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The transcription quality of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems degrades significantly when transcribing audios coming from unseen domains. We propose an unsupervised error correction method for unsupervised ASR domain adaption,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Long Mai , Julie Carson-Berndsen

End-to-end models have gradually become the preferred option for automatic speech recognition (ASR) applications. During the training of end-to-end ASR, data augmentation is a quite effective technique for regularizing the neural networks.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Jianwei Sun , Zhiyuan Tang , Hengxin Yin , Wei Wang , Xi Zhao , Shuaijiang Zhao , Xiaoning Lei , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

We present a Conformer-based end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) model that uses both acoustic input and features derived from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. Two categories of features are explored: features derived directly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Aparna Khare , Eunjung Han , Yuguang Yang , Andreas Stolcke

Recently Convolution-augmented Transformer (Conformer) has shown promising results in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), outperforming the previous best published Transformer Transducer. In this work, we believe that the output information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Xiaoming Ren , Huifeng Zhu , Liuwei Wei , Minghui Wu , Jie Hao

We study training a single acoustic model for multiple languages with the aim of improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance on low-resource languages, and over-all simplifying deployment of ASR systems that support diverse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Vineel Pratap , Anuroop Sriram , Paden Tomasello , Awni Hannun , Vitaliy Liptchinsky , Gabriel Synnaeve , Ronan Collobert

End-to-end modeling (E2E) of automatic speech recognition (ASR) blends all the components of a traditional speech recognition system into a unified model. Although it simplifies training and decoding pipelines, the unified model is hard to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Zhehuai Chen , Mahaveer Jain , Yongqiang Wang , Michael L. Seltzer , Christian Fuegen

Multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been studied to generate transcriptions of natural conversation including overlapping speech of multiple speakers. Due to the difficulty in acquiring real conversation data with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Muqiao Yang , Naoyuki Kanda , Xiaofei Wang , Jian Wu , Sunit Sivasankaran , Zhuo Chen , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka

Context cues carry information which can improve multi-turn interactions in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. In this paper, we introduce a novel mechanism inspired by hyper-prompting to fuse textual context with acoustic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Sergio Duarte-Torres , Arunasish Sen , Aman Rana , Lukas Drude , Alejandro Gomez-Alanis , Andreas Schwarz , Leif Rädel , Volker Leutnant

Multilingual end-to-end automatic speech recognition models are attractive due to its simplicity in training and deployment. Recent work on large-scale training of such models has shown promising results compared to monolingual models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Ke Hu , Bo Li , Tara N. Sainath

Recently, language identity information has been utilized to improve the performance of end-to-end code-switching (CS) speech recognition. However, previous works use an additional language identification (LID) model as an auxiliary module,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Shuai Zhang , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengkun Tian , Jianhua Tao , Ye Bai

Combination approaches for speech recognition (ASR) systems cover structured sentence-level or word-based merging techniques as well as combination of model scores during beam search. In this work, we compare model combination across…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Noureldin Bayoumi , Robin Schmitt , Tina Raissi , Albert Zeyer , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

In end-to-end automatic speech recognition system, one of the difficulties for language expansion is the limited paired speech and text training data. In this paper, we propose a novel method to generate augmented samples with unpaired…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Eric Sun , Jinyu Li , Jian Xue , Yifan Gong

We introduce dual-decoder Transformer, a new model architecture that jointly performs automatic speech recognition (ASR) and multilingual speech translation (ST). Our models are based on the original Transformer architecture (Vaswani et…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-21 Hang Le , Juan Pino , Changhan Wang , Jiatao Gu , Didier Schwab , Laurent Besacier

For automatic speech translation (AST), end-to-end approaches are outperformed by cascaded models that transcribe with automatic speech recognition (ASR), then translate with machine translation (MT). A major cause of the performance gap is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Juan Pino , Liezl Puzon , Jiatao Gu , Xutai Ma , Arya D. McCarthy , Deepak Gopinath

End-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are rapidly claiming to become state-of-art over other modeling methods. Several techniques have been introduced to improve their ability to handle multiple languages. However, due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Rohit Kumar

Speech applications dealing with conversations require not only recognizing the spoken words, but also determining who spoke when. The task of assigning words to speakers is typically addressed by merging the outputs of two separate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Laurent El Shafey , Hagen Soltau , Izhak Shafran

To better model the contextual information and increase the generalization ability of Speech Activity Detection (SAD) system, this paper leverages a multi-lingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system to perform SAD. Sequence…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo , Srikanth Madikeri , Petr Motlicek

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a relevant area in multiple settings because it provides a natural communication mechanism between applications and users. ASRs often fail in environments that use language specific to particular…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Rafael Viana-Cámara , Mario Campos-Soberanis , Diego Campos-Sobrino

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often degrade on accented speech because acoustic-phonetic and prosodic shifts induce a mismatch to training data, making labeled accent adaptation costly. However, common pseudo-label selection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ligong Lei , Wenwen Lu , Xudong Pang , Zaokere Kadeer , Aishan Wumaier

Voice assistants increasingly use on-device Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to ensure speed and privacy. However, due to resource constraints on the device, queries pertaining to complex information domains often require further…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Iwen E. Kang , Christophe Van Gysel , Man-Hung Siu