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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in the medical domain that focus on transcribing clinical dictations and doctor-patient conversations often pose many challenges due to the complexity of the domain. ASR output typically undergoes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Monica Sunkara , Srikanth Ronanki , Kalpit Dixit , Sravan Bodapati , Katrin Kirchhoff

One of the challenges in automatic speech recognition is foreign words recognition. It is observed that a speaker's pronunciation of a foreign word is influenced by his native language knowledge, and such phenomenon is known as the effect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Lei Wang , Rong Tong

We study the effect of applying a language model (LM) on the output of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for Indic languages. We fine-tune wav2vec $2.0$ models for $18$ Indic languages and adjust the results with language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Ankur Dhuriya , Harveen Singh Chadha , Anirudh Gupta , Priyanshi Shah , Neeraj Chhimwal , Rishabh Gaur , Vivek Raghavan

Transformer-based models have led to significant innovation in classical and practical subjects as varied as speech processing, natural language processing, and computer vision. On top of the Transformer, attention-based end-to-end…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Fu-Hao Yu , Kuan-Yu Chen

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a core component of human--computer interaction and an increasingly important front-end for LLM-based assistants and agents. However, most current ASR systems still follow a single-pass paradigm, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zixuan Jiang , Yanqiao Zhu , Peng Wang , Qinyuan Chen , Xinjian Zhao , Xipeng Qiu , Wupeng Wang , Zhifu Gao , Xiangang Li , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

Word error rate (WER) and character error rate (CER) are standard metrics in Speech Recognition (ASR), but one problem has always been alternative spellings: If one's system transcribes adviser whereas the ground truth has advisor, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Shigeki Karita , Richard Sproat , Haruko Ishikawa

Sequence-to-sequence attention-based models have recently shown very promising results on automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks, which integrate an acoustic, pronunciation and language model into a single neural network. In these models,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-05 Shiyu Zhou , Linhao Dong , Shuang Xu , Bo Xu

Recently, self-supervised pre-training has gained success in automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, considering the difference between speech accents in real scenarios, how to identify accents and use accent features to improve ASR is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-16 Keqi Deng , Songjun Cao , Long Ma

In recent years, studies on automatic speech recognition (ASR) have shown outstanding results that reach human parity on short speech segments. However, there are still difficulties in standardizing the output of ASR such as capitalization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Binh Nguyen , Vu Bao Hung Nguyen , Hien Nguyen , Pham Ngoc Phuong , The-Loc Nguyen , Quoc Truong Do , Luong Chi Mai

Error correction techniques have been used to refine the output sentences from automatic speech recognition (ASR) models and achieve a lower word error rate (WER). Previous works usually adopt end-to-end models and has strong dependency on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Jiaxin Guo , Minghan Wang , Xiaosong Qiao , Daimeng Wei , Hengchao Shang , Zongyao Li , Zhengzhe Yu , Yinglu Li , Chang Su , Min Zhang , Shimin Tao , Hao Yang

Non-autoregressive (NAR) automatic speech recognition (ASR) models predict tokens independently and simultaneously, bringing high inference speed. However, there is still a gap in the accuracy of the NAR models compared to the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Ziyang Zhuang , Chenfeng Miao , Kun Zou , Ming Fang , Tao Wei , Zijian Li , Ning Cheng , Wei Hu , Shaojun Wang , Jing Xiao

In this article, we present an approach for non native automatic speech recognition (ASR). We propose two methods to adapt existing ASR systems to the non-native accents. The first method is based on the modification of acoustic models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-11-08 Ghazi Bouselmi , Dominique Fohr , Irina Illina , Jean-Paul Haton

In this paper, we present our overall efforts to improve the performance of a code-switching speech recognition system using semi-supervised training methods from lexicon learning to acoustic modeling, on the South East Asian…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Pengcheng Guo , Haihua Xu , Lei Xie , Eng Siong Chng

ASR short for Automatic Speech Recognition is the process of converting a spoken speech into text that can be manipulated by a computer. Although ASR has several applications, it is still erroneous and imprecise especially if used in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-03-26 Youssef Bassil , Mohammad Alwani

We evaluate the character-level translation method for neural semantic parsing on a large corpus of sentences annotated with Abstract Meaning Representations (AMRs). Using a sequence-to-sequence model, and some trivial preprocessing and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Rik van Noord , Johan Bos

Accurately finding the wrong words in the automatic speech recognition (ASR) hypothesis and recovering them well-founded is the goal of speech error correction. In this paper, we propose a non-autoregressive speech error correction method.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Yuchun Shu , Bo Hu , Yifeng He , Hao Shi , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Training deep neural networks for automatic speech recognition (ASR) requires large amounts of transcribed speech. This becomes a bottleneck for training robust models for accented speech which typically contains high variability in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Nilaksh Das , Sravan Bodapati , Monica Sunkara , Sundararajan Srinivasan , Duen Horng Chau

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is widely used in consumer electronics. ASR greatly improves the utility and accessibility of technology, but usually the output is only word sequences without punctuation. This can result in ambiguity in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Andrew Silva , Barry-John Theobald , Nicholas Apostoloff

The transcription quality of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems degrades significantly when transcribing audios coming from unseen domains. We propose an unsupervised error correction method for unsupervised ASR domain adaption,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Long Mai , Julie Carson-Berndsen

Code-switching speech refers to a means of expression by mixing two or more languages within a single utterance. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with End-to-End (E2E) modeling for such speech can be a challenging task due to the lack of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Haibin Yu , Yuxuan Hu , Yao Qian , Ma Jin , Linquan Liu , Shujie Liu , Yu Shi , Yanmin Qian , Edward Lin , Michael Zeng