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This paper describes an English audio and textual dataset of debating speeches, a unique resource for the growing research field of computational argumentation and debating technologies. We detail the process of speech recording by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Shachar Mirkin , Michal Jacovi , Tamar Lavee , Hong-Kwang Kuo , Samuel Thomas , Leslie Sager , Lili Kotlerman , Elad Venezian , Noam Slonim

Multi-Modal automatic speech recognition (ASR) techniques aim to leverage additional modalities to improve the performance of speech recognition systems. While existing approaches primarily focus on video or contextual information, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Haoxu Wang , Fan Yu , Xian Shi , Yuezhang Wang , Shiliang Zhang , Ming Li

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) performs well for high-resource languages with abundant paired audio-transcript data, but its accuracy degrades sharply for most languages due to limited publicly available aligned data. To this end, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Antonis Asonitis , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Frédéric Berdoz , Roger Wattenhofer

In recent years, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have significantly improved, especially in languages with a vast amount of transcribed speech data. However, ASR systems tend to perform poorly for low-resource languages with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ara Yeroyan , Nikolay Karpov

This paper introduces GigaSpeech, an evolving, multi-domain English speech recognition corpus with 10,000 hours of high quality labeled audio suitable for supervised training, and 40,000 hours of total audio suitable for semi-supervised and…

Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) is a task to recognize "who spoke what" from multi-talker recordings. An SA-ASR system usually consists of multiple modules such as speech separation, speaker diarization and ASR. On…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Naoyuki Kanda , Xiong Xiao , Jian Wu , Tianyan Zhou , Yashesh Gaur , Xiaofei Wang , Zhong Meng , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka

The rapid advancements in speech technologies over the past two decades have led to human-level performance in tasks like automatic speech recognition (ASR) for fluent speech. However, the efficacy of these models diminishes when applied to…

High quality Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a prerequisite for speech-based applications and research. While state-of-the-art ASR software is freely available, the language dependent acoustic models are lacking for languages other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Benjamin Milde , Arne Köhn

This paper describes AssemblyAI's industrial-scale automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, designed to meet the requirements of large-scale, multilingual ASR serving various application needs. Our system leverages a diverse training…

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

Speech datasets available in the public domain are often underutilized because of challenges in discoverability and interoperability. A comprehensive framework has been designed to survey, catalog, and curate available speech datasets,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-02 Michał Junczyk

The Donate Speech campaign has so far succeeded in gathering approximately 3600 hours of ordinary, colloquial Finnish speech into the Lahjoita puhetta (Donate Speech) corpus. The corpus includes over twenty thousand speakers from all the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Anssi Moisio , Dejan Porjazovski , Aku Rouhe , Yaroslav Getman , Anja Virkkunen , Tamás Grósz , Krister Lindén , Mikko Kurimo

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has the potential to substantially reduce manual annotation effort in child speech research by generating automatic transcriptions. However, obtaining reliably high-quality ASR transcriptions for child…

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This paper analyses the implementation of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) into the transcription workflow of the KIParla corpus, a resource of spoken Italian. Through a two-phase experiment, 11 expert and novice transcribers produced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Martina Simonotti , Ludovica Pannitto , Eleonora Zucchini , Silvia Ballarè , Caterina Mauri

Modern speech recognition systems exhibits rapid performance degradation under domain shift. This issue is especially prevalent in data-scarce settings, such as low-resource languages, where diversity of training data is limited. In this…

Ainu is an unwritten language that has been spoken by Ainu people who are one of the ethnic groups in Japan. It is recognized as critically endangered by UNESCO and archiving and documentation of its language heritage is of paramount…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Kohei Matsuura , Sei Ueno , Masato Mimura , Shinsuke Sakai , Tatsuya Kawahara

Recently, multilingual artificial intelligence assistants, exemplified by ChatGPT, have gained immense popularity. As a crucial gateway to human-computer interaction, multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) has also garnered…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Song Li , Yongbin You , Xuezhi Wang , Zhengkun Tian , Ke Ding , Guanglu Wan

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

The development of speech technologies for languages with limited digital representation poses significant challenges, primarily due to the scarcity of available data. This issue is exacerbated in the era of large, data-intensive models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Georgios Paraskevopoulos , Chara Tsoukala , Athanasios Katsamanis , Vassilis Katsouros

This article concerns comparative studies on the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model incorporated with the Large Language Model (LLM) used for medical interviews. The proposed solution is tested on polish language benchmarks and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Marcin Pietroń , Szymon Piórkowski , Kamil Faber , Dominik Żurek , Michał Karwatowski , Jerzy Duda , Hubert Zieliński , Piotr Lipnicki , Mikołaj Leszczuk