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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 models have achieved impressive results on the task of automatic speech recognition (ASR). For low-resource ASR tasks, however, labeled data can hardly satisfy the demand of end-to-end models. Self-supervised acoustic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Cheng Yi , Shiyu Zhou , Bo Xu

We propose a semi-supervised learning method for building end-to-end rich transcription-style automatic speech recognition (RT-ASR) systems from small-scale rich transcription-style and large-scale common transcription-style datasets. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Tomohiro Tanaka , Ryo Masumura , Mana Ihori , Akihiko Takashima , Shota Orihashi , Naoki Makishima

We present an end-to-end multichannel speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (MC-SA-ASR) system that combines a Conformer-based encoder with multi-frame crosschannel attention and a speaker-attributed Transformer-based decoder. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Can Cui , Imran Ahamad Sheikh , Mostafa Sadeghi , Emmanuel Vincent

Targeting at both high efficiency and performance, we propose AlignTTS to predict the mel-spectrum in parallel. AlignTTS is based on a Feed-Forward Transformer which generates mel-spectrum from a sequence of characters, and the duration of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Zhen Zeng , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Tian Xia , Jing Xiao

Sequence-to-sequence automatic speech recognition (ASR) models require large quantities of data to attain high performance. For this reason, there has been a recent surge in interest for unsupervised and semi-supervised training in such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Murali Karthick Baskar , Shinji Watanabe , Ramon Astudillo , Takaaki Hori , Lukáš Burget , Jan Černocký

Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) aims to transcribe speech while assigning transcripts to the corresponding speakers accurately. Existing methods often rely on complex modular systems or require extensive fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Thai-Binh Nguyen , Alexander Waibel

Extending the RNN Transducer (RNNT) to recognize multi-talker speech is essential for wider automatic speech recognition (ASR) applications. Multi-talker RNNT (MT-RNNT) aims to achieve recognition without relying on costly front-end source…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Takafumi Moriya , Shota Horiguchi , Marc Delcroix , Ryo Masumura , Takanori Ashihara , Hiroshi Sato , Kohei Matsuura , Masato Mimura

Most of the previous approaches to lyrics-to-audio alignment used a pre-developed automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that innately suffered from several difficulties to adapt the speech model to individual singers. A significant…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Sungkyun Chang , Kyogu Lee

In real-world applications, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems must handle overlapping speech from multiple speakers and recognize rare words like technical terms. Traditional methods address multi-talker ASR and contextual biasing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Jiajun He , Naoki Sawada , Koichi Miyazaki , Tomoki Toda

Non-autoregressive (NAR) models simultaneously generate multiple outputs in a sequence, which significantly reduces the inference speed at the cost of accuracy drop compared to autoregressive baselines. Showing great potential for real-time…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Yosuke Higuchi , Nanxin Chen , Yuya Fujita , Hirofumi Inaguma , Tatsuya Komatsu , Jaesong Lee , Jumon Nozaki , Tianzi Wang , Shinji Watanabe

We present a novel approach to end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) that utilizes pre-trained masked language models (LMs) to facilitate the extraction of linguistic information. The proposed models, BERT-CTC and BECTRA, are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Yosuke Higuchi , Tetsuji Ogawa , Tetsunori Kobayashi , Shinji Watanabe

This paper presents a new approach to the problem of correcting speech recognition errors by means of post-editing. It consists of using a neural sequence tagger that learns how to correct an ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) hypothesis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Tomasz Ziętkiewicz

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) can achieve promising performance with large-scale training data. However, it is known that domain mismatch between training and testing data often leads to a degradation of recognition…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Wenxin Hou , Jindong Wang , Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Takahiro Shinozaki

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has benefited from advances in pretrained speech and language models, yet most systems remain constrained to monolingual settings and short, isolated utterances. While recent efforts in context-aware ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuchen Zhang , Haralambos Mouratidis , Ravi Shekhar

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) models have become standard practice for various commercial applications. However, in real-world scenarios, the long-tailed nature of word distribution often leads E2E ASR models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yi-Cheng Wang , Li-Ting Pai , Bi-Cheng Yan , Hsin-Wei Wang , Chi-Han Lin , Berlin Chen

Conventional end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems rely on paired speech-text data for domain adaptation. Recent LLM-based ASR architectures connect a speech encoder to a large language model via a projection module,…

In this paper, we investigate the impact of incorporating timestamp-based alignment between Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) transcripts and Speaker Diarization (SD) outputs on Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) accuracy. Misalignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Hsuan-Yu Wang , Pei-Ying Lee , Berlin Chen

Recent advancements in supervised automatic speech recognition (ASR) have achieved remarkable performance, largely due to the growing availability of large transcribed speech corpora. However, most languages lack sufficient paired speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Junrui Ni , Liming Wang , Yang Zhang , Kaizhi Qian , Heting Gao , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Chang D. Yoo

Joint modeling of multi-speaker ASR and speaker diarization has recently shown promising results in speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR).Although being able to obtain state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance, most of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yangze Li , Fan Yu , Yuhao Liang , Pengcheng Guo , Mohan Shi , Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Lei Xie