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We present a simple and efficient auxiliary loss function for automatic speech recognition (ASR) based on the connectionist temporal classification (CTC) objective. The proposed objective, an intermediate CTC loss, is attached to an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-08 Jaesong Lee , Shinji Watanabe

Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) is a widely used method for automatic speech recognition (ASR), renowned for its simplicity and computational efficiency. However, it often falls short in recognition performance. In this work, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-17 Zengwei Yao , Wei Kang , Xiaoyu Yang , Fangjun Kuang , Liyong Guo , Han Zhu , Zengrui Jin , Zhaoqing Li , Long Lin , Daniel Povey

This paper proposes an adaptation method for end-to-end speech recognition. In this method, multiple automatic speech recognition (ASR) 1-best hypotheses are integrated in the computation of the connectionist temporal classification (CTC)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Cong-Thanh Do , Rama Doddipatla , Thomas Hain

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

Full-text error correction with Large Language Models (LLMs) for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is attracting increased attention for its ability to address a wide range of error types, such as punctuation restoration and inverse text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhiyuan Tang , Dong Wang , Zhikai Zhou , Yong Liu , Shen Huang , Shidong Shang

End-to-end ASR models trained on large amount of data tend to be implicitly biased towards language semantics of the training data. Internal language model estimation (ILME) has been proposed to mitigate this bias for autoregressive models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Nilaksh Das , Monica Sunkara , Sravan Bodapati , Jinglun Cai , Devang Kulshreshtha , Jeff Farris , Katrin Kirchhoff

Contextual ASR or hotword customization holds substantial practical value. Despite the impressive performance of current end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, they often face challenges in accurately recognizing rare…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Guanrou Yang , Ziyang Ma , Zhifu Gao , Shiliang Zhang , Xie Chen

Recently, large-scale pre-trained speech encoders and Large Language Models (LLMs) have been released, which show state-of-the-art performance on a range of spoken language processing tasks including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Rao Ma , Tongzhou Chen , Kartik Audhkhasi , Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Language models (LMs) have been commonly adopted to boost the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) particularly in domain adaptation tasks. Conventional way of LM training treats all the words in corpora equally, resulting in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yingyi Ma , Zhe Liu , Ozlem Kalinli

Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) based end-to-end speech recognition system usually need to incorporate an external language model by using WFST-based decoding in order to achieve promising results. This is more essential to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-24 Shiliang Zhang , Ming Lei , Zhijie Yan

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems normally consist of an acoustic model (AM) and a language model (LM). The acoustic model estimates the probability distribution of text given the input speech, while the language model calibrates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Qingliang Meng , Pengju Ren , Tian Li , Changsong Dai , Huizhi Liang

In real-world applications, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems must handle overlapping speech from multiple speakers and recognize rare words like technical terms. Traditional methods address multi-talker ASR and contextual biasing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Jiajun He , Naoki Sawada , Koichi Miyazaki , Tomoki Toda

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

Due to the recent advances of natural language processing, several works have applied the pre-trained masked language model (MLM) of BERT to the post-correction of speech recognition. However, existing pre-trained models only consider the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Yi-Chang Chen , Chun-Yen Cheng , Chien-An Chen , Ming-Chieh Sung , Yi-Ren Yeh

Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) provides an end-to-end acoustic model (AM) training strategy. CTC learns accurate AMs without time-aligned phonetic transcription, but sometimes fails to converge, especially in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-28 Di He , Xuesong Yang , Boon Pang Lim , Yi Liang , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Deming Chen

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks are resolved by end-to-end deep learning models, which benefits us by less preparation of raw data, and easier transformation between languages. We propose a novel end-to-end deep learning model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-31 Xinpei Zhou , Jiwei Li , Xi Zhou

This paper proposes a method to relax the conditional independence assumption of connectionist temporal classification (CTC)-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) models. We train a CTC-based ASR model with auxiliary CTC losses in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Jumon Nozaki , Tatsuya Komatsu

For end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models, recognizing personal or rare phrases can be hard. A promising way to improve accuracy is through spelling correction (or rewriting) of the ASR lattice, where potentially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Leonid Velikovich , Christopher Li , Diamantino Caseiro , Shankar Kumar , Pat Rondon , Kandarp Joshi , Xavier Velez

In Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, a recurring obstacle is the generation of narrowly focused output distributions. This phenomenon emerges as a side effect of Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC), a robust sequence…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 SooHwan Eom , Eunseop Yoon , Hee Suk Yoon , Chanwoo Kim , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Chang D. Yoo

Non-autoregressive models greatly improve decoding speed over typical sequence-to-sequence models, but suffer from degraded performance. Infilling and iterative refinement models make up some of this gap by editing the outputs of a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Ethan A. Chi , Julian Salazar , Katrin Kirchhoff