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Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) in multi-party meeting scenarios is one of the most valuable and challenging ASR task. It was shown that single-channel frame-level diarization with serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Mohan Shi , Jie Zhang , Zhihao Du , Fan Yu , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Li-Rong Dai

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

The training of automatic speech recognition (ASR) with little to no supervised data remains an open question. In this work, we demonstrate that streaming Transformer-Transducer (TT) models can be trained from scratch in consumer and…

Serialized Output Training (SOT) has showcased state-of-the-art performance in multi-talker speech recognition by sequentially decoding the speech of individual speakers. To address the challenging label-permutation issue, prior methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ying Shi , Lantian Li , Shi Yin , Dong Wang , Jiqing Han

Streaming end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are widely used on smart speakers and on-device applications. Since these models are expected to transcribe speech with minimal latency, they are constrained to be causal with…

This paper proposes a novel automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that can transcribe individual speaker's speech while identifying whether they are target or non-target speakers from multi-talker overlapped speech. Target-speaker ASR…

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

Multi-talker speech recognition (MT-ASR) has been shown to improve ASR performance on speech containing overlapping utterances from more than one speaker. Multi-talker models have typically been trained from scratch using simulated or…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Richard Rose , Oscar Chang , Olivier Siohan

End-to-end multi-talker speech recognition has garnered great interest as an effective approach to directly transcribe overlapped speech from multiple speakers. Current methods typically adopt either 1) single-input multiple-output (SIMO)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiawen Kang , Lingwei Meng , Mingyu Cui , Haohan Guo , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

End-to-end multi-talker speech recognition is an emerging research trend in the speech community due to its vast potential in applications such as conversation and meeting transcriptions. To the best of our knowledge, all existing research…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Liang Lu , Naoyuki Kanda , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

The Streaming Unmixing and Recognition Transducer (SURT) has recently become a popular framework for continuous, streaming, multi-talker speech recognition (ASR). With advances in architecture, objectives, and mixture simulation methods, it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Desh Raj , Matthew Wiesner , Matthew Maciejewski , Leibny Paola Garcia-Perera , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Previously, a machine speech chain, which is based on sequence-to-sequence deep learning, was proposed to mimic speech perception and production behavior. Such chains separately processed listening and speaking by automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Johanes Effendi , Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura

We propose an end-to-end speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition model that unifies speaker counting, speech recognition, and speaker identification on monaural overlapped speech. Our model is built on serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Naoyuki Kanda , Yashesh Gaur , Xiaofei Wang , Zhong Meng , Zhuo Chen , Tianyan Zhou , Takuya Yoshioka

Prompts are crucial for task definition and for improving the performance of large language models (LLM)-based systems. However, existing LLM-based multi-talker (MT) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems either omit prompts or rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Hao Shi , Yusuke Fujita , Tomoya Mizumoto , Lianbo Liu , Atsushi Kojima , Yui Sudo

Transcribing meetings containing overlapped speech with only a single distant microphone (SDM) has been one of the most challenging problems for automatic speech recognition (ASR). While various approaches have been proposed, all previous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Naoyuki Kanda , Guoli Ye , Yu Wu , Yashesh Gaur , Xiaofei Wang , Zhong Meng , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka

In previous work, we developed a closed-loop speech chain model based on deep learning, in which the architecture enabled the automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) components to mutually improve their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura

Streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) aims to emit each hypothesized word as quickly and accurately as possible, while full-context ASR waits for the completion of a full speech utterance before emitting completed hypotheses. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Jiahui Yu , Wei Han , Anmol Gulati , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Bo Li , Tara N. Sainath , Yonghui Wu , Ruoming Pang

This paper presents a novel framework for multi-talker automatic speech recognition without the need for auxiliary information. Serialized Output Training (SOT), a widely used approach, suffers from recognition errors due to speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Asahi Sakuma , Hiroaki Sato , Ryuga Sugano , Tadashi Kumano , Yoshihiko Kawai , Tetsuji Ogawa

We propose a speaker-attributed (SA) Whisper-based model for multi-talker speech recognition that combines target-speaker modeling with serialized output training (SOT). Our approach leverages a Diarization-Conditioned Whisper (DiCoW)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Martin Kocour , Martin Karafiat , Alexander Polok , Dominik Klement , Lukáš Burget , Jan Černocký

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