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In real-world applications, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems must handle overlapping speech from multiple speakers and recognize rare words like technical terms. Traditional methods address multi-talker ASR and contextual biasing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Jiajun He , Naoki Sawada , Koichi Miyazaki , Tomoki Toda

This paper presents a novel semantic-enhanced decoding scheme for transmitting natural language sentences with multiple short block codes over noisy wireless channels. After ASCII source coding, the natural language sentence message is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Jiafu Hao , Chentao Yue , Hao Chang , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

Source separation can improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) under multi-party meeting scenarios by extracting single-speaker signals from overlapped speech. Despite the success of self-supervised learning models in single-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Yuang Li , Xianrui Zheng , Philip C. Woodland

Prior methods to text segmentation are mostly at token level. Despite the adequacy, this nature limits their full potential to capture the long-term dependencies among segments. In this work, we propose a novel framework that incrementally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Yangming Li , Lemao Liu , Kaisheng Yao

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

Multilingual speech data often suffer from long-tailed language distribution, resulting in performance degradation. However, multilingual text data is much easier to obtain, yielding a more useful general language model. Hence, we are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Kwanghee Choi , Hyung-Min Park

There is a growing interest in expanding the input capacity of language models (LMs) across various domains. However, simply increasing the context window does not guarantee robust performance across diverse long-input processing tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wei Shi , Shuang Li , Kerun Yu , Jinglei Chen , Zujie Liang , Xinhui Wu , Yuxi Qian , Feng Wei , Bo Zheng , Jiaqing Liang , Jiangjie Chen , Yanghua Xiao

The authors of (Cho et al., 2014a) have shown that the recently introduced neural network translation systems suffer from a significant drop in translation quality when translating long sentences, unlike existing phrase-based translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Jean Pouget-Abadie , Dzmitry Bahdanau , Bart van Merrienboer , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

Recent advancements in morpheme segmentation primarily emphasize word-level segmentation, often neglecting the contextual relevance within the sentence. In this study, we redefine the morpheme segmentation task as a sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Prabin Bhandari , Abhishek Paudel

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) is crucial for many real-world applications, but it requires dedicated modeling techniques. Existing approaches can be divided into modular and end-to-end methods. Modular approaches separate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Simon Berger , Peter Vieting , Christoph Boeddeker , Ralf Schlüter , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Spoken content, such as online videos and podcasts, often spans multiple topics, which makes automatic topic segmentation essential for user navigation and downstream applications. However, current methods do not fully leverage acoustic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Steffen Freisinger , Philipp Seeberger , Tobias Bocklet , Korbinian Riedhammer

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (MS-ASR) faces significant challenges in transcribing overlapped speech, a task critical for applications like meeting transcription and conversational analysis. While serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Yuke Lin , Ming Cheng , Ze Li , Beilong Tang , Ming Li

Recent studies of streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T)-based systems have fed the encoder with past contextual information in order to improve its word error rate (WER) performance. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Alejandro Gomez-Alanis , Lukas Drude , Andreas Schwarz , Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan , Simon Wiesler

Discourse segmentation, which segments texts into Elementary Discourse Units, is a fundamental step in discourse analysis. Previous discourse segmenters rely on complicated hand-crafted features and are not practical in actual use. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Yizhong Wang , Sujian Li , Jingfeng Yang

Segmentation remains an important preprocessing step both in languages where "words" or other important syntactic/semantic units (like morphemes) are not clearly delineated by white space, as well as when dealing with continuous speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 C. M. Downey , Fei Xia , Gina-Anne Levow , Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

End-to-end speech recognition is a promising technology for enabling compact automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems since it can unify the acoustic and language model into a single neural network. However, as a drawback, training of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yotaro Kubo , Shigeki Karita , Michiel Bacchiani

This study presents a novel approach for knowledge distillation (KD) from a BERT teacher model to an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model using intermediate layers. To distil the teacher's knowledge, we use an attention decoder that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Michael Hentschel , Yuta Nishikawa , Tatsuya Komatsu , Yusuke Fujita

In this work, we focus on improving ASR output segmentation in the context of low-resource language speech-to-text translation. ASR output segmentation is crucial, as ASR systems segment the input audio using purely acoustic information and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 David Wan , Zhengping Jiang , Chris Kedzie , Elsbeth Turcan , Peter Bell , Kathleen McKeown

Speech separation seeks to isolate individual speech signals from a multi-talk speech mixture. Despite much progress, a system well-trained on synthetic data often experiences performance degradation on out-of-domain data, such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wupeng Wang , Zexu Pan , Jingru Lin , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li

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