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Overlapping speech remains a major challenge for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in real-world applications, particularly in broadcast media with dynamic, multi-speaker interactions. We propose a light-weight, target-speaker-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Aleš Pražák , Marie Kunešová , Josef Psutka

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has shown remarkable progress, yet it still faces challenges in real-world distant scenarios across various array topologies each with multiple recording devices. The focal point of the CHiME-7 Distant ASR…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Bingshen Mu , Pengcheng Guo , Dake Guo , Pan Zhou , Wei Chen , Lei Xie

Attention-based encoder-decoder architectures such as Listen, Attend, and Spell (LAS), subsume the acoustic, pronunciation and language model components of a traditional automatic speech recognition (ASR) system into a single neural…

It is difficult for an E2E ASR system to recognize words such as entities appearing infrequently in the training data. A widely used method to mitigate this issue is feeding contextual information into the acoustic model. Previous works…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Zhanheng Yang , Sining Sun , Xiong Wang , Yike Zhang , Long Ma , Lei Xie

Given the increasing number of livestreaming videos, automatic speech recognition and post-processing for livestreaming video transcripts are crucial for efficient data management as well as knowledge mining. A key step in this process is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Viet Dac Lai , Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Franck Dernoncourt , Thien Huu Nguyen

Recent advancements in speech-based topic segmentation have highlighted the potential of pretrained speech encoders to capture semantic representations directly from speech. Traditionally, topic segmentation has relied on a pipeline…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Sakshi Deo Shukla , Pavel Denisov , Tugtekin Turan

This paper considers the impact of automatic segmentation on the fully-automatic, semi-supervised training of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for five-lingual code-switched (CS) speech. Four automatic segmentation techniques were…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-15 N. Wilkinson , A. Biswas , E. Yılmaz , F. de Wet , E. van der Westhuizen , T. R. Niesler

This paper presents a new method for training sequence-to-sequence models for speech recognition and translation tasks. Instead of the traditional approach of training models on short segments containing only lowercase or partial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Nithin Rao Koluguri , Travis Bartley , Hainan Xu , Oleksii Hrinchuk , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg , Georg Kucsko

Diarization is a crucial component in meeting transcription systems to ease the challenges of speech enhancement and attribute the transcriptions to the correct speaker. Particularly in the presence of overlapping or noisy speech, these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Christoph Boeddeker , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

It is estimated that around 70 million people worldwide are affected by a speech disorder called stuttering. With recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), voice assistants are increasingly useful in our everyday lives. Many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Olabanji Shonibare , Xiaosu Tong , Venkatesh Ravichandran

For many streaming automatic speech recognition tasks, it is important to provide timely intermediate streaming results, while refining a high quality final result. This can be done using a multi-stage architecture, where a small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Antoine Bruguier , David Qiu , Yanzhang He

By incorporating additional contextual information, deep biasing methods have emerged as a promising solution for speech recognition of personalized words. However, for real-world voice assistants, always biasing on such personalized words…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Tianyi Xu , Zhanheng Yang , Kaixun Huang , Pengcheng Guo , Ao Zhang , Biao Li , Changru Chen , Chao Li , Lei Xie

Chunk-based inference stands out as a popular approach in developing real-time streaming speech recognition, valued for its simplicity and efficiency. However, because it restricts the model's focus to only the history and current chunk…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Khanh Le , Duc Chau

An inferior performance of the streaming automatic speech recognition models versus non-streaming model is frequently seen due to the absence of future context. In order to improve the performance of the streaming model and reduce the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Jingyu Sun , Guiping Zhong , Dinghao Zhou , Baoxiang Li

Improving the representation of contextual information is key to unlocking the potential of end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this work, we present a novel and simple approach for training an ASR context mechanism with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-30 Uri Alon , Golan Pundak , Tara N. Sainath

Streaming Machine Translation (MT) is the task of translating an unbounded input text stream in real-time. The traditional cascade approach, which combines an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and an MT system, relies on an intermediate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Javier Iranzo-Sánchez , Jorge Iranzo-Sánchez , Adrià Giménez , Jorge Civera , Alfons Juan

In the present paper, an attempt is made to combine Mask-CTC and the triggered attention mechanism to construct a streaming end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that provides high performance with low latency. The triggered…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Huaibo Zhao , Yosuke Higuchi , Tetsuji Ogawa , Tetsunori Kobayashi

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has achieved remarkable success with deep learning, driving advancements in conversational artificial intelligence, media transcription, and assistive technologies. However, ASR systems still struggle in…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Haoyuan Yang , Yue Zhang , Liqiang Jing , John H. L. Hansen

The demand for fast and accurate incremental speech recognition increases as the applications of automatic speech recognition (ASR) proliferate. Incremental speech recognizers output chunks of partially recognized words while the user is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Yuan Shangguan , Kate Knister , Yanzhang He , Ian McGraw , Francoise Beaufays

One challenge in speech translation is that plenty of spoken content is long-form, but short units are necessary for obtaining high-quality translations. To address this mismatch, we adapt large language models (LLMs) to split long ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Arya D. McCarthy , Hao Zhang , Shankar Kumar , Felix Stahlberg , Ke Wu