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Recent advances in speech-aware language models have coupled strong acoustic encoders with large language models, enabling systems that move beyond transcription to produce richer outputs. Among these, word-level timestamp prediction is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Xulin Fan , Vishal Sunder , Samuel Thomas , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Brian Kingsbury , George Saon

This paper investigates the use of target-speaker automatic speech recognition (TS-ASR) for simultaneous speech recognition and speaker diarization of single-channel dialogue recordings. TS-ASR is a technique to automatically extract and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Naoyuki Kanda , Shota Horiguchi , Yusuke Fujita , Yawen Xue , Kenji Nagamatsu , Shinji Watanabe

Multi-speaker speech recognition of unsegmented recordings has diverse applications such as meeting transcription and automatic subtitle generation. With technical advances in systems dealing with speech separation, speaker diarization, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Desh Raj , Pavel Denisov , Zhuo Chen , Hakan Erdogan , Zili Huang , Maokui He , Shinji Watanabe , Jun Du , Takuya Yoshioka , Yi Luo , Naoyuki Kanda , Jinyu Li , Scott Wisdom , John R. Hershey

Speech applications dealing with conversations require not only recognizing the spoken words but also determining who spoke when. The task of assigning words to speakers is typically addressed by merging the outputs of two separate systems,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Grigor Kirakosyan , Davit Karamyan

This paper describes noisy speech recognition for an augmented reality headset that helps verbal communication within real multiparty conversational environments. A major approach that has actively been studied in simulated environments is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 Yicheng Du , Aditya Arie Nugraha , Kouhei Sekiguchi , Yoshiaki Bando , Mathieu Fontaine , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) in multi-party meeting scenarios is one of the most valuable and challenging ASR task. It was shown that single-channel frame-level diarization with serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Mohan Shi , Jie Zhang , Zhihao Du , Fan Yu , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Li-Rong Dai

Speaker Diarization (SD) is a crucial component of modern end-to-end ASR pipelines. Traditional SD systems, which are typically audio-based and operate independently of ASR, often introduce speaker errors, particularly during speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Anurag Kumar , Rohit Paturi , Amber Afshan , Sundararajan Srinivasan

Audio-visual automatic speech recognition is a promising approach to robust ASR under noisy conditions. However, up until recently it had been traditionally studied in isolation assuming the video of a single speaking face matches the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-13 Otavio Braga , Olivier Siohan

Speaker diarization is a task to label audio or video recordings with classes that correspond to speaker identity, or in short, a task to identify "who spoke when". In the early years, speaker diarization algorithms were developed for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Tae Jin Park , Naoyuki Kanda , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Kyu J. Han , Shinji Watanabe , Shrikanth Narayanan

Speaker Diarization is the problem of separating speakers in an audio. There could be any number of speakers and final result should state when speaker starts and ends. In this project, we analyze given audio file with 2 channels and 2…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Vishal Sharma , Zekun Zhang , Zachary Neubert , Curtis Dyreson

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

Accurate transcription and speaker diarization of child-adult spoken interactions are crucial for developmental and clinical research. However, manual annotation is time-consuming and challenging to scale. Existing automated systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Anfeng Xu , Tiantian Feng , Somer Bishop , Catherine Lord , Shrikanth Narayanan

State-of-the-art large-scale universal speech models (USMs) show a decent automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance across multiple domains and languages. However, it remains a challenge for these models to recognize overlapped speech,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Chenda Li , Yao Qian , Zhuo Chen , Naoyuki Kanda , Dongmei Wang , Takuya Yoshioka , Yanmin Qian , Michael Zeng

Speaker Diarization (SD) aims at grouping speech segments that belong to the same speaker. This task is required in many speech-processing applications, such as rich meeting transcription. In this context, distant microphone arrays usually…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Theo Mariotte , Anthony Larcher , Silvio Montresor , Jean-Hugh Thomas

Dysarthric speech recognition faces challenges from severity variations and disparities relative to normal speech. Conventional approaches individually fine-tune ASR models pre-trained on normal speech per patient to prevent feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Qing Xiao , Yingshan Peng , PeiPei Zhang

Since the first speech recognition systems were built more than 30 years ago, improvement in voice technology has enabled applications such as smart assistants and automated customer support. However, conversation intelligence of the future…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Desh Raj

Recent advances in audio-language models have demonstrated remarkable success on short, segment-level speech tasks. However, real-world applications such as meeting transcription, spoken document understanding, and conversational analysis…

This paper presents a novel evaluation approach to text-based speaker diarization (SD), tackling the limitations of traditional metrics that do not account for any contextual information in text. Two new metrics are proposed, Text-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Chen Gong , Peilin Wu , Jinho D. Choi

While standard speaker diarization attempts to answer the question "who spoken when", most of relevant applications in reality are more interested in determining "who spoken what". Whether it is the conventional modularized approach or the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Yiling Huang , Weiran Wang , Guanlong Zhao , Hank Liao , Wei Xia , Quan Wang

Despite recent advances, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are still far from perfect. Typical errors include acronyms, named entities, and domain-specific special words for which little or no labeled data is available. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Christian Huber , Alexander Waibel