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Multilingual Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) systems allow for the joint training of data-rich and data-scarce languages in a single model. This enables data and parameter sharing across languages, which is especially beneficial for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Arindrima Datta , Bhuvana Ramabhadran , Jesse Emond , Anjuli Kannan , Brian Roark

Utilizing Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) models for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has proven effective, yet limited research has explored cross-lingual scenarios. This study presents a comparative analysis between human performance and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Zhichen Han , Tianqi Geng , Hui Feng , Jiahong Yuan , Korin Richmond , Yuanchao Li

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) can achieve promising performance with large-scale training data. However, it is known that domain mismatch between training and testing data often leads to a degradation of recognition…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Wenxin Hou , Jindong Wang , Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Takahiro Shinozaki

Evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a classical but difficult and still open problem, which often boils down to focusing only on the word error rate (WER). However, this metric suffers from many limitations and does not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Thibault Bañeras-Roux , Mickaël Rouvier , Jane Wottawa , Richard Dufour

Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) based end-to-end speech recognition system usually need to incorporate an external language model by using WFST-based decoding in order to achieve promising results. This is more essential to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-24 Shiliang Zhang , Ming Lei , Zhijie Yan

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models have achieved considerable improvements in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In addition, ASR performance could be further improved if the model is dedicated to audio content information learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-08 Genshun Wan , Tan Liu , Hang Chen , Jia Pan , Cong Liu , Zhongfu Ye

Code-switching is a speech phenomenon occurring when a speaker switches language during a conversation. Despite the spontaneous nature of code-switching in conversational spoken language, most existing works collect code-switching data from…

The external language models (LM) integration remains a challenging task for end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) which has no clear division between acoustic and language models. In this work, we propose an internal LM…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Zhong Meng , Sarangarajan Parthasarathy , Eric Sun , Yashesh Gaur , Naoyuki Kanda , Liang Lu , Xie Chen , Rui Zhao , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

Large language models (LLM) have demonstrated the ability to understand human language by leveraging large amount of text data. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are often limited by available transcribed speech data and benefit…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar , Jari Kolehmainen , Aditya Gourav , Yi Gu , Ankur Gandhe , Ariya Rastrow , Ivan Bulyko

Text encodings from automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts and audio representations have shown promise in speech emotion recognition (SER) ever since. Yet, it is challenging to explain the effect of each information stream on the…

Although great progresses have been made in automatic speech recognition (ASR), significant performance degradation is still observed when recognizing multi-talker mixed speech. In this paper, we propose and evaluate several architectures…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yanmin Qian , Xuankai Chang , Dong Yu

This paper presents our latest investigations on different features for factored language models for Code-Switching speech and their effect on automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance. We focus on syntactic and semantic features which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Heike Adel , Ngoc Thang Vu , Katrin Kirchhoff , Dominic Telaar , Tanja Schultz

Approximately half of the world's population is multilingual, making multilingual ASR (MASR) essential. Deploying multiple monolingual models is challenging when the ground-truth language is unknown in advance. This motivates research…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Harrison Zhu , Ivan Fung , Yingke Zhu , Lahiru Samarakoon

This paper presents a unified multi-speaker encoder (UME), a novel architecture that jointly learns representations for speaker diarization (SD), speech separation (SS), and multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks using a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Muhammad Shakeel , Yui Sudo , Yifan Peng , Chyi-Jiunn Lin , Shinji Watanabe

Human language is a combination of elemental languages/domains/styles that change across and sometimes within discourses. Language models, which play a crucial role in speech recognizers and machine translation systems, are particularly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-03-22 Damianos Karakos , Mark Dredze , Sanjeev Khudanpur

We present a method for transferring pre-trained self-supervised (SSL) speech representations to multiple languages. There is an abundance of unannotated speech, so creating self-supervised representations from raw audio and fine-tuning on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Samuel Kessler , Bethan Thomas , Salah Karout

For conversational large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) tasks, up to about two thousand hours of audio is commonly used to train state of the art models. Collection of labeled conversational audio however, is prohibitively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Shane Walker , Morten Pedersen , Iroro Orife , Jason Flaks

Sequence-to-sequence attention-based models have recently shown very promising results on automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks, which integrate an acoustic, pronunciation and language model into a single neural network. In these models,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-05 Shiyu Zhou , Linhao Dong , Shuang Xu , Bo Xu

Source separation is a crucial pre-processing step for various speech processing tasks, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR). Traditionally, the evaluation metrics for speech separation rely on the matched reference audios and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Ari Frummer , Helin Wang , Tianyu Cao , Adi Arbel , Yuval Sieradzki , Oren Gal , Jesús Villalba , Thomas Thebaud , Najim Dehak

Discrete speech representations have garnered recent attention for their efficacy in training transformer-based models for various speech-related tasks such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), translation, speaker verification, and joint…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Kunal Dhawan , Nithin Rao Koluguri , Ante Jukić , Ryan Langman , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg