English
Related papers

Related papers: Semantic Data Augmentation for End-to-End Mandarin…

200 papers

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

Despite recent progress in automatic speech recognition (ASR), elderly ASR (EASR) remains challenging due to limited training data and the distinct acoustic and linguistic characteristics of elderly speech. In this work, we address data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Minsik Lee , Seoi Hong , Chongmin Lee , Sieun Choi , Jian Kim , Jua Han , Jihie Kim

Recent advancements in integrating speech information into large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved automatic speech recognition (ASR) accuracy. However, existing methods often constrained by the capabilities of the speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Shaojun Li , Hengchao Shang , Daimeng Wei , Jiaxin Guo , Zongyao Li , Xianghui He , Min Zhang , Hao Yang

Code-switching (CS) refers to a linguistic phenomenon where a speaker uses different languages in an utterance or between alternating utterances. In this work, we study end-to-end (E2E) approaches to the Mandarin-English code-switching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Zhiping Zeng , Yerbolat Khassanov , Van Tung Pham , Haihua Xu , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

We propose a novel end-to-end multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) framework that enables both multi-speaker (MS) ASR and target-speaker (TS) ASR. Our proposed model is trained in a fully end-to-end manner, incorporating speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Jinhan Wang , Weiqing Wang , Kunal Dhawan , Taejin Park , Myungjong Kim , Ivan Medennikov , He Huang , Nithin Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

In this work we evaluate the utility of synthetic data for training automatic speech recognition (ASR). We use the ASR training data to train a text-to-speech (TTS) system similar to FastSpeech-2. With this TTS we reproduce the original…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Benedikt Hilmes , Nick Rossenbach , and Ralf Schlüter

Self-supervised representation learning (SSRL) has demonstrated superior performance than supervised models for tasks including phoneme recognition. Training SSRL models poses a challenge for low-resource languages where sufficient…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Asad Ullah , Alessandro Ragano , Andrew Hines

While end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models have shown impressive performance in transcribing general speech, they often struggle to accurately recognize contextually relevant keywords, such as proper nouns or user-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Shilin Zhou , Zhenghua Li

While significant improvements have been made in recent years in terms of end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance, such improvements were obtained through the use of very large neural networks, unfit for embedded use on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Alex Bie , Bharat Venkitesh , Joao Monteiro , Md. Akmal Haidar , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) should serve every speaker, not only the majority ``standard'' speakers of a language. In order to build inclusive ASR, mitigating the bias against speaker groups who speak in a ``non-standard'' or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Yuanyuan Zhang , Aaricia Herygers , Tanvina Patel , Zhengjun Yue , Odette Scharenborg

The speech chain mechanism integrates automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) modules into a single cycle during training. In our previous work, we applied a speech chain mechanism as a semi-supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura

Contextual biasing is an important and challenging task for end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, which aims to achieve better recognition performance by biasing the ASR system to particular context phrases such as person…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Xiaoqiang Wang , Yanqing Liu , Jinyu Li , Veljko Miljanic , Sheng Zhao , Hosam Khalil

In this paper, a multilingual end-to-end framework, called as ATCSpeechNet, is proposed to tackle the issue of translating communication speech into human-readable text in air traffic control (ATC) systems. In the proposed framework, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Yi Lin , Bo Yang , Linchao Li , Dongyue Guo , Jianwei Zhang , Hu Chen , Yi Zhang

The choice of modeling units is crucial for automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks. In mandarin scenarios, the Chinese characters represent meaning but are not directly related to the pronunciation. Thus only considering the writing of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yuting Yang , Binbin Du , Yuke Li

The lack of code-switch training data is one of the major concerns in the development of end-to-end code-switching automatic speech recognition (ASR) models. In this work, we propose a method to train an improved end-to-end code-switching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Yerbolat Khassanov , Haihua Xu , Van Tung Pham , Zhiping Zeng , Eng Siong Chng , Chongjia Ni , Bin Ma

We introduce romanization encoding for script-heavy languages to optimize multilingual and code-switching Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. By adopting romanization encoding alongside a balanced concatenated tokenizer within a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Wen Ding , Fei Jia , Hainan Xu , Yu Xi , Junjie Lai , Boris Ginsburg

This paper investigates a novel approach to end-to-end speech translation (ST) based on aligning frozen pre-trained automatic speech recognition (ASR) and machine translation (MT) models via a small connector module (Q-Former, our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Šimon Sedláček , Santosh Kesiraju , Alexander Polok , Jan Černocký

While automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved remarkable performance with large-scale datasets, their efficacy remains inadequate in low-resource settings, encompassing dialects, accents, minority languages, and long-tail…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Guanrou Yang , Fan Yu , Ziyang Ma , Zhihao Du , Zhifu Gao , Shiliang Zhang , Xie Chen

Neural front-ends are an appealing alternative to traditional, fixed feature extraction pipelines for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems since they can be directly trained to fit the acoustic model. However, their performance often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Peter Vieting , Maximilian Kannen , Benedikt Hilmes , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, including both attention-based models and the recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T), have shown superior performance compared to conventional systems. However, previous studies…