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With the development of deep learning, automatic speech recognition (ASR) has made significant progress. To further enhance the performance of ASR, revising recognition results is one of the lightweight but efficient manners. Various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Yi-Wei Wang , Ke-Han Lu , Kuan-Yu Chen

Although modern automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems can achieve high performance, they may produce errors that weaken readers' experience and do harm to downstream tasks. To improve the accuracy and reliability of ASR hypotheses, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Jing Du , Shiliang Pu , Qinbo Dong , Chao Jin , Xin Qi , Dian Gu , Ru Wu , Hongwei Zhou

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an imperfect process that results in certain mismatches in ASR output text when compared to plain written text or transcriptions. When plain text data is to be used to train systems for spoken language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Prashant Serai , Vishal Sunder , Eric Fosler-Lussier

Conversational automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a task to recognize conversational speech including multiple speakers. Unlike sentence-level ASR, conversational ASR can naturally take advantages from specific characteristics of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Kun Wei , Yike Zhang , Sining Sun , Lei Xie , Long Ma

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) aims to convert human speech content into corresponding text. In conversational scenarios, effectively utilizing context can enhance its accuracy. Large Language Models' (LLMs) exceptional long-context…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Bingshen Mu , Hexin Liu , Hongfei Xue , Kun Wei , Lei Xie

The word error rate (WER) of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system increases when a mismatch occurs between the training and the testing conditions due to the noise, etc. In this case, the acoustic information can be less reliable.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Dominique Fohr , Irina Illina

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

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is widely used in consumer electronics. ASR greatly improves the utility and accessibility of technology, but usually the output is only word sequences without punctuation. This can result in ambiguity in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Andrew Silva , Barry-John Theobald , Nicholas Apostoloff

Interactions based on automatic speech recognition (ASR) have become widely used, with speech input being increasingly utilized to create documents. However, as there is no easy way to distinguish between commands being issued and text…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Jun Rekimoto

We present improvements in automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Somali, a currently extremely under-resourced language. This forms part of a continuing United Nations (UN) effort to employ ASR-based keyword spotting systems to support…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Astik Biswas , Raghav Menon , Ewald van der Westhuizen , Thomas Niesler

Recent years have witnessed significant improvement in ASR systems to recognize spoken utterances. However, it is still a challenging task for noisy and out-of-domain data, where substitution and deletion errors are prevalent in the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Mukuntha Narayanan Sundararaman , Ayush Kumar , Jithendra Vepa

This paper presents an end-to-end deep learning model for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) that transcribes Nepali speech to text. The model was trained and tested on the OpenSLR (audio, text) dataset. The majority of the audio dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Manish Dhakal , Arman Chhetri , Aman Kumar Gupta , Prabin Lamichhane , Suraj Pandey , Subarna Shakya

Automating benefit verification phone calls saves time in healthcare and helps patients receive treatment faster. It is critical to obtain highly accurate information in these phone calls, as it can affect a patient's healthcare journey.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ayesha Qamar , Arushi Raghuvanshi , Conal Sathi , Youngseo Son

This paper addresses the problem of automatic speech recognition (ASR) of a target speaker in background speech. The novelty of our approach is that we focus on a wakeup keyword, which is usually used for activating ASR systems like smart…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-08 Yusuke Kida , Dung Tran , Motoi Omachi , Toru Taniguchi , Yuya Fujita

Noisy Student Training (NST) has recently demonstrated extremely strong performance in Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR). In this paper, we propose a data selection strategy named LM Filter to improve the performance of NST on non-target…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Yu Chen , Wen Ding , Junjie Lai

While the use of deep neural networks has significantly boosted speaker recognition performance, it is still challenging to separate speakers in poor acoustic environments. To improve robustness of speaker recognition system performance in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Modern Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems primarily rely on scores from an Acoustic Model (AM) and a Language Model (LM) to rescore the N-best lists. With the abundance of recent natural language processing advances, the information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Yuanfeng Song , Di Jiang , Xuefang Zhao , Qian Xu , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a crucial tool for linguists aiming to perform a variety of language documentation tasks. However, modern ASR systems use data-hungry transformer architectures, rendering them generally unusable for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Massimo Daul , Alessio Tosolini , Claire Bowern

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) research has achieved impressive performance in recent years and has significant potential for enabling access for people with dysarthria (PwD) in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and home…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Wing-Zin Leung , Mattias Cross , Anton Ragni , Stefan Goetze

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) models rely on high-quality transcribed data for effective training. Generating pseudo-labels for large unlabeled audio datasets often relies on complex pipelines that combine multiple ASR outputs through…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Jeena Prakash , Blessingh Kumar , Kadri Hacioglu , Bidisha Sharma , Sindhuja Gopalan , Malolan Chetlur , Shankar Venkatesan , Andreas Stolcke