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Contextual biasing refers to the problem of biasing the automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems towards rare entities that are relevant to the specific user or application scenarios. We propose algorithms for contextual biasing based on…

The attention-based deep contextual biasing method has been demonstrated to effectively improve the recognition performance of end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems on given contextual phrases. However, unlike shallow fusion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Kaixun Huang , Ao Zhang , Binbin Zhang , Tianyi Xu , Xingchen Song , Lei Xie

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

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

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

In this paper, we propose a Guided Attention (GA) auxiliary training loss, which improves the effectiveness and robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR) contextual biasing without introducing additional parameters. A common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Jiyang Tang , Kwangyoun Kim , Suwon Shon , Felix Wu , Prashant Sridhar , Shinji Watanabe

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

For a speech-enhancement algorithm, it is highly desirable to simultaneously improve perceptual quality and recognition rate. Thanks to computational costs and model complexities, it is challenging to train a model that effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Rasool Fakoor , Xiaodong He , Ivan Tashev , Shuayb Zarar

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

Contextual ASR or hotword customization holds substantial practical value. Despite the impressive performance of current end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, they often face challenges in accurately recognizing rare…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Guanrou Yang , Ziyang Ma , Zhifu Gao , Shiliang Zhang , Xie Chen

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

Accurate recognition of rare and new words remains a pressing problem for contextualized Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. Most context-biasing methods involve modification of the ASR model or the beam-search decoding algorithm,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Andrei Andrusenko , Aleksandr Laptev , Vladimir Bataev , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Boris Ginsburg

Word sense induction (WSI) is the task of unsupervised clustering of word usages within a sentence to distinguish senses. Recent work obtain strong results by clustering lexical substitutes derived from pre-trained RNN language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Asaf Amrami , Yoav Goldberg

The performances of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are usually evaluated by the metric word error rate (WER) when the manually transcribed data are provided, which are, however, expensively available in the real scenario. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Kai Fan , Jiayi Wang , Bo Li , Shiliang Zhang , Boxing Chen , Niyu Ge , Zhijie Yan

Contextual knowledge is essential for reducing speech recognition errors on high-valued long-tail words. This paper proposes a novel tree-constrained pointer generator (TCPGen) component that enables end-to-end ASR models to bias towards a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Guangzhi Sun , Chao Zhang , Philip C Woodland

This paper proposes an adaptation method for end-to-end speech recognition. In this method, multiple automatic speech recognition (ASR) 1-best hypotheses are integrated in the computation of the connectionist temporal classification (CTC)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Cong-Thanh Do , Rama Doddipatla , Thomas Hain

Contextualized end-to-end automatic speech recognition has been an active research area, with recent efforts focusing on the implicit learning of contextual phrases based on the final loss objective. However, these approaches ignore the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Muhammad Shakeel , Yui Sudo , Yifan Peng , Shinji Watanabe

This paper investigates the in-context learning abilities of the Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) models released by OpenAI. A novel speech-based in-context learning (SICL) approach is proposed for test-time adaptation, which can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Siyin Wang , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Ji Wu , Chao Zhang

Contextual biasing enables speech recognizers to transcribe important phrases in the speaker's context, such as contact names, even if they are rare in, or absent from, the training data. Attention-based biasing is a leading approach which…

Neural networks provide new possibilities to automatically learn complex language patterns and query-document relations. Neural IR models have achieved promising results in learning query-document relevance patterns, but few explorations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Zhuyun Dai , Jamie Callan