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Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a task aiming to extract high-level semantics from spoken utterances. Previous works have investigated the use of speech self-supervised models and textual pre-trained models, which have shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Jiatong Shi , Chan-Jan Hsu , Holam Chung , Dongji Gao , Paola Garcia , Shinji Watanabe , Ann Lee , Hung-yi Lee

Punctuation restoration is an important task in automatic speech recognition (ASR) which aim to restore the syntactic structure of generated ASR texts to improve readability. While punctuated texts are abundant from written documents, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Viet Dac Lai , Abel Salinas , Hao Tan , Trung Bui , Quan Tran , Seunghyun Yoon , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Franck Dernoncourt , Thien Huu Nguyen

In the domain of air traffic control (ATC) systems, efforts to train a practical automatic speech recognition (ASR) model always faces the problem of small training samples since the collection and annotation of speech samples are expert-…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Yi Lin , Qin Li , Bo Yang , Zhen Yan , Huachun Tan , Zhengmao Chen

With the advancement of deep learning techniques, the performance of Automatic Program Repair(APR) techniques has reached a new level. Previous deep learning-based APR techniques essentially modified program sentences in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhenyu Yang , Zhen Yang , Zhongxing Yu

One common approach for question answering over speech data is to first transcribe speech using automatic speech recognition (ASR) and then employ text-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) on the transcriptions. While this cascaded…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Do June Min , Karel Mundnich , Andy Lapastora , Erfan Soltanmohammadi , Srikanth Ronanki , Kyu Han

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a technology that converts spoken words into text, facilitating interaction between humans and machines. One of the most common applications of ASR is Speech-To-Text (STT) technology, which simplifies…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Jaeyoung Huh , Sangjoon Park , Jeong Eun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Building Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for code-switched speech has recently gained renewed attention due to the widespread use of speech technologies in multilingual communities worldwide. End-to-end ASR systems are a natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yash Sharma , Basil Abraham , Karan Taneja , Preethi Jyothi

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has reached impressive accuracy for high-resource languages, yet its utility in linguistic fieldwork remains limited. Recordings collected in fieldwork contexts present unique challenges, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Siyu Liang , Gina-Anne Levow

Developers need to perform adequate testing to ensure the quality of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. However, manually collecting required test cases is tedious and time-consuming. Our recent work proposes CrossASR, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Muhammad Hilmi Asyrofi , Zhou Yang , David Lo

With computers getting more and more powerful and integrated in our daily lives, the focus is increasingly shifting towards more human-friendly interfaces, making Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) a central player as the ideal means of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Dennis Pinto , Jose-María Arnau , Antonio González

End-to-end models for robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) have not been sufficiently well-explored in prior work. With end-to-end models, one could choose to preprocess the input speech using speech enhancement techniques and train…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-15 Archiki Prasad , Preethi Jyothi , Rajbabu Velmurugan

Many studies have shown automatic speech processing (ASR) systems have unequal performance across speakergroups (SG's). However, the manner in which such studies arrive at this conclusion is inconsistent. To pave the wayfor more reliable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Felix Herron , Ange Richard , François Portet , Alexandre Allauzen , Solange Rossato

In the realm of automatic speech recognition (ASR), robustness in noisy environments remains a significant challenge. Recent ASR models, such as Whisper, have shown promise, but their efficacy in noisy conditions can be further enhanced.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yehoshua Dissen , Shiry Yonash , Israel Cohen , Joseph Keshet

This paper proposes an efficient attempt to noisy speech emotion recognition (NSER). Conventional NSER approaches have proven effective in mitigating the impact of artificial noise sources, such as white Gaussian noise, but are limited to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xiaohan Shi , Jiajun He , Xingfeng Li , Tomoki Toda

In recent years, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have significantly improved, especially in languages with a vast amount of transcribed speech data. However, ASR systems tend to perform poorly for low-resource languages with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ara Yeroyan , Nikolay Karpov

Neural sequence-to-sequence systems deliver state-of-the-art performance for automatic speech recognition (ASR). When using appropriate modeling units, e.g., byte-pair encoded characters, these systems are in principal open vocabulary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Christian Huber , Juan Hussain , Sebastian Stüker , Alexander Waibel

Neural network models for audio tasks, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and acoustic scene classification (ASC), are susceptible to noise contamination for real-life applications. To improve audio quality, an enhancement module,…

Sequence-to-sequence automatic speech recognition (ASR) models require large quantities of data to attain high performance. For this reason, there has been a recent surge in interest for unsupervised and semi-supervised training in such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Murali Karthick Baskar , Shinji Watanabe , Ramon Astudillo , Takaaki Hori , Lukáš Burget , Jan Černocký

Speech impairments caused by conditions such as cerebral palsy or genetic disorders pose significant challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Despite recent advances, ASR models like Whisper struggle with non-normative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Niclas Pokel , Pehuén Moure , Roman Boehringer , Yingqiang Gao

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are commonly evaluated using aggregate metrics such as Word Error Rate (WER), which do not capture the linguistic structure of errors. Fine-grained analysis, such as Part-of-Speech (PoS)-wise error…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Prasenjit K Mudi , Dahlia Devapriya , Sheetal Kalyani