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Robust audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) in noisy environments remains challenging, as existing systems struggle to estimate audio reliability and dynamically adjust modality reliance. We propose router-gated cross-modal feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 DongHoon Lim , YoungChae Kim , Dong-Hyun Kim , Da-Hee Yang , Joon-Hyuk Chang

Speech recognition is the technology that enables machines to interpret and process human speech, converting spoken language into text or commands. This technology is essential for applications such as virtual assistants, transcription…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-09 Xinyu Wang , Haotian Jiang , Haolin Huang , Yu Fang , Mengjie Xu , Qian Wang

Speech enhancement in audio-only settings remains challenging, particularly in the presence of interfering speakers. This paper presents a simple yet effective real-time audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) system, RAVEN, which isolates…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 T. Aleksandra Ma , Sile Yin , Li-Chia Yang , Shuo Zhang

Audio-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) degrades significantly in noisy environments and is particularly vulnerable to interfering speech, as the model cannot determine which speaker to transcribe. Audio-visual speech recognition…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Bowen Shi , Wei-Ning Hsu , Abdelrahman Mohamed

Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) stands at the intersection of computer vision and speech recognition, aiming to interpret spoken content from visual cues. A prominent challenge in VSR is the presence of homophenes-visually similar lip…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Young Jin Ahn , Jungwoo Park , Sangha Park , Jonghyun Choi , Kee-Eung Kim

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) aims to transcribe human speech using both audio and video modalities. In practical environments with noise-corrupted audio, the role of video information becomes crucial. However, prior works have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Sungnyun Kim , Kangwook Jang , Sangmin Bae , Hoirin Kim , Se-Young Yun

Speech is understood better by using visual context; for this reason, there have been many attempts to use images to adapt automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Current work, however, has shown that visually adapted ASR models only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Tejas Srinivasan , Ramon Sanabria , Florian Metze

Human speech processing is inherently multimodal, where visual cues (lip movements) help to better understand the speech in noise. Lip-reading driven speech enhancement significantly outperforms benchmark audio-only approaches at low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Ahsan Adeel , Mandar Gogate , Amir Hussain

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) has gained remarkable success for ameliorating the noise-robustness of speech recognition. Mainstream methods focus on fusing audio and visual inputs to obtain modality-invariant representations.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Qiang Zhang , Heqing Zou , Beier Zhu , Eng Siong Chng

The practical deployment of Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) systems is fundamentally challenged by significant performance degradation in real-world environments, characterized by unpredictable acoustic noise and visual interference.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Sungnyun Kim

Numerous studies have investigated the effectiveness of audio-visual multimodal learning for speech enhancement (AVSE) tasks, seeking a solution that uses visual data as auxiliary and complementary input to reduce the noise of noisy speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Shang-Yi Chuang , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) combines auditory and visual speech cues to enhance the accuracy and robustness of speech recognition systems. Recent advancements in AVSR have improved performance in noisy environments compared to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Zhaofeng Lin , Naomi Harte

Lip Reading, or Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (V-ASR), is a complex task requiring the interpretation of spoken language exclusively from visual cues, primarily lip movements and facial expressions. This task is especially challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Marshall Thomas , Edward Fish , Richard Bowden

Audio-visual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) introduces the video modality into the speech recognition process, often by relying on information conveyed by the motion of the speaker's mouth. The use of the video signal requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Dmitriy Serdyuk , Otavio Braga , Olivier Siohan

Audio-visual feature synchronization for real-time speech enhancement in hearing aids represents a progressive approach to improving speech intelligibility and user experience, particularly in strong noisy backgrounds. This approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Nasir Saleem , Mandar Gogate , Kia Dashtipour , Adeel Hussain , Usman Anwar , Adewale Adetomi , Tughrul Arslan , Amir Hussain

This paper presents a new approach for end-to-end audio-visual multi-talker speech recognition. The approach, referred to here as the visual context attention model (VCAM), is important because it uses the available video information to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Richard Rose , Olivier Siohan

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) offers a robust solution for speech recognition in challenging environments, such as cocktail-party scenarios, where relying solely on audio proves insufficient. However, current AVSR models are often…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Thai-Binh Nguyen , Ngoc-Quan Pham , Alexander Waibel

In audiovisual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) systems, information fusion of visual features in a pre-trained ASR has been proven as a promising method to improve noise robustness. In this work, based on the prominent Whisper ASR,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Zhengyang Li , Thomas Graave , Björn Möller , Zehang Wu , Matthias Franz , Tim Fingscheidt

Audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) has been found to be particularly useful at low signal-to-noise (SNR) ratios due to the immunity of the visual features to acoustic noise. However, a significant gap exists in AVSE methods tailored to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Danielle Yaffe , Ferdinand Campe , Prachi Sharma , Dorothea Kolossa , Boaz Rafaely

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) has gained significant attention recently due to its robustness against noise, which often challenges conventional speech recognition systems that rely solely on audio features. Despite this advantage,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Thai-Binh Nguyen , Thi Van Nguyen , Quoc Truong Do , Chi Mai Luong