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Text encodings from automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts and audio representations have shown promise in speech emotion recognition (SER) ever since. Yet, it is challenging to explain the effect of each information stream on the…

A deep learning approach has been widely applied in sequence modeling problems. In terms of automatic speech recognition (ASR), its performance has significantly been improved by increasing large speech corpus and deeper neural network.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Zewang Zhang , Zheng Sun , Jiaqi Liu , Jingwen Chen , Zhao Huo , Xiao Zhang

Streaming speech enhancement is a crucial task for real-time applications such as online meetings, smart home appliances, and hearing aids. Deep neural network-based approaches achieve exceptional performance while demanding substantial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Sunghwan Ahn , Jinmo Han , Beom Jun Woo , Nam Soo Kim

The demand for fast and accurate incremental speech recognition increases as the applications of automatic speech recognition (ASR) proliferate. Incremental speech recognizers output chunks of partially recognized words while the user is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Yuan Shangguan , Kate Knister , Yanzhang He , Ian McGraw , Francoise Beaufays

Although modern automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems can achieve high performance, they may produce errors that weaken readers' experience and do harm to downstream tasks. To improve the accuracy and reliability of ASR hypotheses, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Jing Du , Shiliang Pu , Qinbo Dong , Chao Jin , Xin Qi , Dian Gu , Ru Wu , Hongwei Zhou

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are frequently exposed to data distribution shifts in many real-world scenarios, leading to erroneous predictions. To tackle this issue, an existing test-time adaptation (TTA) method has recently…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Changhun Kim , Joonhyung Park , Hajin Shim , Eunho Yang

With increasingly more powerful compute capabilities and resources in today's devices, traditionally compute-intensive automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been moving from the cloud to devices to better protect user privacy. However, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Mingbin Xu , Alex Jin , Sicheng Wang , Mu Su , Tim Ng , Henry Mason , Shiyi Han , Zhihong Lei , Yaqiao Deng , Zhen Huang , Mahesh Krishnamoorthy

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has the potential to substantially reduce manual annotation effort in child speech research by generating automatic transcriptions. However, obtaining reliably high-quality ASR transcriptions for child…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Gus Lathouwers , Lingyun Gao , Catia Cucchiarini , Helmer Strik

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

ASR endpointing (EP) plays a major role in delivering a good user experience in products supporting human or artificial agents in human-human/machine conversations. Transducer-based ASR (T-ASR) is an end-to-end (E2E) ASR modelling technique…

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) models rely on high-quality transcribed data for effective training. Generating pseudo-labels for large unlabeled audio datasets often relies on complex pipelines that combine multiple ASR outputs through…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Jeena Prakash , Blessingh Kumar , Kadri Hacioglu , Bidisha Sharma , Sindhuja Gopalan , Malolan Chetlur , Shankar Venkatesan , Andreas Stolcke

Attention-based sequence-to-sequence automatic speech recognition (ASR) requires a significant delay to recognize long utterances because the output is generated after receiving entire input sequences. Although several studies recently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Sashi Novitasari , Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura

Post-editing in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) entails automatically correcting common and systematic errors produced by the ASR system. The outputs of an ASR system are largely prone to phonetic and spelling errors. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Samrat Dutta , Shreyansh Jain , Ayush Maheshwari , Souvik Pal , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Preethi Jyothi

Streaming end-to-end multi-talker speech recognition aims at transcribing the overlapped speech from conversations or meetings with an all-neural model in a streaming fashion, which is fundamentally different from a modular-based approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Liang Lu , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

Punctuation and word casing prediction are necessary for automatic speech recognition (ASR). With the popularity of on-device end-to-end streaming ASR systems, the on-device punctuation and word casing prediction become a necessity while we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jian You , Xiangfeng Li

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) with an encoder equipped with self-attention, whether streaming or non-streaming, takes quadratic time in the length of the speech utterance. This slows down training and decoding, increase their cost, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Titouan Parcollet , Rogier van Dalen , Shucong Zhang , Sourav Batthacharya

Language models play a central role in automatic speech recognition (ASR), yet most methods rely on text-only models unaware of ASR error patterns. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been applied to ASR correction, but introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zijin Gu , Tatiana Likhomanenko , He Bai , Erik McDermott , Ronan Collobert , Navdeep Jaitly

Longform audio recordings obtained with microphones worn by children-also known as child-centered daylong recordings-have become a standard method for studying children's language experiences and their impact on subsequent language…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Daniil Kocharov , Okko Räsänen

The black-box nature of end-to-end speech translation (E2E ST) systems makes it difficult to understand how source language inputs are being mapped to the target language. To solve this problem, we would like to simultaneously generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Motoi Omachi , Brian Yan , Siddharth Dalmia , Yuya Fujita , Shinji Watanabe

Sequence-to-sequence models, such as attention-based models in automatic speech recognition (ASR), are typically trained to optimize the cross-entropy criterion which corresponds to improving the log-likelihood of the data. However, system…

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