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End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) can operate in two modes: streaming and non-streaming, each with its pros and cons. Streaming ASR processes the speech frames in real-time as it is being received, while non-streaming ASR…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Muhammad Shakeel , Yui Sudo , Yifan Peng , Shinji Watanabe

The rising interest in single-channel multi-speaker speech separation sparked development of End-to-End (E2E) approaches to multi-speaker speech recognition. However, up until now, state-of-the-art neural network-based time domain source…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Thilo von Neumann , Keisuke Kinoshita , Lukas Drude , Christoph Boeddeker , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Modular end-to-end (ME2E) autonomous driving paradigms combine modular interpretability with global optimization capability and have demonstrated strong performance. However, existing studies mainly focus on accuracy improvement, while…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chengzhi Ji , Xingfeng Li , Zhaodong Lv , Hao Sun , Pan Liu , Hao Frank Yang , Ziyuan Pu

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has reached a level of accuracy in recent years, that even outperforms humans in transcribing speech to text. Nevertheless, all current ASR approaches show a certain weakness against ambient noise. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Christopher Simic , Tobias Bocklet

In automatic speech recognition (ASR) what a user says depends on the particular context she is in. Typically, this context is represented as a set of word n-grams. In this work, we present a novel, all-neural, end-to-end (E2E) ASR sys- tem…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-09 Golan Pundak , Tara N. Sainath , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Anjuli Kannan , Ding Zhao

Acoustic-to-word (A2W) models that allow direct mapping from acoustic signals to word sequences are an appealing approach to end-to-end automatic speech recognition due to their simplicity. However, prior works have shown that modelling A2W…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-17 Thai-Son Nguyen , Sebastian Stueker , Alex Waibel

Joint training of speech enhancement model (SE) and speech recognition model (ASR) is a common solution for robust ASR in noisy environments. SE focuses on improving the auditory quality of speech, but the enhanced feature distribution is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Tianrui Wang , Weibin Zhu , Yingying Gao , Junlan Feng , Shilei Zhang

The requirements for many applications of state-of-the-art speech recognition systems include not only low word error rate (WER) but also low latency. Specifically, for many use-cases, the system must be able to decode utterances in a…

Serving as an essential prerequisite for modern power system operation, robust state estimation (RSE) could effectively resist noises and outliers in measurements. The emerging neural network (NN) based end-to-end (E2E) learning framework…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Yibo Ding , Wenzhuo Shi , Mengzhao Duan , Yuhong Zhao , Jiaqi Ruan , Jian Zhao , Zhao Xu

There has been an increased interest in the integration of pretrained speech recognition (ASR) and language models (LM) into the SLU framework. However, prior methods often struggle with a vocabulary mismatch between pretrained models, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Siddhant Arora , Hayato Futami , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Emiru Tsunoo , Brian Yan , Shinji Watanabe

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a pivotal role in understanding human communication, enabling emotionally intelligent systems, and serving as a fundamental component in the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Yuanchao Li

Recently, online end-to-end ASR has gained increasing attention. However, the performance of online systems still lags far behind that of offline systems, with a large gap in quality of recognition. For specific scenarios, we can trade-off…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Zhifu Gao , Shiliang Zhang , Ming Lei , Ian McLoughlin

End-to-end (E2E) approaches to keyword search (KWS) are considerably simpler in terms of training and indexing complexity when compared to approaches which use the output of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. This simplification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Bolaji Yusuf , Murat Saraçlar

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

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

Recently, self-supervised pretraining has achieved impressive results in end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, the dominant sequence-to-sequence (S2S) E2E model is still hard to fully utilize the self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Keqi Deng , Songjun Cao , Yike Zhang , Long Ma

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, largely driven by the emergence of LLM-based ASR paradigm. Despite their strong performance on a variety of open-source benchmarks, existing LLM-based ASR…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zheshu Song , Lu Wang , Wei Deng , Zhuo Yang , Yong Wu , Bin Xia

End-to-end models are gaining wider attention in the field of automatic speech recognition (ASR). One of their advantages is the simplicity of building that directly recognizes the speech frame sequence into the text label sequence by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Linhao Dong , Cheng Yi , Jianzong Wang , Shiyu Zhou , Shuang Xu , Xueli Jia , Bo Xu

In recent years, end-to-end (E2E) based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved great success due to their simplicity and promising performance. Neural Transducer based models are increasingly popular in streaming E2E based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Xie Chen , Zhong Meng , Sarangarajan Parthasarathy , Jinyu Li

The main motivation for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is efficient interfaces to computers, and for the interfaces to be natural and truly useful, it should provide coverage for a large group of users. The purpose of these tasks is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Urmila Shrawankar , VM Thakare