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A key challenge in dysarthric speech recognition is the speaker-level diversity attributed to both speaker-identity associated factors such as gender, and speech impairment severity. Most prior researches on addressing this issue focused on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Mengzhe Geng , Zengrui Jin , Tianzi Wang , Shujie Hu , Jiajun Deng , Mingyu Cui , Guinan Li , Jianwei Yu , Xurong Xie , Xunying Liu

Despite the remarkable progress in end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) engines, accurately transcribing dysarthric speech remains a major challenge. In this work, we proposed a two-stage framework for the Speech Accessibility…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Moreno La Quatra , Alkis Koudounas , Valerio Mario Salerno , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi

Despite the rapid progress of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies targeting normal speech in recent decades, accurate recognition of dysarthric and elderly speech remains highly challenging tasks to date. Sources of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Mengzhe Geng , Xurong Xie , Zi Ye , Tianzi Wang , Guinan Li , Shujie Hu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Although many Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have been developed for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Dialectal Arabic (DA), few studies have focused on dialect-specific implementations, particularly for low-resource Arabic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ayman Mansour

Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder often characterized by reduced speech intelligibility through slow, uncoordinated control of speech production muscles. Automatic Speech recognition (ASR) systems may help dysarthric talkers communicate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-28 Mohammad Soleymanpour , Michael T. Johnson , Rahim Soleymanpour , Jeffrey Berry

In this work, we present our submission to the Speech Accessibility Project challenge for dysarthric speech recognition. We integrate parameter-efficient fine-tuning with latent audio representations to improve an encoder-decoder ASR…

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

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…

Dysarthric speech recognition (DSR) enhances the accessibility of smart devices for dysarthric speakers with limited mobility. Previously, DSR research was constrained by the fact that existing datasets typically consisted of isolated…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiyao Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Shiwan Zhao , Yong Qin

In this paper, we propose a novel auxiliary loss function for target-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR). Our method automatically extracts and transcribes target speaker's utterances from a monaural mixture of multiple speakers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Naoyuki Kanda , Shota Horiguchi , Ryoichi Takashima , Yusuke Fujita , Kenji Nagamatsu , Shinji Watanabe

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems remain brittle on dysarthric and other atypical speech. Recent audio-language models raise the possibility of improving performance by conditioning on additional clinical context at inference time,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pehuén Moure , Niclas Pokel , Bilal Bounajma , Yingqiang Gao , Roman Boehringer , Longbiao Cheng , Shih-Chii Liu

We present an analysis of diacritic recognition performance in Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. As most existing Arabic speech corpora do not contain all diacritical marks, which represent short vowels and other phonetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Hanan Aldarmaki , Ahmad Ghannam

Dysarthric speech recognition (DSR) presents a formidable challenge due to inherent inter-speaker variability, leading to severe performance degradation when applying DSR models to new dysarthric speakers. Traditional speaker adaptation…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Shiyao Wang , Shiwan Zhao , Jiaming Zhou , Aobo Kong , Yong Qin

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has advanced with Speech Foundation Models (SFMs), yet performance degrades on dysarthric speech due to variability and limited data. This study as part of the submission to the Speech Accessibility…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Alexandre Ducorroy , Rachid Riad

Automatic recognition of disordered and elderly speech remains a highly challenging task to date due to the difficulty in collecting such data in large quantities. This paper explores a series of approaches to integrate domain adapted SSL…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Shujie Hu , Xurong Xie , Zengrui Jin , Mengzhe Geng , Yi Wang , Mingyu Cui , Jiajun Deng , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Pre-trained transformer-based models have significantly advanced automatic speech recognition (ASR), yet they remain sensitive to accent and dialectal variations, resulting in elevated word error rates (WER) in linguistically diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Mohammad Hossein Sameti , Sepehr Harfi Moridani , Ali Zarean , Hossein Sameti

Speech Recognition (ASR) due to phoneme distortions and high variability. While self-supervised ASR models like Wav2Vec, HuBERT, and Whisper have shown promise, their effectiveness in dysarthric speech remains unclear. This study…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ahmed Aboeitta , Ahmed Sharshar , Youssef Nafea , Shady Shehata

Automatic speech recognition systems based on deep learning are mainly trained under empirical risk minimization (ERM). Since ERM utilizes the averaged performance on the data samples regardless of a group such as healthy or dysarthric…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Eungbeom Kim , Yunkee Chae , Jaeheon Sim , Kyogu Lee

Dysarthria, a common issue among stroke patients, severely impacts speech intelligibility. Inappropriate pauses are crucial indicators in severity assessment and speech-language therapy. We propose to extend a large-scale speech recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Jeehyun Lee , Yerin Choi , Tae-Jin Song , Myoung-Wan Koo

Dysarthric speech recognition has posed major challenges due to lack of training data and heavy mismatch in speaker characteristics. Recent ASR systems have benefited from readily available pretrained models such as wav2vec2 to improve the…