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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) outcomes serve as input for downstream tasks, substantially impacting the satisfaction level of end-users. Hence, the diagnosis and enhancement of the vulnerabilities present in the ASR model bear…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Seonmin Koo , Chanjun Park , Jinsung Kim , Jaehyung Seo , Sugyeong Eo , Hyeonseok Moon , Heuiseok Lim

As an emerging field in Machine Learning, Explainable AI (XAI) has been offering remarkable performance in interpreting the decisions made by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). To achieve visual explanations for CNNs, methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Sam Sattarzadeh , Mahesh Sudhakar , Anthony Lem , Shervin Mehryar , K. N. Plataniotis , Jongseong Jang , Hyunwoo Kim , Yeonjeong Jeong , Sangmin Lee , Kyunghoon Bae

As human-machine voice interfaces provide easy access to increasingly intelligent machines, many state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are proposed. However, commercial ASR systems usually have poor performance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Yanan Jia

Speech is the fundamental means of communication between humans. The advent of AI and sophisticated speech technologies have led to the rapid proliferation of human-to-computer-based interactions, fueled primarily by Automatic Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Mikel K. Ngueajio , Gloria Washington

The performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems has constantly increased in state-of-the-art development. However, performance tends to decrease considerably in more challenging conditions (e.g., background noise, multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ronald Cumbal , Birger Moell , Jose Lopes , Olof Engwall

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) performance is heavily dependent on the availability of large-scale, high-quality datasets. For low-resource languages, existing open-source ASR datasets often suffer from insufficient quality and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Thi Vu , Linh The Nguyen , Dat Quoc Nguyen

Explainable AI (XAI) has achieved remarkable success in image classification, yet the audio domain lacks equally mature solutions. Current methods apply vision-based attribution techniques to spectrograms, overlooking fundamental…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Piotr Kawa , Kornel Howil , Piotr Borycki , Miłosz Adamczyk , Przemysław Spurek , Piotr Syga

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

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

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a popular declarative reasoning and problem solving approach in symbolic AI. Its rule-based formalism makes it inherently attractive for explainable and interpretive reasoning, which is gaining importance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Thomas Eiter , Tobias Geibinger , Zeynep G. Saribatur

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 investigate the efficiency of two very different spoken term detection approaches for transcription when the available data is insufficient to train a robust ASR system. This work is grounded in very low-resource language documentation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Éric Le Ferrand , Steven Bird , Laurent Besacier

Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) aims to develop transparent explanatory approaches for "black-box" deep learning models. However,it remains difficult for existing methods to achieve the trade-off of the three key criteria in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Changqi Sun , Hao Xu , Yuntian Chen , Dongxiao Zhang

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 disfluency, filter words, and other errata…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Junwei Liao , Yu Shi , Ming Gong , Linjun Shou , Sefik Eskimez , Liyang Lu , Hong Qu , Michael Zeng

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

The main motivation for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is efficient interfaces to computers, and for the interfaces to be natural and truly useful, it should provide coverage for a large group of users. The purpose of these tasks is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Urmila Shrawankar , VM Thakare

As speech recognition model sizes and training data requirements grow, it is increasingly common for systems to only be available via APIs from online service providers rather than having direct access to models themselves. In this scenario…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Rao Ma , Mengjie Qian , Mark J. F. Gales , Kate M. Knill

Neural networks (NNs) have various applications in AI, but explaining their decisions remains challenging. Existing approaches often focus on explaining how changing individual inputs affects NNs' outputs. However, an explanation that is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Hamed Ayoobi , Nico Potyka , Francesca Toni

Linguistic anomalies detectable in spontaneous speech have shown promise for various clinical applications including screening for dementia and other forms of cognitive impairment. The feasibility of deploying automated tools that can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Changye Li , Trevor Cohen , Serguei Pakhomov

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) plays a pivotal role in our daily lives, offering utility not only for interacting with machines but also for facilitating communication for individuals with partial or profound hearing impairments. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Billel Essaid , Hamza Kheddar , Noureddine Batel , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury , Abderrahmane Lakas