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Code-switching (CS) is common in daily conversations where more than one language is used within a sentence. The difficulties of CS speech recognition lie in alternating languages and the lack of transcribed data. Therefore, this paper uses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Liang-Hsuan Tseng , Yu-Kuan Fu , Heng-Jui Chang , Hung-yi Lee

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, increasingly prevalent in education, healthcare, employment, and mobile technology, face significant challenges in inclusivity, particularly for the 80 million-strong global community of people…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Dena Mujtaba , Nihar R. Mahapatra , Megan Arney , J. Scott Yaruss , Hope Gerlach-Houck , Caryn Herring , Jia Bin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated unparalleled effectiveness in various NLP tasks, and integrating LLMs with automatic speech recognition (ASR) is becoming a mainstream paradigm. Building upon this momentum, our research delves…

This paper presents the architecture and performance of a novel Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system developed by the Transsion Speech Team for Track 1 of the MLC-SLM 2025 Challenge. The proposed system comprises three key…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Xiaoxiao Li , An Zhu , Youhai Jiang , Fengjie Zhu

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems generalize poorly on accented speech. The phonetic and linguistic variability of accents present hard challenges for ASR systems today in both data collection and modeling strategies. The resulting…

Despite the rapid progress of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies in the past few decades, recognition of disordered speech remains a highly challenging task to date. Disordered speech presents a wide spectrum of challenges to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Shansong Liu , Mengzhe Geng , Shoukang Hu , Xurong Xie , Mingyu Cui , Jianwei Yu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Whisper speech recognition is crucial not only for ensuring privacy in sensitive communications but also for providing a critical communication bridge for patients under vocal restraint and enabling discrete interaction in noise-sensitive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Cancan Li , Fei Su , Juan Liu , Hui Bu , Yulong Wan , Hongbin Suo , Ming Li

The Speaker Diarization and Recognition (SDR) task aims to predict "who spoke when and what" within an audio clip, which is a crucial task in various real-world multi-speaker scenarios such as meeting transcription and dialogue systems.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Han Yin , Yafeng Chen , Chong Deng , Luyao Cheng , Hui Wang , Chao-Hong Tan , Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Xiangang Li

This paper introduces a new corpus of Mandarin-English code-switching speech recognition--TALCS corpus, suitable for training and evaluating code-switching speech recognition systems. TALCS corpus is derived from real online one-to-one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Chengfei Li , Shuhao Deng , Yaoping Wang , Guangjing Wang , Yaguang Gong , Changbin Chen , Jinfeng Bai

Pre-trained models, especially self-supervised learning (SSL) models, have demonstrated impressive results in automatic speech recognition (ASR) task. While most applications of SSL models focus on leveraging continuous representations as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Zehan Li , Yan Yang , Xueqing Li , Jian Kang , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Jie Li

Recent development of speech processing, such as speech recognition, speaker diarization, etc., has inspired numerous applications of speech technologies. The meeting scenario is one of the most valuable and, at the same time, most…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Fan Yu , Shiliang Zhang , Yihui Fu , Lei Xie , Siqi Zheng , Zhihao Du , Weilong Huang , Pengcheng Guo , Zhijie Yan , Bin Ma , Xin Xu , Hui Bu

The goal of multilingual speech technology is to facilitate seamless communication between individuals speaking different languages, creating the experience as though everyone were a multilingual speaker. To create this experience, speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Supriti Sinhamahapatra , Thai-Binh Nguyen , Yiğit Oğuz , Enes Ugan , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is increasingly used in applications involving child speech, such as language learning and literacy acquisition. However, the effectiveness of such applications is limited by high ASR error rates. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Gus Lathouwers , Lingyun Gao , Catia Cucchiarini , Helmer Strik

Although Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have become an integral part of modern technology, their evaluation remains challenging, particularly for low-resource languages such as Persian. This paper introduces Persian Speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Nima Sedghiyeh , Sara Sadeghi , Reza Khodadadi , Farzin Kashani , Omid Aghdaei , Somayeh Rahimi , Mohammad Sadegh Safari

This paper presents the TEA-ASLP's system submitted to the MLC-SLM 2025 Challenge, addressing multilingual conversational automatic speech recognition (ASR) in Task I and speech diarization ASR in Task II. For Task I, we enhance Ideal-LLM…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Hongfei Xue , Kaixun Huang , Zhikai Zhou , Shen Huang , Shidong Shang

Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) over the last decade opened new areas of speech-based automation such as in Air-Traffic Control (ATC) environment. Currently, voice communication and data links communications are the only way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Petr Motlicek , Qingran Zhan , Karel Vesely , Rudolf Braun

Building a high quality automatic speech recognition (ASR) system with limited training data has been a challenging task particularly for a narrow target population. Open-sourced ASR systems, trained on sufficient data from adults, are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Liu Chen , Meysam Asgari

This study presents a model of automatic speech recognition (ASR) designed to diagnose pronunciation issues in children with speech sound disorders (SSDs) to replace manual transcriptions in clinical procedures. Since ASR models trained for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Taekyung Ahn , Yeonjung Hong , Younggon Im , Do Hyung Kim , Dayoung Kang , Joo Won Jeong , Jae Won Kim , Min Jung Kim , Ah-ra Cho , Dae-Hyun Jang , Hosung Nam

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

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) models often experience performance degradation due to data domain shifts introduced at test time, a challenge that is further amplified for child speakers. Test-time adaptation (TTA) methods have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhonghao Shi , Xuan Shi , Anfeng Xu , Tiantian Feng , Harshvardhan Srivastava , Shrikanth Narayanan , Maja J. Matarić