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In this paper, we propose a novel auxiliary loss function for target-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR). Our method automatically extracts and transcribes target speaker's utterances from a monaural mixture of multiple speakers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Naoyuki Kanda , Shota Horiguchi , Ryoichi Takashima , Yusuke Fujita , Kenji Nagamatsu , Shinji Watanabe

In this work, we introduce a simple yet efficient post-processing model for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Our model has Transformer-based encoder-decoder architecture which "translates" ASR model output into grammatically and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Oleksii Hrinchuk , Mariya Popova , Boris Ginsburg

Catastrophic forgetting remains a major challenge for continual learning (CL) in automatic speech recognition (ASR), where models must adapt to new domains without losing performance on previously learned conditions. Several CL methods have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Steven Vander Eeckt , Hugo Van hamme

Continual learning aims to provide intelligent agents capable of learning multiple tasks sequentially with neural networks. One of its main challenging, catastrophic forgetting, is caused by the neural networks non-optimal ability to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Ghada Sokar , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Data augmentation is one of the most effective ways to make end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) perform close to the conventional hybrid approach, especially when dealing with low-resource tasks. Using recent advances in speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Aleksandr Laptev , Roman Korostik , Aleksey Svischev , Andrei Andrusenko , Ivan Medennikov , Sergey Rybin

Conversational automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a task to recognize conversational speech including multiple speakers. Unlike sentence-level ASR, conversational ASR can naturally take advantages from specific characteristics of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Kun Wei , Yike Zhang , Sining Sun , Lei Xie , Long Ma

Incremental learning aims to learn new tasks sequentially without forgetting the previously learned ones. Most of the existing incremental learning methods for audio focus on training the model from scratch on the initial task, and the same…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Manjunath Mulimani , Annamaria Mesaros

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) traditionally assumes known domains, but adding data from a new domain raises concerns about computational inefficiencies linked to retraining models on both existing and new domains. Fine-tuning solely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Devang Kulshreshtha , Saket Dingliwal , Brady Houston , Nikolaos Pappas , Srikanth Ronanki

We propose a semi-supervised learning method for building end-to-end rich transcription-style automatic speech recognition (RT-ASR) systems from small-scale rich transcription-style and large-scale common transcription-style datasets. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Tomohiro Tanaka , Ryo Masumura , Mana Ihori , Akihiko Takashima , Shota Orihashi , Naoki Makishima

Incremental language learning with pseudo-data can alleviate catastrophic forgetting in neural networks. However, to obtain better performance, former methods have higher demands for pseudo-data of the previous tasks. The performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Han Wang , Ruiliu Fu , Chengzhang Li , Xuejun Zhang , Jun Zhou , Yonghong Yan

The ability to learn new concepts sequentially is a major weakness for modern neural networks, which hinders their use in non-stationary environments. Their propensity to fit the current data distribution to the detriment of the past…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Umberto Cappellazzo , Muqiao Yang , Daniele Falavigna , Alessio Brutti

Traditional object detectors are ill-equipped for incremental learning. However, fine-tuning directly on a well-trained detection model with only new data will lead to catastrophic forgetting. Knowledge distillation is a flexible way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Tao Feng , Mang Wang , Hangjie Yuan

Incremental class learning, a scenario in continual learning context where classes and their training data are sequentially and disjointedly observed, challenges a problem widely known as catastrophic forgetting. In this work, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Euntae Choi , Kyungmi Lee , Kiyoung Choi

We present a frontend for improving robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR), that jointly implements three modules within a single model: acoustic echo cancellation, speech enhancement, and speech separation. This is achieved by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Tom O'Malley , Arun Narayanan , Quan Wang , Alex Park , James Walker , Nathan Howard

One of the key differences between the learning mechanism of humans and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) is the ability of humans to learn one task at a time. ANNs, on the other hand, can only learn multiple tasks simultaneously. Any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Khurram Javed , Faisal Shafait

Recent advances in machine learning have demonstrated that multi-modal pre-training can improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance compared to randomly initialized models, even when models are fine-tuned on uni-modal tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yash Jain , David Chan , Pranav Dheram , Aparna Khare , Olabanji Shonibare , Venkatesh Ravichandran , Shalini Ghosh

Building an accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) system requires a large dataset that contains many hours of labeled speech samples produced by a diverse set of speakers. The lack of such open free datasets is one of the main issues…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Jason Li , Ravi Gadde , Boris Ginsburg , Vitaly Lavrukhin

Attention-based sequence-to-sequence models for speech recognition jointly train an acoustic model, language model (LM), and alignment mechanism using a single neural network and require only parallel audio-text pairs. Thus, the language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-20 Jinxi Guo , Tara N. Sainath , Ron J. Weiss

We present our experiments in training robust to noise an end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) model using intensive data augmentation. We explore the efficacy of fine-tuning a pre-trained model to improve noise robustness, and we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Jagadeesh Balam , Jocelyn Huang , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Slyne Deng , Somshubra Majumdar , Boris Ginsburg

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) is crucial for many real-world applications, but it requires dedicated modeling techniques. Existing approaches can be divided into modular and end-to-end methods. Modular approaches separate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Simon Berger , Peter Vieting , Christoph Boeddeker , Ralf Schlüter , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach