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The end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are often required to operate in reverberant conditions, where the long-term sub-band envelopes of the speech are temporally smeared. In this paper, we develop a feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Rohit Kumar , Anurenjan Purushothaman , Anirudh Sreeram , Sriram Ganapathy

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E ASR) systems have significantly improved speech recognition through training on extensive datasets. Despite these advancements, they still struggle to accurately recognize domain specific words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Jiwon Suh , Injae Na , Woohwan Jung

In recent years, the evolution of end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) models has been remarkable, largely due to advances in deep learning architectures like transformer. On top of E2E systems, researchers have achieved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Shiyi Han , Zhihong Lei , Mingbin Xu , Xingyu Na , Zhen Huang

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) methods exhibit remarkable performance. However, since the performance of such methods is intrinsically linked to the context present in the training data, E2E-ASR methods do not perform…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Yui Sudo , Muhammad Shakeel , Yosuke Fukumoto , Yifan Peng , Shinji Watanabe

End-to-end (E2E) systems have shown comparable performance to hybrid systems for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Word timings, as a by-product of ASR, are essential in many applications, especially for subtitling and computer-aided…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Xianzhao Chen , Yist Y. Lin , Kang Wang , Yi He , Zejun Ma

Advances in machine learning have made it possible to perform various text and speech processing tasks, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), in an end-to-end (E2E) manner. E2E approaches utilizing pre-trained models are gaining…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Yukiya Hono , Koh Mitsuda , Tianyu Zhao , Kentaro Mitsui , Toshiaki Wakatsuki , Kei Sawada

In this paper, we explore various approaches for semi supervised learning in an end to end automatic speech recognition (ASR) framework. The first step in our approach involves training a seed model on the limited amount of labelled data.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-15 Subhadeep Dey , Petr Motlicek , Trung Bui , Franck Dernoncourt

Sequence-to-sequence attention-based models integrate an acoustic, pronunciation and language model into a single neural network, which make them very suitable for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this paper, we are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-15 Shiyu Zhou , Shuang Xu , Bo Xu

End-to-end (E2E) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models are trained using paired audio-text samples that are expensive to obtain, since high-quality ground-truth data requires human annotators. Voice search applications, such as digital…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Christophe Van Gysel , Maggie Wu , Lyan Verwimp , Caglar Tirkaz , Marco Bertola , Zhihong Lei , Youssef Oualil

Compared to hybrid automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems that use a modular architecture in which each component can be independently adapted to a new domain, recent end-to-end (E2E) ASR system are harder to customize due to their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Samuel Thomas , Brian Kingsbury , George Saon , Hong-Kwang J. Kuo

The external language models (LM) integration remains a challenging task for end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) which has no clear division between acoustic and language models. In this work, we propose an internal LM…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Zhong Meng , Sarangarajan Parthasarathy , Eric Sun , Yashesh Gaur , Naoyuki Kanda , Liang Lu , Xie Chen , Rui Zhao , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

Confidence estimate is an often requested feature in applications such as medical transcription where errors can impact patient care and the confidence estimate could be used to alert medical professionals to verify potential errors in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Mingqiu Wang , Hagen Soltau , Laurent El Shafey , Izhak Shafran

Code-switching deals with alternative languages in communication process. Training end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for code-switching is especially challenging as code-switching training data are always…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Shuai Zhang , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengkun Tian , Jianhua Tao , Yu Ting Yeung , Liqun Deng

We study training a single end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for three languages used in Kazakhstan: Kazakh, Russian, and English. We first describe the development of multilingual E2E ASR based on Transformer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-04 Saida Mussakhojayeva , Yerbolat Khassanov , Huseyin Atakan Varol

The performance of end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems enables their increasing integration into numerous applications. While there are various benefits to such speech-to-text systems, the choice of hyperparameters and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Thibault Bañeras-Roux , Mickael Rouvier , Jane Wottawa , Richard Dufour

In this paper we propose a novel data augmentation method for attention-based end-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E-ASR), utilizing a large amount of text which is not paired with speech signals. Inspired by the back-translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Tomoki Hayashi , Shinji Watanabe , Yu Zhang , Tomoki Toda , Takaaki Hori , Ramon Astudillo , Kazuya Takeda

End-to-end (E2E) systems for automatic speech recognition (ASR), such as RNN Transducer (RNN-T) and Listen-Attend-Spell (LAS) blend the individual components of a traditional hybrid ASR system - acoustic model, language model, pronunciation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Mahaveer Jain , Gil Keren , Jay Mahadeokar , Geoffrey Zweig , Florian Metze , Yatharth Saraf

Speech enhancement (SE) systems are typically evaluated using a variety of instrumental metrics. The use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to evaluate SE performance is common in literature, usually in terms of word error rate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Danilo de Oliveira , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

Acoustic-to-word (A2W) end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have attracted attention because of an extremely simplified architecture and fast decoding. To alleviate data sparseness issues due to infrequent words, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Hirofumi Inaguma , Masato Mimura , Shinsuke Sakai , Tatsuya Kawahara

All-neural, end-to-end ASR systems gained rapid interest from the speech recognition community. Such systems convert speech input to text units using a single trainable neural network model. E2E models require large amounts of paired speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Rongqing Huang