such as automatic speech recognition (ASR).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Pradeep Rangan , Sundeep Teki , Hemant Misra

Automatic spoken language identification (LID) is a very important research field in the era of multilingual voice-command-based human-computer interaction (HCI). A front-end LID module helps to improve the performance of many speech-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Spandan Dey , Md Sahidullah , Goutam Saha

Multilingual spoken dialogue systems have gained prominence in the recent past necessitating the requirement for a front-end Language Identification (LID) system. Most of the existing LID systems rely on modeling the language discriminative…

This paper presents our modeling and architecture approaches for building a highly accurate low-latency language identification system to support multilingual spoken queries for voice assistants. A common approach to solve multilingual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Chander Chandak , Zeynab Raeesy , Ariya Rastrow , Yuzong Liu , Xiangyang Huang , Siyu Wang , Dong Kwon Joo , Roland Maas

Language Identification (LID) is an important component of many multilingual natural language processing pipelines, where it facilitates corpus curation, training data analysis, and cross-lingual evaluation of large language models. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Clara Meister , Ahmetcan Yavuz , Pietro Lesci , Tiago Pimentel

Language Identification (LID) is a crucial preliminary process in the field of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) that involves the identification of a spoken language from audio samples. Contemporary systems that can process speech in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Atanu Mandal , Santanu Pal , Indranil Dutta , Mahidas Bhattacharya , Sudip Kumar Naskar

Accurately classifying accents and assessing accentedness in non-native speakers are both challenging tasks due to the complexity and diversity of accent and dialect variations. In this study, embeddings from advanced pre-trained language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Shahram Ghorbani , John H. L. Hansen

Prior research indicates that LID model performance significantly declines on accented speech; however, the specific causes, extent, and characterization of these errors remain under-explored. (i) We identify a common failure mode on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Niyati Bafna , Matthew Wiesner

State-of-the-art spoken language identification (LID) systems, which are based on end-to-end deep neural networks, have shown remarkable success not only in discriminating between distant languages but also between closely-related languages…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Badr M. Abdullah , Tania Avgustinova , Bernd Möbius , Dietrich Klakow

Language Identification (LID) is a core task in multilingual NLP, yet current systems often overfit to clean, monolingual data. This work introduces DIVERS-BENCH, a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art LID models across diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jessica Ojo , Zina Kamel , David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Effective extraction and application of linguistic features are central to the enhancement of spoken Language IDentification (LID) performance. With the success of recent large models, such as GPT and Whisper, the potential to leverage such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Peng Shen , Xuguang Lu , Hisashi Kawai

Spoken Language Identification (LID) is an important sub-task of Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) that is used to classify the language(s) in an audio segment. Automatic LID plays an useful role in multilingual countries. In various…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Parth Shastri , Chirag Patil , Poorval Wanere , Shrinivas Mahajan , Abhishek Bhatt , Hardik Sailor

This paper addresses spoken language identification (SLI) and speech recognition of multilingual broadcast and institutional speech, real application scenarios that have been rarely addressed in the SLI literature. Observing that in these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Martina Valente , Fabio Brugnara , Giovanni Morrone , Enrico Zovato , Leonardo Badino

Language identification (LID) has relevance in many speech processing applications. For the automatic recognition of code-switching speech, the conventional approaches often employ an LID system for detecting the languages present within an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Sreeram Ganji , Kunal Dhawan , Kumar Priyadarshi , Rohit Sinha

Language identification (LID) recognizes the language of a spoken utterance automatically. According to recent studies, LID models trained with an automatic speech recognition (ASR) task perform better than those trained with a LID task…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-17 Jinseok Park , Hyung Yong Kim , Jihwan Park , Byeong-Yeol Kim , Shukjae Choi , Yunkyu Lim

Language identification from speech is a common preprocessing step in many spoken language processing systems. In recent years, this field has seen fast progress, mostly due to the use of self-supervised models pretrained on multilingual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Kunnar Kukk , Tanel Alumäe

The acoustic and linguistic features are important cues for the spoken language identification (LID) task. Recent advanced LID systems mainly use acoustic features that lack the usage of explicit linguistic feature encoding. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Peng Shen , Xugang Lu , Hisashi Kawai

While Self-supervised Learning (SSL) has significantly improved Spoken Language Identification (LID), existing models often struggle to consistently classify dialects and accents of the same language as a unified class. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Qingzheng Wang , Hye-jin Shim , Jiancheng Sun , Shinji Watanabe

Language Identification (LID) is a challenging task, especially when the input texts are short and noisy such as posts and statuses on social media or chat logs on gaming forums. The task has been tackled by either designing a feature set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Duy Tin Vo , Richard Khoury
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