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This work is an attempt to introduce a comprehensive benchmark for Arabic speech recognition, specifically tailored to address the challenges of telephone conversations in Arabic language. Arabic, characterized by its rich dialectal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Qusai Abo Obaidah , Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Adnan Jaljuli , Ali Mahboub , Asma Hakouz , Bashar Al-Rfooh , Yazan Estaitia

In this research, we advanced a spoken language recognition system, moving beyond traditional feature vector-based models. Our improvements focused on effectively capturing language characteristics over extended periods using a specialized…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Or Haim Anidjar , Roi Yozevitch

The present study tackles the problem of automatically discovering spoken keywords from untranscribed audio archives without requiring word-by-word speech transcription by automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology. The problem is of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Man-Ling Sung , Siyuan Feng , Tan Lee

Recent advances in speech-aware language models have coupled strong acoustic encoders with large language models, enabling systems that move beyond transcription to produce richer outputs. Among these, word-level timestamp prediction is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Xulin Fan , Vishal Sunder , Samuel Thomas , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Brian Kingsbury , George Saon

Improving the accuracy of single-channel automatic speech recognition (ASR) in noisy conditions is challenging. Strong speech enhancement front-ends are available, however, they typically require that the ASR model is retrained to cope with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla

Multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been studied to generate transcriptions of natural conversation including overlapping speech of multiple speakers. Due to the difficulty in acquiring real conversation data with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Muqiao Yang , Naoyuki Kanda , Xiaofei Wang , Jian Wu , Sunit Sivasankaran , Zhuo Chen , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka

OpenAI's Whisper Automated Speech Recognition model excels in generalizing across diverse datasets and domains. However, this broad adaptability can lead to diminished performance in tasks requiring recognition of specific vocabularies.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Vishakha Lall , Yisi Liu

We introduce the Universal Speech Model (USM), a single large model that performs automatic speech recognition (ASR) across 100+ languages. This is achieved by pre-training the encoder of the model on a large unlabeled multilingual dataset…

Speech impairments caused by conditions such as cerebral palsy or genetic disorders pose significant challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Despite recent advances, ASR models like Whisper struggle with non-normative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Niclas Pokel , Pehuén Moure , Roman Boehringer , Yingqiang Gao

The neural language models (NLM) achieve strong generalization capability by learning the dense representation of words and using them to estimate probability distribution function. However, learning the representation of rare words is a…

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

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) allows a natural and intuitive interface for robotic educational applications for children. However there are a number of challenges to overcome to allow such an interface to operate robustly in realistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Samuel Fernando , Roger K. Moore , David Cameron , Emily C. Collins , Abigail Millings , Amanda J. Sharkey , Tony J. Prescott

Evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a classical but difficult and still open problem, which often boils down to focusing only on the word error rate (WER). However, this metric suffers from many limitations and does not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Thibault Bañeras-Roux , Mickaël Rouvier , Jane Wottawa , Richard Dufour

Visual context has been shown to be useful for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems when the speech signal is noisy or corrupted. Previous work, however, has only demonstrated the utility of visual context in an unrealistic setting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Tejas Srinivasan , Ramon Sanabria , Florian Metze , Desmond Elliott

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (MS-ASR) faces significant challenges in transcribing overlapped speech, a task critical for applications like meeting transcription and conversational analysis. While serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Yuke Lin , Ming Cheng , Ze Li , Beilong Tang , Ming Li

Speech impairments resulting from congenital disorders, such as cerebral palsy, down syndrome, or apert syndrome, as well as acquired brain injuries due to stroke, traumatic accidents, or tumors, present major challenges to automatic speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Niclas Pokel , Pehuén Moure , Roman Boehringer , Shih-Chii Liu , Yingqiang Gao

Deep neural networks have largely demonstrated their ability to perform automated speech recognition (ASR) by extracting meaningful features from input audio frames. Such features, however, may consist not only of information about the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 David M. Chan , Shalini Ghosh

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) outcomes serve as input for downstream tasks, substantially impacting the satisfaction level of end-users. Hence, the diagnosis and enhancement of the vulnerabilities present in the ASR model bear…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Seonmin Koo , Chanjun Park , Jinsung Kim , Jaehyung Seo , Sugyeong Eo , Hyeonseok Moon , Heuiseok Lim

Humans have the ability to utilize visual cues, such as lip movements and visual scenes, to enhance auditory perception, particularly in noisy environments. However, current Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or Audio-Visual Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lakshmipathi Balaji , Karan Singla

Hypernasality is an abnormal resonance in human speech production, especially in patients with craniofacial anomalies such as cleft palate. In clinical application, hypernasality estimation is crucial in cleft palate diagnosis, as its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Kaitao Song , Teng Wan , Bixia Wang , Huiqiang Jiang , Luna Qiu , Jiahang Xu , Liping Jiang , Qun Lou , Yuqing Yang , Dongsheng Li , Xudong Wang , Lili Qiu

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems can suffer from poor recall for various reasons, such as noisy audio, lack of sufficient training data, etc. Previous work has shown that recall can be improved by retrieving rewrite candidates…