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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have demonstrated remarkable performance across various applications. However, limited data and the unique language features of specific domains, such as low-resource languages, significantly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Amin Robatian , Mohammad Hajipour , Mohammad Reza Peyghan , Fatemeh Rajabi , Sajjad Amini , Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami , Iman Gholampour

End-to-end (E2E) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models are trained using paired audio-text samples that are expensive to obtain, since high-quality ground-truth data requires human annotators. Voice search applications, such as digital…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Christophe Van Gysel , Maggie Wu , Lyan Verwimp , Caglar Tirkaz , Marco Bertola , Zhihong Lei , Youssef Oualil

Automatic recognition of dysarthric speech remains a highly challenging task to date. Neuro-motor conditions and co-occurring physical disabilities create difficulty in large-scale data collection for ASR system development. Adapting SSL…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Huimeng Wang , Zengrui Jin , Mengzhe Geng , Shujie Hu , Guinan Li , Tianzi Wang , Haoning Xu , Xunying Liu

Recent advancements in supervised automatic speech recognition (ASR) have achieved remarkable performance, largely due to the growing availability of large transcribed speech corpora. However, most languages lack sufficient paired speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Junrui Ni , Liming Wang , Yang Zhang , Kaizhi Qian , Heting Gao , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Chang D. Yoo

The word error rate (WER) of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system increases when a mismatch occurs between the training and the testing conditions due to the noise, etc. In this case, the acoustic information can be less reliable.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Dominique Fohr , Irina Illina

We consider the problem of recognizing speech utterances spoken to a device which is generating a known sound waveform; for example, recognizing queries issued to a digital assistant which is generating responses to previous user inputs.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Nathan Howard , Alex Park , Turaj Zakizadeh Shabestary , Alexander Gruenstein , Rohit Prabhavalkar

Sequence-to-sequence models, such as attention-based models in automatic speech recognition (ASR), are typically trained to optimize the cross-entropy criterion which corresponds to improving the log-likelihood of the data. However, system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Rohit Prabhavalkar , Tara N. Sainath , Yonghui Wu , Patrick Nguyen , Zhifeng Chen , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Anjuli Kannan

In this work, we propose an error correction framework, named DiaCorrect, to refine the output of a diarization system in a simple yet effective way. This method is inspired by error correction techniques in automatic speech recognition.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Jiangyu Han , Federico Landini , Johan Rohdin , Mireia Diez , Lukas Burget , Yuhang Cao , Heng Lu , Jan Cernocky

Word error rate (WER) estimation aims to evaluate the quality of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system's output without requiring ground-truth labels. This task has gained increasing attention as advanced ASR systems are trained on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Chanho Park , Chengsong Lu , Mingjie Chen , Thomas Hain

This paper presents a new approach to the problem of correcting speech recognition errors by means of post-editing. It consists of using a neural sequence tagger that learns how to correct an ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) hypothesis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Tomasz Ziętkiewicz

In this work, we introduce a simple yet efficient post-processing model for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Our model has Transformer-based encoder-decoder architecture which "translates" ASR model output into grammatically and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Oleksii Hrinchuk , Mariya Popova , Boris Ginsburg

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 often make unrecoverable errors due to subsystem pruning (acoustic, language and pronunciation models); for example pruning words due to acoustics using short-term context, prior to rescoring with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar , Haoqi Li , Kevin Knight , Panayiotis Georgiou

Automatic text-based diacritic restoration models generally have high diacritic error rates when applied to speech transcripts as a result of domain and style shifts in spoken language. In this work, we explore the possibility of improving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sara Shatnawi , Sawsan Alqahtani , Hanan Aldarmaki

With the advancement of deep learning techniques, the performance of Automatic Program Repair(APR) techniques has reached a new level. Previous deep learning-based APR techniques essentially modified program sentences in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhenyu Yang , Zhen Yang , Zhongxing Yu

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have traditionally been evaluated using English datasets, with the word error rate (WER) serving as the predominant metric. WER's simplicity and ease of interpretation have contributed to its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Thennal D K , Jesin James , Deepa P Gopinath , Muhammed Ashraf K

Recent advances in supervised, semi-supervised and self-supervised deep learning algorithms have shown significant improvement in the performance of automatic speech recognition(ASR) systems. The state-of-the-art systems have achieved a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Somnath Roy

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) for personalizing automatic speech recognition (ASR) has recently shown promise for adapting general population models to atypical speech. However, these approaches assume a priori knowledge of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Max Müller-Eberstein , Dianna Yee , Karren Yang , Gautam Varma Mantena , Colin Lea

Accents play a pivotal role in shaping human communication, enhancing our ability to convey and comprehend messages with clarity and cultural nuance. While there has been significant progress in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Bonaventure F. P. Dossou

Error correction (EC) based on large language models is an emerging technology to enhance the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Generally, training data for EC are collected by automatically pairing a large set of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Takuma Udagawa , Masayuki Suzuki , Masayasu Muraoka , Gakuto Kurata