English
Related papers

Related papers: Language Complexity and Speech Recognition Accurac…

200 papers

This paper presents a systematic evaluation of racial bias in four major commercial automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems using the Pacific Northwest English (PNWE) corpus. We analyze transcription accuracy across speakers from four…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Michael Scott , Siyu Liang , Alicia Wassink , Gina-Anne Levow

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) can play a crucial role in enhancing the accessibility of spoken languages worldwide. In this paper, we build a set of ASR tools for Amharic, a language spoken by more than 50 million people primarily in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Samuael Adnew , Paul Pu Liang

Whisper's robust performance in automatic speech recognition (ASR) is often attributed to its massive 680k-hour training set, an impractical scale for most researchers. In this work, we examine how linguistic and acoustic diversity in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Dancheng Liu , Amir Nassereldine , Chenhui Xu , Jinjun Xiong

Humans are capable of processing speech by making use of multiple sensory modalities. For example, the environment where a conversation takes place generally provides semantic and/or acoustic context that helps us to resolve ambiguities or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Ozan Caglayan , Ramon Sanabria , Shruti Palaskar , Loïc Barrault , Florian Metze

Speech recognition systems have made tremendous progress since the last few decades. They have developed significantly in identifying the speech of the speaker. However, there is a scope of improvement in speech recognition systems in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Pierre Berjon , Avishek Nag , Soumyabrata Dev

Stuttering -- characterized by involuntary disfluencies such as blocks, prolongations, and repetitions -- is often misinterpreted by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, resulting in elevated word error rates and making voice-driven…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Dena Mujtaba , Nihar Mahapatra

Despite recent advancements in deep learning technologies, Child Speech Recognition remains a challenging task. Current Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models require substantial amounts of annotated data for training, which is scarce.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Rishabh Jain , Andrei Barcovschi , Mariam Yiwere , Dan Bigioi , Peter Corcoran , Horia Cucu

Environmental noises and reverberation have a detrimental effect on the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Multi-condition training of neural network-based acoustic models is used to deal with this problem, but it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Desh Raj , Jesus Villalba , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has reached impressive accuracy for high-resource languages, yet its utility in linguistic fieldwork remains limited. Recordings collected in fieldwork contexts present unique challenges, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Siyu Liang , Gina-Anne Levow

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) plays a crucial role in digitizing historical and multilingual documents, yet OCR errors - imperfect extraction of text, including character insertion, deletion, and substitution can significantly impact…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Bhawna Piryani , Jamshid Mozafari , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Antoine Doucet , Adam Jatowt

Speech enhancement methods are commonly believed to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) in noisy environments. However, the effectiveness of these techniques cannot be taken for granted in the case of modern…

Foundation ASR models often support many languages, e.g. 100 languages in Whisper. However, there has been limited work on integrating an additional, typically low-resource, language, while maintaining performance on the original language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Mengjie Qian , Siyuan Tang , Rao Ma , Kate M. Knill , Mark J. F. Gales

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are designed to transcribe spoken language into written text and find utility in a variety of applications including voice assistants and transcription services. However, it has been observed that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Anand Kumar Rai , Siddharth D Jaiswal , Animesh Mukherjee

Automatic classification of disordered speech can provide an objective tool for identifying the presence and severity of speech impairment. Classification approaches can also help identify hard-to-recognize speech samples to teach ASR…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-09 Subhashini Venugopalan , Joel Shor , Manoj Plakal , Jimmy Tobin , Katrin Tomanek , Jordan R. Green , Michael P. Brenner

This article concerns comparative studies on the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model incorporated with the Large Language Model (LLM) used for medical interviews. The proposed solution is tested on polish language benchmarks and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Marcin Pietroń , Szymon Piórkowski , Kamil Faber , Dominik Żurek , Michał Karwatowski , Jerzy Duda , Hubert Zieliński , Piotr Lipnicki , Mikołaj Leszczuk

Although Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have become an integral part of modern technology, their evaluation remains challenging, particularly for low-resource languages such as Persian. This paper introduces Persian Speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Nima Sedghiyeh , Sara Sadeghi , Reza Khodadadi , Farzin Kashani , Omid Aghdaei , Somayeh Rahimi , Mohammad Sadegh Safari

New-age conversational agent systems perform both speech emotion recognition (SER) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) using two separate and often independent approaches for real-world application in noisy environments. In this paper,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-29 Lokesh Bansal , S. Pavankumar Dubagunta , Malolan Chetlur , Pushpak Jagtap , Aravind Ganapathiraju

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) models trained on large amounts of audio data are now widely used to convert speech to written text in a variety of applications from video captioning to automated assistants used in healthcare and other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Changye Li , Trevor Cohen , Serguei Pakhomov

Speech impairments resulting from congenital disorders, such as cerebral palsy, down syndrome, or apert syndrome, as well as acquired brain injuries due to stroke, traumatic accidents, or tumors, present major challenges to automatic speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Niclas Pokel , Pehuén Moure , Roman Boehringer , Shih-Chii Liu , Yingqiang Gao

Navigating the challenges of data-driven speech processing, one of the primary hurdles is accessing reliable pathological speech data. While public datasets appear to offer solutions, they come with inherent risks of potential unintended…