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The paper describes the BUT's speech translation systems. The systems are English$\longrightarrow$German offline speech translation systems. The systems are based on our previous works \cite{Jointly_trained_transformers}. Though End-to-End…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Hari Krishna Vydana , Lukas Burget , Jan Cernocky

Joint training of speech enhancement model (SE) and speech recognition model (ASR) is a common solution for robust ASR in noisy environments. SE focuses on improving the auditory quality of speech, but the enhanced feature distribution is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Tianrui Wang , Weibin Zhu , Yingying Gao , Junlan Feng , Shilei Zhang

Automatic speech recognition systems based on deep learning are mainly trained under empirical risk minimization (ERM). Since ERM utilizes the averaged performance on the data samples regardless of a group such as healthy or dysarthric…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Eungbeom Kim , Yunkee Chae , Jaeheon Sim , Kyogu Lee

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are a crucial technology that is used today to design a wide variety of applications, most notably, smart assistants, such as Alexa. ASR systems are essentially dialogue systems that employ Spoken…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Moayad Elamin , Muhammad Omer , Yonas Chanie , Henslaac Ndlovu

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems can be trained to achieve remarkable performance given large amounts of manually transcribed speech, but large labeled data sets can be difficult or expensive to acquire for all languages of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Hanan Aldarmaki , Asad Ullah , Nazar Zaki

New-age conversational agent systems perform both speech emotion recognition (SER) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) using two separate and often independent approaches for real-world application in noisy environments. In this paper,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-29 Lokesh Bansal , S. Pavankumar Dubagunta , Malolan Chetlur , Pushpak Jagtap , Aravind Ganapathiraju

The performance of voice-controlled systems is usually influenced by accented speech. To make these systems more robust, the frontend accent recognition (AR) technologies have received increased attention in recent years. As accent is a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Zhan Zhang , Xi Chen , Yuehai Wang , Jianyi Yang

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have achieved remarkable performance on widely used benchmarks such as LibriSpeech and Fleurs. However, these benchmarks do not adequately reflect the complexities of real-world conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Gaurav Maheshwari , Dmitry Ivanov , Théo Johannet , Kevin El Haddad

Multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) in conversational recordings remains an open problem, particularly in scenarios with large portion of overlapping speech where identifying and transcribing a target speaker is difficult from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Dominik Klement , Alexander Polok , Nguyen Hai Phong , Prachi Singh , Lukáš Burget

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

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems play a key role in many commercial products including voice assistants. Typically, they require large amounts of clean speech data for training which gives an undue advantage to large organizations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 Bhavya Ghai , Buvana Ramanan , Klaus Mueller

We propose a simple method for automatic speech recognition (ASR) by fine-tuning BERT, which is a language model (LM) trained on large-scale unlabeled text data and can generate rich contextual representations. Our assumption is that given…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Wen-Chin Huang , Chia-Hua Wu , Shang-Bao Luo , Kuan-Yu Chen , Hsin-Min Wang , Tomoki Toda

Thanks to the rise of self-supervised learning, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems now achieve near-human performance on a wide variety of datasets. However, they still lack generalization capability and are not robust to domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Lucas Maison , Yannick Estève

Building inclusive speech recognition systems is a crucial step towards developing technologies that speakers of all language varieties can use. Therefore, ASR systems must work for everybody independently of the way they speak. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Alëna Aksënova , Zhehuai Chen , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Daan van Esch , Pavel Golik , Wei Han , Levi King , Bhuvana Ramabhadran , Andrew Rosenberg , Suzan Schwartz , Gary Wang

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

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, largely driven by the emergence of LLM-based ASR paradigm. Despite their strong performance on a variety of open-source benchmarks, existing LLM-based ASR…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zheshu Song , Lu Wang , Wei Deng , Zhuo Yang , Yong Wu , Bin Xia

Speech impairments resulting from congenital disorders, such as cerebral palsy, down syndrome, or apert syndrome, as well as acquired brain injuries due to stroke, traumatic accidents, or tumors, present major challenges to automatic speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Niclas Pokel , Pehuén Moure , Roman Boehringer , Shih-Chii Liu , Yingqiang Gao

As speech recognition model sizes and training data requirements grow, it is increasingly common for systems to only be available via APIs from online service providers rather than having direct access to models themselves. In this scenario…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Rao Ma , Mengjie Qian , Mark J. F. Gales , Kate M. Knill

Speech accents pose a significant challenge to state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Degradation in performance across underrepresented accents is a severe deterrent to the inclusive adoption of ASR. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Darshan Prabhu , Preethi Jyothi , Sriram Ganapathy , Vinit Unni

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, increasingly prevalent in education, healthcare, employment, and mobile technology, face significant challenges in inclusivity, particularly for the 80 million-strong global community of people…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Dena Mujtaba , Nihar R. Mahapatra , Megan Arney , J. Scott Yaruss , Hope Gerlach-Houck , Caryn Herring , Jia Bin