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This paper investigates the in-context learning abilities of the Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) models released by OpenAI. A novel speech-based in-context learning (SICL) approach is proposed for test-time adaptation, which can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Siyin Wang , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Ji Wu , Chao Zhang

Despite extensions to speech inputs, effectively leveraging the rich knowledge and contextual understanding of large language models (LLMs) in automatic speech recognition (ASR) remains non-trivial, as the task primarily involves direct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Keqi Deng , Ruchao Fan , Bo Ren , Yiming Wang , Jinyu Li

Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) models are popular for their balance between speed and performance for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). However, these CTC models still struggle in other areas, such as personalization towards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Devang Kulshreshtha , Saket Dingliwal , Brady Houston , Sravan Bodapati

End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has advanced significantly yet still struggles with rare and domain-specific entities. This paper introduces a simple yet efficient prompt-based biasing technique for contextualized ASR,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Bo Ren , Yu Shi , Jinyu Li

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have demonstrated remarkable performance across various applications. However, limited data and the unique language features of specific domains, such as low-resource languages, significantly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Amin Robatian , Mohammad Hajipour , Mohammad Reza Peyghan , Fatemeh Rajabi , Sajjad Amini , Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami , Iman Gholampour

Pretrained automatic speech recognition (ASR) models such as Whisper perform well but still need domain adaptation to handle unseen parlance. In many real-world settings, collecting speech data is impractical, necessitating text-only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Akshat Pandey , Karun Kumar , Raphael Tang

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) methods exhibit remarkable performance. However, since the performance of such methods is intrinsically linked to the context present in the training data, E2E-ASR methods do not perform…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Yui Sudo , Muhammad Shakeel , Yosuke Fukumoto , Yifan Peng , Shinji Watanabe

It's challenging to customize transducer-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) system with context information which is dynamic and unavailable during model training. In this work, we introduce a light-weight contextual spelling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Xiaoqiang Wang , Yanqing Liu , Sheng Zhao , Jinyu Li

Code-Switching (CS) remains a challenge for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), especially character-based models. With the combined choice of characters from multiple languages, the outcome from character-based models suffers from phoneme…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Burin Naowarat , Thananchai Kongthaworn , Korrawe Karunratanakul , Sheng Hui Wu , Ekapol Chuangsuwanich

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, such as Whisper, achieve high transcription accuracy but struggle with named entities and numerical data, especially when proper formatting is required. These issues increase word error rate (WER)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Duygu Altinok

The predominant metric for evaluating speech recognizers, the Word Error Rate (WER) has been extended in different ways to handle transcripts produced by long-form multi-talker speech recognizers. These systems process long transcripts…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Thilo von Neumann , Christoph Boeddeker , Marc Delcroix , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Text encodings from automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts and audio representations have shown promise in speech emotion recognition (SER) ever since. Yet, it is challenging to explain the effect of each information stream on the…

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

Non-autoregressive end-to-end ASR framework might be potentially appropriate for code-switching recognition task thanks to its inherent property that present output token being independent of historical ones. However, it still…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Yizhou Peng , Jicheng Zhang , Haihua Xu , Hao Huang , Eng Siong Chng

Contextual biasing refers to the problem of biasing the automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems towards rare entities that are relevant to the specific user or application scenarios. We propose algorithms for contextual biasing based on…

Although contextualized automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are commonly used to improve the recognition of uncommon words, their effectiveness is hindered by the inherent limitations of speech-text data availability. To address this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Naijun Zheng , Xucheng Wan , Kai Liu , Ziqing Du , Zhou Huan

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved remarkable performance in common conditions but often struggle to leverage long-context information in contextualized scenarios that require domain-specific knowledge, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yiming Rong , Yixin Zhang , Ziyi Wang , Deyang Jiang , Yunlong Zhao , Haoran Wu , Shiyu Zhou , Bo Xu

Error correction in automatic speech recognition (ASR) aims to correct those incorrect words in sentences generated by ASR models. Since recent ASR models usually have low word error rate (WER), to avoid affecting originally correct tokens,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Yichong Leng , Xu Tan , Wenjie Liu , Kaitao Song , Rui Wang , Xiang-Yang Li , Tao Qin , Edward Lin , Tie-Yan Liu

Due to the mismatch between the source and target domains, how to better utilize the biased word information to improve the performance of the automatic speech recognition model in the target domain becomes a hot research topic. Previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Yaoxun Xu , Baiji Liu , Qiaochu Huang and , Xingchen Song , Zhiyong Wu , Shiyin Kang , Helen Meng

Employing pre-trained language models (LM) to extract contextualized word representations has achieved state-of-the-art performance on various NLP tasks. However, applying this technique to noisy transcripts generated by automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Chao-Wei Huang , Yun-Nung Chen