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In this paper we propose a novel data augmentation method for attention-based end-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E-ASR), utilizing a large amount of text which is not paired with speech signals. Inspired by the back-translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Tomoki Hayashi , Shinji Watanabe , Yu Zhang , Tomoki Toda , Takaaki Hori , Ramon Astudillo , Kazuya Takeda

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems typically rely on an external endpointer (EP) model to identify speech boundaries. In this work, we propose a method to jointly train the ASR and EP tasks in a single end-to-end (E2E) multitask…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Shaan Bijwadia , Shuo-yiin Chang , Bo Li , Tara Sainath , Chao Zhang , Yanzhang He

Noise-robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been commonly addressed by applying speech enhancement (SE) at the waveform level before recognition. However, speech-level enhancement does not always translate into consistent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Da-Hee Yang , Joon-Hyuk Chang

For real-world speech recognition applications, noise robustness is still a challenge. In this work, we adopt the teacher-student (T/S) learning technique using a parallel clean and noisy corpus for improving automatic speech recognition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-19 Ladislav Mošner , Minhua Wu , Anirudh Raju , Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi , Kenichi Kumatani , Shiva Sundaram , Roland Maas , Björn Hoffmeister

Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) is an interdisciplinary application of computer science and linguistics that enable us to derive the transcription from the uttered speech waveform. It finds several applications in Military like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Priyank Dubey , Bilal Shah

Recently, end-to-end (E2E) speech recognition has become popular, since it can integrate the acoustic, pronunciation and language models into a single neural network, which outperforms conventional models. Among E2E approaches,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Zhifu Gao , Yiwu Yao , Shiliang Zhang , Jun Yang , Ming Lei , Ian McLoughlin

With the advent of deep learning, research on noise-robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) has progressed rapidly. However, ASR performance in noisy conditions of single-channel systems remains unsatisfactory. Indeed, most single-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Keisuke Kinoshita , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani

Noise robustness is essential for deploying automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in real-world environments. One way to reduce the effect of noise interference is to employ a preprocessing module that conducts speech enhancement, and…

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 describes noisy speech recognition for an augmented reality headset that helps verbal communication within real multiparty conversational environments. A major approach that has actively been studied in simulated environments is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 Yicheng Du , Aditya Arie Nugraha , Kouhei Sekiguchi , Yoshiaki Bando , Mathieu Fontaine , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

This paper proposes an efficient attempt to noisy speech emotion recognition (NSER). Conventional NSER approaches have proven effective in mitigating the impact of artificial noise sources, such as white Gaussian noise, but are limited to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xiaohan Shi , Jiajun He , Xingfeng Li , Tomoki Toda

Form about four decades human beings have been dreaming of an intelligent machine which can master the natural speech. In its simplest form, this machine should consist of two subsystems, namely automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Urmila Shrawankar , V. M. Thakare

This paper proposes AS-ASR, a lightweight aphasia-specific speech recognition framework based on Whisper-tiny, tailored for low-resource deployment on edge devices. Our approach introduces a hybrid training strategy that systematically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Chen Bao , Chuanbing Huo , Qinyu Chen , Chang Gao

End-to-end approaches for automatic speech recognition (ASR) benefit from directly modeling the probability of the word sequence given the input audio stream in a single neural network. However, compared to conventional ASR systems, these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Ankur Gandhe , Ariya Rastrow

Audiovisual speech recognition (AVSR) is a method to alleviate the adverse effect of noise in the acoustic signal. Leveraging recent developments in deep neural network-based speech recognition, we present an AVSR neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Michael Wand , Ngoc Thang Vu , Juergen Schmidhuber

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

In this work, we propose a training algorithm for an audio-visual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) system using deep recurrent neural network (RNN).First, we train a deep RNN acoustic model with a Connectionist Temporal Classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Abhinav Thanda , Shankar M Venkatesan

Improving the representation of contextual information is key to unlocking the potential of end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this work, we present a novel and simple approach for training an ASR context mechanism with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-30 Uri Alon , Golan Pundak , Tara N. Sainath

Recent advancements in automatic speech recognition (ASR) have achieved notable progress, whereas robustness in noisy environments remains challenging. While speech enhancement (SE) front-ends are widely used to mitigate noise as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Siyi Zhao , Wei Wang , Yanmin Qian

Speech enhancement (SE) is proved effective in reducing noise from noisy speech signals for downstream automatic speech recognition (ASR), where multi-task learning strategy is employed to jointly optimize these two tasks. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Yuchen Hu , Chen Chen , Ruizhe Li , Qiushi Zhu , Eng Siong Chng