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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in multimedia content is one of the promising applications, but speech data in this kind of content are frequently mixed with background music, which is harmful for the performance of ASR. In this study,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Jeongwoo Woo , Masato Mimura , Kazuyoshi Yoshii , Tatsuya Kawahara

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in multichannel, multi-speaker scenarios remains challenging due to ambient noise, reverberation and overlapping speakers. In this paper, we propose a beamforming approach that processes specific angular…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Can Cui , Paul Magron , Mostafa Sadeghi , Emmanuel Vincent

Acoustic models in real-time speech recognition systems typically stack multiple unidirectional LSTM layers to process the acoustic frames over time. Performance improvements over vanilla LSTM architectures have been reported by prepending…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Maarten Van Segbroeck , Harish Mallidih , Brian King , I-Fan Chen , Gurpreet Chadha , Roland Maas

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often falter while processing stuttering-related disfluencies -- such as involuntary blocks and word repetitions -- yielding inaccurate transcripts. A critical barrier to progress is the scarcity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Dena Mujtaba , Nihar R. Mahapatra , Megan Arney , J. Scott Yaruss , Caryn Herring , Jia Bin

Voice activity and overlapped speech detection (respectively VAD and OSD) are key pre-processing tasks for speaker diarization. The final segmentation performance highly relies on the robustness of these sub-tasks. Recent studies have shown…

When we use End-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E-ASR) system for real-world applications, a voice activity detection (VAD) system is usually needed to improve the performance and to reduce the computational cost by discarding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-03 Meng Li , Xia Yan , Feng Lin

In recent research, slight performance improvement is observed from automatic speech recognition systems to audio-visual speech recognition systems in the end-to-end framework with low-quality videos. Unmatching convergence rates and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yusheng Dai , Hang Chen , Jun Du , Xiaofei Ding , Ning Ding , Feijun Jiang , Chin-Hui Lee

Driven by large scale datasets and LLM based architectures, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved remarkable improvements in accuracy. However, challenges persist for domain-specific terminology, and short utterances…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Jinming Chen , Lu Wang , Zheshu Song , Wei Deng

Benchmarks for language-guided embodied agents typically assume text-based instructions, but deployed agents will encounter spoken instructions. While Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models can bridge the input gap, erroneous ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Allen Chang , Xiaoyuan Zhu , Aarav Monga , Seoho Ahn , Tejas Srinivasan , Jesse Thomason

Audio-visual recognition (AVR) has been considered as a solution for speech recognition tasks when the audio is corrupted, as well as a visual recognition method used for speaker verification in multi-speaker scenarios. The approach of AVR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Amirsina Torfi , Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Nasser M. Nasrabadi , Jeremy Dawson

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) integrates acoustic and visual information to enhance robustness in adverse acoustic conditions. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have yielded competitive automatic speech recognition…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Fei Su , Cancan Li , Juan Liu , Wei Ju , Hongbin Suo , Ming Li

Multi-talker speech recognition (MT-ASR) has been shown to improve ASR performance on speech containing overlapping utterances from more than one speaker. Multi-talker models have typically been trained from scratch using simulated or…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Richard Rose , Oscar Chang , Olivier Siohan

Recently cross-channel attention, which better leverages multi-channel signals from microphone array, has shown promising results in the multi-party meeting scenario. Cross-channel attention focuses on either learning global correlations…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Fan Yu , Shiliang Zhang , Pengcheng Guo , Yuhao Liang , Zhihao Du , Yuxiao Lin , Lei Xie

Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) aims to recognize corresponding text by analyzing visual information from lip movements. Due to the high variability and weak information of lip movements, VSR tasks require effectively utilizing any…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Zehua Liu , Xiaolou Li , Chen Chen , Li Guo , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

In this paper, we present a novel modeling method for single-channel multi-talker overlapped automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Fully neural network based end-to-end models have dramatically improved the performance of multi-taker…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ryo Masumura , Daiki Okamura , Naoki Makishima , Mana Ihori , Akihiko Takashima , Tomohiro Tanaka , Shota Orihashi

Research on automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for electrolaryngeal speakers has been relatively unexplored due to small datasets. When training data is lacking in ASR, a large-scale pretraining and fine tuning framework is often…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Lester Phillip Violeta , Ding Ma , Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Toda

Audio-visual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) introduces the video modality into the speech recognition process, often by relying on information conveyed by the motion of the speaker's mouth. The use of the video signal requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Dmitriy Serdyuk , Otavio Braga , Olivier Siohan

Automatic speech recognition can potentially benefit from the lip motion patterns, complementing acoustic speech to improve the overall recognition performance, particularly in noise. In this paper we propose an audio-visual fusion strategy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-02 George Sterpu , Christian Saam , Naomi Harte

Multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been studied to generate transcriptions of natural conversation including overlapping speech of multiple speakers. Due to the difficulty in acquiring real conversation data with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Muqiao Yang , Naoyuki Kanda , Xiaofei Wang , Jian Wu , Sunit Sivasankaran , Zhuo Chen , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka

Despite recent advances in voice separation methods, many challenges remain in realistic scenarios such as noisy recording and the limits of available data. In this work, we propose to explicitly incorporate the phonetic and linguistic…