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Automatic speech recognition systems have undoubtedly advanced with the integration of multilingual and multitask models such as Whisper, which have shown a promising ability to understand and process speech across a wide range of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Xabier de Zuazo , Eva Navas , Ibon Saratxaga , Inma Hernáez Rioja

In automatic speech recognition (ASR) rescoring, the hypothesis with the fewest errors should be selected from the n-best list using a language model (LM). However, LMs are usually trained to maximize the likelihood of correct word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Hayato Futami , Hirofumi Inaguma , Masato Mimura , Shinsuke Sakai , Tatsuya Kawahara

Modern Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems can achieve high performance in terms of recognition accuracy. However, a perfectly accurate transcript still can be challenging to read due to grammatical errors, disfluency, and other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Junwei Liao , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Liyang Lu , Yu Shi , Ming Gong , Linjun Shou , Hong Qu , Michael Zeng

We propose a simple method for automatic speech recognition (ASR) by fine-tuning BERT, which is a language model (LM) trained on large-scale unlabeled text data and can generate rich contextual representations. Our assumption is that given…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Wen-Chin Huang , Chia-Hua Wu , Shang-Bao Luo , Kuan-Yu Chen , Hsin-Min Wang , Tomoki Toda

Target-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) aims to transcribe the desired speech of a target speaker from multi-talker overlapped utterances. Most of the existing target-speaker ASR (TS-ASR) methods involve either training from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Hao Ma , Zhiyuan Peng , Mingjie Shao , Jing Li , Ju Liu

End-to-end approaches for automatic speech recognition (ASR) benefit from directly modeling the probability of the word sequence given the input audio stream in a single neural network. However, compared to conventional ASR systems, these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Ankur Gandhe , Ariya Rastrow

We show the performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems that use semi-supervised speech representations can be boosted by a complimentary pitch accent detection module, by introducing a joint ASR and pitch accent detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 David Sasu , Natalie Schluter

In this article, we present an approach for non native automatic speech recognition (ASR). We propose two methods to adapt existing ASR systems to the non-native accents. The first method is based on the modification of acoustic models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-11-08 Ghazi Bouselmi , Dominique Fohr , Irina Illina , Jean-Paul Haton

There is increasingly more evidence that automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are biased against different speakers and speaker groups, e.g., due to gender, age, or accent. Research on bias in ASR has so far primarily focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Tanvina Patel , Wiebke Hutiri , Aaron Yi Ding , Odette Scharenborg

End-to-end (E2E) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models are trained using paired audio-text samples that are expensive to obtain, since high-quality ground-truth data requires human annotators. Voice search applications, such as digital…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Christophe Van Gysel , Maggie Wu , Lyan Verwimp , Caglar Tirkaz , Marco Bertola , Zhihong Lei , Youssef Oualil

While current state-of-the-art Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems achieve high accuracy on typical speech, they suffer from significant performance degradation on disordered speech and other atypical speech patterns. Personalization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Katrin Tomanek , Françoise Beaufays , Julie Cattiau , Angad Chandorkar , Khe Chai Sim

Prompts are crucial to large language models as they provide context information such as topic or logical relationships. Inspired by this, we propose PromptASR, a framework that integrates prompts in end-to-end automatic speech recognition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Xiaoyu Yang , Wei Kang , Zengwei Yao , Yifan Yang , Liyong Guo , Fangjun Kuang , Long Lin , Daniel Povey

New Advances in machine learning have made Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) systems practical and more scalable. These systems, however, pose serious privacy threats as speech is a rich source of sensitive acoustic and textual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Shimaa Ahmed , Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Kassem Fawaz , Parmesh Ramanathan

Speech enhancement (SE) systems are typically evaluated using a variety of instrumental metrics. The use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to evaluate SE performance is common in literature, usually in terms of word error rate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Danilo de Oliveira , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

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

Accurately finding the wrong words in the automatic speech recognition (ASR) hypothesis and recovering them well-founded is the goal of speech error correction. In this paper, we propose a non-autoregressive speech error correction method.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Yuchun Shu , Bo Hu , Yifeng He , Hao Shi , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Recent studies have proposed the use of Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems to automatically synthesise speech test cases on a scale and uncover a large number of failures in ASR systems. However, the failures uncovered by synthetic test cases may…

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in the medical domain that focus on transcribing clinical dictations and doctor-patient conversations often pose many challenges due to the complexity of the domain. ASR output typically undergoes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Monica Sunkara , Srikanth Ronanki , Kalpit Dixit , Sravan Bodapati , Katrin Kirchhoff

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often encounter difficulties in accurately recognizing rare words, leading to errors that can have a negative impact on downstream tasks such as keyword spotting, intent detection, and text…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jiajun He , Zekun Yang , Tomoki Toda

Existing research suggests that automatic speech recognition (ASR) models can benefit from additional contexts (e.g., contact lists, user specified vocabulary). Rare words and named entities can be better recognized with contexts. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Ruizhe Huang , Mahsa Yarmohammadi , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Daniel Povey