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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have been evolving quickly and reaching human parity in certain cases. The systems usually perform pretty well on reading style and clean speech, however, most of the available systems suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Quang Minh Nguyen , Thai Binh Nguyen , Ngoc Phuong Pham , The Loc Nguyen

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a capability which enables a program to process human speech into a written form. Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have led to high-accuracy ASR systems based on deep neural networks,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-05 Thomas Bohnstingl , Ayush Garg , Stanisław Woźniak , George Saon , Evangelos Eleftheriou , Angeliki Pantazi

This paper presents a novel hybrid Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system designed specifically for resource-constrained robots. The proposed approach combines Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) with deep learning models and leverages socket…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Anshul Ranjan , Kaushik Jegadeesan

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a pivotal role in understanding human communication, enabling emotionally intelligent systems, and serving as a fundamental component in the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Yuanchao Li

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

Currently, end-to-end (E2E) speech recognition methods have achieved promising performance. However, auto speech recognition (ASR) models still face challenges in recognizing multi-accent speech accurately. We propose a layer-adapted fusion…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jinming Chen , Jingyi Fang , Yuanzhong Zheng , Yaoxuan Wang , Haojun Fei

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is becoming a ubiquitous technology. Although its accuracy is closing the gap with that of human level under certain settings, one area that can further improve is to incorporate user-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Young Mo Kang , Yingbo Zhou

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has made remarkable progress but heavily relies on large-scale labeled data, which is scarce for low-resource languages like Vietnamese. While existing systems such as Whisper, USM, and MMS achieve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Jianheng Zhuo , Yifan Yang , Yiwen Shao , Yong Xu , Dong Yu , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

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

Recently, speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) has attracted a wide attention, which aims at answering the question ``who spoke what''. Different from modular systems, end-to-end (E2E) SA-ASR minimizes the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Mohan Shi , Zhihao Du , Qian Chen , Fan Yu , Yangze Li , Shiliang Zhang , Jie Zhang , Li-Rong Dai

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models have achieved considerable improvements in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In addition, ASR performance could be further improved if the model is dedicated to audio content information learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-08 Genshun Wan , Tan Liu , Hang Chen , Jia Pan , Cong Liu , Zhongfu Ye

All-neural end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems that use a single neural network to transduce audio to word sequences have been shown to achieve state-of-the-art results on several tasks. In this work, we examine the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Arun Narayanan , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Chung-Cheng Chiu , David Rybach , Tara N. Sainath , Trevor Strohman

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies have transformed human-computer interaction; however, low-resource languages in Africa remain significantly underrepresented in both research and practical applications. This study…

We propose a novel end-to-end multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) framework that enables both multi-speaker (MS) ASR and target-speaker (TS) ASR. Our proposed model is trained in a fully end-to-end manner, incorporating speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Jinhan Wang , Weiqing Wang , Kunal Dhawan , Taejin Park , Myungjong Kim , Ivan Medennikov , He Huang , Nithin Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

With the recent advances in technology, automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been widely used in real-world applications. The efficiency of converting large amounts of speech into text accurately with limited resources has become more…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Yoo Rhee Oh , Kiyoung Park , Jeon Gyu Park

Speech-to-text translation pertains to the task of converting speech signals in a language to text in another language. It finds its application in various domains, such as hands-free communication, dictation, video lecture transcription,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Nivedita Sethiya , Chandresh Kumar Maurya

Multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have garnered attention for their potential to extend language coverage globally. While self-supervised learning (SSL) models, like MMS, have demonstrated their effectiveness in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Hongfei Xue , Qijie Shao , Kaixun Huang , Peikun Chen , Jie Liu , Lei Xie

In recent years, automatic speech recognition (ASR) has witnessed transformative advancements driven by three complementary paradigms: data scaling, model size scaling, and deep integration with large language models (LLMs). However, LLMs…

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

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