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Despite recent advances, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are still far from perfect. Typical errors include acronyms, named entities, and domain-specific special words for which little or no labeled data is available. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Christian Huber , Alexander Waibel

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

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a relevant area in multiple settings because it provides a natural communication mechanism between applications and users. ASRs often fail in environments that use language specific to particular…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Rafael Viana-Cámara , Mario Campos-Soberanis , Diego Campos-Sobrino

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

Fast contextual adaptation has shown to be effective in improving Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) of rare words and when combined with an on-device personalized training, it can yield an even better recognition result. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Khe Chai Sim , Angad Chandorkar , Fan Gao , Mason Chua , Trevor Strohman , Françoise Beaufays

Recent advances in deep learning and automatic speech recognition (ASR) have enabled the end-to-end (E2E) ASR system and boosted the accuracy to a new level. The E2E systems implicitly model all conventional ASR components, such as the…

The performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) has improved tremendously due to the application of deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite this progress, building a new ASR system remains a challenging task, requiring various resources,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Yajie Miao , Mohammad Gowayyed , Florian Metze

Although end-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E ASR) has achieved great performance in tasks that have numerous paired data, it is still challenging to make E2E ASR robust against noisy and low-resource conditions. In this study, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Emiru Tsunoo , Kentaro Shibata , Chaitanya Narisetty , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Shinji Watanabe

In the last decade of automatic speech recognition (ASR) research, the introduction of deep learning brought considerable reductions in word error rate of more than 50% relative, compared to modeling without deep learning. In the wake of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Rohit Prabhavalkar , Takaaki Hori , Tara N. Sainath , Ralf Schlüter , Shinji Watanabe

Recent dynamic tokenisation methods operate directly on bytes and pool their latent representations into patches. This bears similarities to computational models of word segmentation that determine lexical boundaries using spikes in an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zébulon Goriely , Suchir Salhan , Pietro Lesci , Julius Cheng , Paula Buttery

How to leverage dynamic contextual information in end-to-end speech recognition has remained an active research area. Previous solutions to this problem were either designed for specialized use cases that did not generalize well to…

With the advancement of Self-supervised Learning (SSL) in speech-related tasks, there has been growing interest in utilizing discrete tokens generated by SSL for automatic speech recognition (ASR), as they offer faster processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Mingyu Cui , Daxin Tan , Yifan Yang , Dingdong Wang , Huimeng Wang , Xiao Chen , Xie Chen , Xunying Liu

Personalization of automatic speech recognition (ASR) models is a widely studied topic because of its many practical applications. Most recently, attention-based contextual biasing techniques are used to improve the recognition of rare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi , Devang Kulshreshtha , Saket Dingliwal , Srikanth Ronanki , Sravan Bodapati

It is difficult for an E2E ASR system to recognize words such as entities appearing infrequently in the training data. A widely used method to mitigate this issue is feeding contextual information into the acoustic model. Previous works…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Zhanheng Yang , Sining Sun , Xiong Wang , Yike Zhang , Long Ma , Lei Xie

We develop a large language model (LLM) based automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that can be contextualized by providing keywords as prior information in text prompts. We adopt decoder-only architecture and use our in-house LLM,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Kento Nozawa , Takashi Masuko , Toru Taniguchi

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

Recognition of uncommon words such as names and technical terminology is important to understanding conversations in context. However, the ability to recognise such words remains a challenge in modern automatic speech recognition (ASR)…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Namkyu Jung , Geonmin Kim , Joon Son Chung

Acoustic-to-word (A2W) end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have attracted attention because of an extremely simplified architecture and fast decoding. To alleviate data sparseness issues due to infrequent words, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Hirofumi Inaguma , Masato Mimura , Shinsuke Sakai , Tatsuya Kawahara

Multilingual end-to-end(E2E) models have shown a great potential in the expansion of the language coverage in the realm of automatic speech recognition(ASR). In this paper, we aim to enhance the multilingual ASR performance in two ways,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Rimita Lahiri , Kenichi Kumatani , Eric Sun , Yao Qian

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems directly map acoustics to words using a unified model. Previous works mostly focus on E2E training a single model which integrates acoustic and language model into a whole.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Zhehuai Chen , Qi Liu , Hao Li , Kai Yu