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Bengali, spoken by over 300 million people, is a morphologically rich and lowresource language, posing challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR). This research presents an end-to-end framework for Bengali ASR, building on a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Md. Nazmus Sakib , Golam Mahmud , Md. Maruf Bangabashi , Umme Ara Mahinur Istia , Md. Jahidul Islam , Partha Sarker , Afra Yeamini Prity

Scores from traditional confidence classifiers (CCs) in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems lack universal interpretation and vary with updates to the underlying confidence or acoustic models (AMs). In this work, we build…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Amber Afshan , Kshitiz Kumar , Jian Wu

End-to-end modeling (E2E) of automatic speech recognition (ASR) blends all the components of a traditional speech recognition system into a unified model. Although it simplifies training and decoding pipelines, the unified model is hard to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Zhehuai Chen , Mahaveer Jain , Yongqiang Wang , Michael L. Seltzer , Christian Fuegen

Attention-based methods and Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) network have been promising research directions for end-to-end (E2E) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). The joint CTC/Attention model has achieved great success by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Ruizhi Li , Xiaofei Wang , Sri Harish Mallidi , Shinji Watanabe , Takaaki Hori , Hynek Hermansky

Named Entity Recognition (NER) for Myanmar Language is essential to Myanmar natural language processing research work. In this work, NER for Myanmar language is treated as a sequence tagging problem and the effectiveness of deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Hsu Myat Mo , Khin Mar Soe

This paper presents a method to train end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models using unpaired data. Although the end-to-end approach can eliminate the need for expert knowledge such as pronunciation dictionaries to build ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Takaaki Hori , Ramon Astudillo , Tomoki Hayashi , Yu Zhang , Shinji Watanabe , Jonathan Le Roux

Training automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems requires large amounts of data in the target language in order to achieve good performance. Whereas large training corpora are readily available for languages like English, there exists a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-15 Markus Müller , Sebastian Stüker , Alex Waibel

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

In recent years, end-to-end speech recognition has emerged as a technology that integrates the acoustic, pronunciation dictionary, and language model components of the traditional Automatic Speech Recognition model. It is possible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Tzu-Ting Yang , Hsin-Wei Wang , Berlin Chen

Recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) demonstrated how end-to-end systems are able to achieve state-of-the-art performance. There is a trend towards deeper neural networks, however those ASR models are also more complex and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Ludwig Kürzinger , Edgar Ricardo Chavez Rosas , Lujun Li , Tobias Watzel , Gerhard Rigoll

This paper proposes a method to relax the conditional independence assumption of connectionist temporal classification (CTC)-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) models. We train a CTC-based ASR model with auxiliary CTC losses in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Jumon Nozaki , Tatsuya Komatsu

Recently, end-to-end automatic speech recognition models based on connectionist temporal classification (CTC) have achieved impressive results, especially when fine-tuned from wav2vec2.0 models. Due to the conditional independence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Keqi Deng , Songjun Cao , Yike Zhang , Long Ma , Gaofeng Cheng , Ji Xu , Pengyuan Zhang

In this paper we introduce various techniques to improve the performance of electroencephalography (EEG) features based continuous speech recognition (CSR) systems. A connectionist temporal classification (CTC) based automatic speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-25 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Yan Han , Ahmed H Tewfik

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

Humans are capable of processing speech by making use of multiple sensory modalities. For example, the environment where a conversation takes place generally provides semantic and/or acoustic context that helps us to resolve ambiguities or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Ozan Caglayan , Ramon Sanabria , Shruti Palaskar , Loïc Barrault , Florian Metze

This paper addresses end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) for long audio recordings such as lecture and conversational speeches. Most end-to-end ASR models are designed to recognize independent utterances, but contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Takaaki Hori , Niko Moritz , Chiori Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

Speech recognition in mixed language has difficulties to adapt end-to-end framework due to the lack of data and overlapping phone sets, for example in words such as "one" in English and "w\`an" in Chinese. We propose a CTC-based end-to-end…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Genta Indra Winata , Andrea Madotto , Chien-Sheng Wu , Pascale Fung

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

While deep learning based end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have greatly simplified modeling pipelines, they suffer from the data sparsity issue. In this work, we propose a self-training method with an end-to-end system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-31 Yang Chen , Weiran Wang , Chao Wang

Many end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems still rely on pre-processed frequency-domain features that are handcrafted to emulate the human hearing. Our work is motivated by recent advances in integrated learnable feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-19 Ludwig Kürzinger , Nicolas Lindae , Palle Klewitz , Gerhard Rigoll