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Modern automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have been observed to function better for certain speaker groups (SGs) than others, despite recent gains in overall performance. One potential impediment to progress towards fairer ASR is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Felix Herron , Solange Rossato , Alexandre Allauzen , François Portet

Although Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have become an integral part of modern technology, their evaluation remains challenging, particularly for low-resource languages such as Persian. This paper introduces Persian Speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Nima Sedghiyeh , Sara Sadeghi , Reza Khodadadi , Farzin Kashani , Omid Aghdaei , Somayeh Rahimi , Mohammad Sadegh Safari

This paper describes methods for evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in comparison with human perception results, using measures derived from linguistic distinctive features. Error patterns in terms of manner, place and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Xiang Kong , Jeung-Yoon Choi , Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

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…

Driven by large scale datasets and LLM based architectures, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved remarkable improvements in accuracy. However, challenges persist for domain-specific terminology, and short utterances…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Jinming Chen , Lu Wang , Zheshu Song , Wei Deng

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for dysarthric speech remains challenging due to data scarcity, particularly in non-English languages. To address this, we fine-tune a voice conversion model on English dysarthric speech (UASpeech) to…

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) research has achieved impressive performance in recent years and has significant potential for enabling access for people with dysarthria (PwD) in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and home…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Wing-Zin Leung , Mattias Cross , Anton Ragni , Stefan Goetze

Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) is an interdisciplinary application of computer science and linguistics that enable us to derive the transcription from the uttered speech waveform. It finds several applications in Military like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Priyank Dubey , Bilal Shah

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an integral component of modern technology, powering applications such as voice-activated assistants, transcription services, and accessibility tools. Yet ASR systems continue to struggle with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Mohammad Reza Peyghan , Saman Soleimani Roudi , Saeedreza Zouashkiani , Sajjad Amini , Fatemeh Rajabi , Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami

Recent advancements in deep learning (DL) have posed a significant challenge for automatic speech recognition (ASR). ASR relies on extensive training datasets, including confidential ones, and demands substantial computational and storage…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Hamza Kheddar , Mustapha Hemis , Yassine Himeur

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, increasingly prevalent in education, healthcare, employment, and mobile technology, face significant challenges in inclusivity, particularly for the 80 million-strong global community of people…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Dena Mujtaba , Nihar R. Mahapatra , Megan Arney , J. Scott Yaruss , Hope Gerlach-Houck , Caryn Herring , Jia Bin

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an imperfect process that results in certain mismatches in ASR output text when compared to plain written text or transcriptions. When plain text data is to be used to train systems for spoken language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Prashant Serai , Vishal Sunder , Eric Fosler-Lussier

Many existing works on voice conversion (VC) tasks use automatic speech recognition (ASR) models for ensuring linguistic consistency between source and converted samples. However, for the low-data resource domains, training a high-quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Mayank Kumar Singh , Naoya Takahashi , Onoe Naoyuki

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) performance for low-resource languages is still far behind that of higher-resource languages such as English, due to a lack of sufficient labeled data. State-of-the-art methods deploy self-supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Reihaneh Amooie , Wietse de Vries , Yun Hao , Jelske Dijkstra , Matt Coler , Martijn Wieling

Speaker change detection (SCD) is an important feature that improves the readability of the recognized words from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system by breaking the word sequence into paragraphs at speaker change points. Existing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Jian Wu , Zhuo Chen , Min Hu , Xiong Xiao , Jinyu Li

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

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is greatly developed in recent years, which expedites many applications on other fields. For the ASR research, speech corpus is always an essential foundation, especially for the vertical industry, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Bo Yang , Xianlong Tan , Zhengmao Chen , Bing Wang , Dan Li , Zhongping Yang , Xiping Wu , Yi Lin

It is challenging to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance in noisy conditions with a single-channel speech enhancement (SE) front-end. This is generally attributed to the processing distortions caused by the nonlinear…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Tsubasa Ochiai , Kazuma Iwamoto , Marc Delcroix , Rintaro Ikeshita , Hiroshi Sato , Shoko Araki , Shigeru Katagiri

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a key area in computational linguistics, focusing on developing technologies that enable computers to convert spoken language into text. This field combines linguistics and machine learning. ASR models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Anish Saha , A. G. Ramakrishnan

Recent breakthroughs in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) have enabled fully automated Alzheimer's Disease (AD) detection using ASR transcripts. Nonetheless, the impact of ASR errors on AD detection remains poorly understood. This paper…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Yin-Long Liu , Rui Feng , Jia-Xin Chen , Yi-Ming Wang , Jia-Hong Yuan , Zhen-Hua Ling