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Contextual biasing is an important and challenging task for end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, which aims to achieve better recognition performance by biasing the ASR system to particular context phrases such as person…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Xiaoqiang Wang , Yanqing Liu , Jinyu Li , Veljko Miljanic , Sheng Zhao , Hosam Khalil

Contextual biasing improves automatic speech recognition (ASR) by integrating external knowledge, such as user-specific phrases or entities, during decoding. In this work, we use an attention-based biasing decoder to produce scores for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Wanting Huang , Weiran Wang

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is becoming a ubiquitous technology. Although its accuracy is closing the gap with that of human level under certain settings, one area that can further improve is to incorporate user-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Young Mo Kang , Yingbo Zhou

Contextual automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems allow for recognizing out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words, such as named entities or rare words. However, it remains challenging due to limited training data and ambiguous or inconsistent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Changsong Liu , Yizhou Peng , Eng Siong Chng

This paper studies contextual biasing with Large Language Models (LLMs), where during second-pass rescoring additional contextual information is provided to a LLM to boost Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) performance. We propose to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Chuanneng Sun , Zeeshan Ahmed , Yingyi Ma , Zhe Liu , Lucas Kabela , Yutong Pang , Ozlem Kalinli

Neural sequence-to-sequence systems deliver state-of-the-art performance for automatic speech recognition. When using appropriate modeling units, e.g., byte-pair encoding, these systems are in principle open vocabulary systems. In practice,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Christian Huber , Alexander Waibel

End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has advanced significantly yet still struggles with rare and domain-specific entities. This paper introduces a simple yet efficient prompt-based biasing technique for contextualized ASR,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Bo Ren , Yu Shi , Jinyu Li

Contextual biasing is essential to improving the recognition of rare and domain-specific words in an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. While numerous methods have been proposed in recent years, most of them focus on offline…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Kai-Chen Tsai , Tien-Hong Lo , Yun-Ting Sun , Berlin Chen

Contextual ASR, which takes a list of bias terms as input along with audio, has drawn recent interest as ASR use becomes more widespread. We are releasing contextual biasing lists to accompany the Earnings21 dataset, creating a public…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jennifer Drexler Fox , Natalie Delworth

Existing research suggests that automatic speech recognition (ASR) models can benefit from additional contexts (e.g., contact lists, user specified vocabulary). Rare words and named entities can be better recognized with contexts. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Ruizhe Huang , Mahsa Yarmohammadi , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Daniel Povey

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) and large language models, such as Whisper and GPT-2, have recently been scaled to use vast amounts of training data. Despite the large amount of training data, infrequent content words that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Guangzhi Sun , Xianrui Zheng , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

Speech-aware LLMs (SLLMs) have recently achieved state-of-the-art ASR performance; however, they still fail to accurately transcribe bias words that appear rarely or never in the training data. Contextual biasing mechanisms are commonly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Sashi Novitasari , Takashi Fukuda , Kurata Gakuto , George Saon

Attention-based contextual biasing approaches have shown significant improvements in the recognition of generic and/or personal rare-words in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition (E2E ASR) systems like neural transducers. These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Xuandi Fu , Kanthashree Mysore Sathyendra , Ankur Gandhe , Jing Liu , Grant P. Strimel , Ross McGowan , Athanasios Mouchtaris

By incorporating additional contextual information, deep biasing methods have emerged as a promising solution for speech recognition of personalized words. However, for real-world voice assistants, always biasing on such personalized words…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Tianyi Xu , Zhanheng Yang , Kaixun Huang , Pengcheng Guo , Ao Zhang , Biao Li , Changru Chen , Chao Li , Lei Xie

Goal-oriented conversational interfaces are designed to accomplish specific tasks and typically have interactions that tend to span multiple turns adhering to a pre-defined structure and a goal. However, conventional neural language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ashish Shenoy , Sravan Bodapati , Katrin Kirchhoff

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

It's challenging to customize transducer-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) system with context information which is dynamic and unavailable during model training. In this work, we introduce a light-weight contextual spelling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Xiaoqiang Wang , Yanqing Liu , Sheng Zhao , Jinyu Li

Neural contextual biasing allows speech recognition models to leverage contextually relevant information, leading to improved transcription accuracy. However, the biasing mechanism is typically based on a cross-attention module between the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Nikolaos Flemotomos , Roger Hsiao , Pawel Swietojanski , Takaaki Hori , Dogan Can , Xiaodan Zhuang

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology has made significant progress in recent years, providing accurate transcription across various domains. However, some challenges remain, especially in noisy environments and specialized jargon.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Aviv Shamsian , Aviv Navon , Neta Glazer , Gill Hetz , Joseph Keshet

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) methods exhibit remarkable performance. However, since the performance of such methods is intrinsically linked to the context present in the training data, E2E-ASR methods do not perform…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Yui Sudo , Muhammad Shakeel , Yosuke Fukumoto , Yifan Peng , Shinji Watanabe
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