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In recent years, large language models (LLM) have made significant progress in the task of generation error correction (GER) for automatic speech recognition (ASR) post-processing. However, in complex noisy environments, they still face…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yanyan Liu , Minqiang Xu , Yihao Chen , Liang He , Lei Fang , Sian Fang , Lin Liu

Many of the current state-of-the-art Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Systems (LVCSR) are hybrids of neural networks and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). Most of these systems contain separate components that deal with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Dzmitry Bahdanau , Jan Chorowski , Dmitriy Serdyuk , Philemon Brakel , Yoshua Bengio

Recognizing overlapping speech from multiple speakers in conversational scenarios is one of the most challenging problem for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Serialized output training (SOT) is a classic method to address multi-talker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Mohan Shi , Zengrui Jin , Yaoxun Xu , Yong Xu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Kun Wei , Yiwen Shao , Chunlei Zhang , Dong Yu

This paper investigates the impact of word-based RNN language models (RNN-LMs) on the performance of end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR). In our prior work, we have proposed a multi-level LM, in which character-based and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Takaaki Hori , Jaejin Cho , Shinji Watanabe

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

Large language model (LLM) based zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) methods tend to preserve the acoustic environment of the audio prompt, leading to degradation in synthesized speech quality when the audio prompt contains noise. In this paper,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Ye-Xin Lu , Hui-Peng Du , Fei Liu , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

Speech language models (LMs) are promising for high-quality speech synthesis through in-context learning. A typical speech LM takes discrete semantic units as content and a short utterance as prompt, and synthesizes speech which preserves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yifan Peng , Ilia Kulikov , Yilin Yang , Sravya Popuri , Hui Lu , Changhan Wang , Hongyu Gong

Recent works have shown that prompting large language models with audio encodings can unlock speech recognition capabilities. However, existing techniques do not scale efficiently, especially while handling long form streaming audio inputs…

Denoising language models (DLMs) have been proposed as a powerful alternative to traditional language models (LMs) for automatic speech recognition (ASR), motivated by their ability to use bidirectional context and adapt to a specific ASR…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dorian Koch , Albert Zeyer , Nick Rossenbach , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

Large language models (LLMs) have shown superb capability of modeling multimodal signals including audio and text, allowing the model to generate spoken or textual response given a speech input. However, it remains a challenge for the model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Zhihong Lei , Xingyu Na , Mingbin Xu , Ernest Pusateri , Christophe Van Gysel , Yuanyuan Zhang , Shiyi Han , Zhen Huang

Domain-specific speech remains a persistent challenge for automatic speech recognition (ASR), even for state-of-the-art systems like OpenAI's Whisper. We introduce Whisper: Courtside Edition, a novel multi-agent large language model (LLM)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yonathan Ron , Shiri Gilboa , Tammuz Dubnov

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often rely on autoregressive (AR) Transformer decoder architectures, which limit efficient inference parallelization due to their sequential nature. To this end, non-autoregressive (NAR) approaches…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Tianzi Wang , Xurong Xie , Zengrui Jin , Mengzhe Geng , Jiajun Deng , Zhaoqing Li , Shoukang Hu , Shujie Hu , Guinan Li , Mingyu Cui , Helen Meng , Xunying Liu

Audio-Language Models (ALMs) have recently achieved remarkable success in zero-shot audio recognition tasks, which match features of audio waveforms with class-specific text prompt features, inspired by advancements in Vision-Language…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Asif Hanif , Maha Tufail Agro , Mohammad Areeb Qazi , Hanan Aldarmaki

Integrating large language models (LLMs) into automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become a mainstream paradigm in recent years. Although existing LLM-based ASR models demonstrate impressive performance on public benchmarks, their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Yuan Xie , Jiaqi Song , Guang Qiu , Xianliang Wang , Kai Qiao , Junfeng Yuan , Shengqing Liu , Yi Zhang , Bowen Chen , Ming Lei , Jie Gao , Jie Wu

Speech-LLM models have demonstrated great performance in multi-modal and multi-task speech understanding. A typical speech-LLM paradigm is integrating speech modality with a large language model (LLM). While the Whisper encoder was…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Wei Liu , Jiahong Li , Yiwen Shao , Dong Yu

We propose a simple method for automatic speech recognition (ASR) by fine-tuning BERT, which is a language model (LM) trained on large-scale unlabeled text data and can generate rich contextual representations. Our assumption is that given…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Wen-Chin Huang , Chia-Hua Wu , Shang-Bao Luo , Kuan-Yu Chen , Hsin-Min Wang , Tomoki Toda

Previous studies in automated audio captioning have faced difficulties in accurately capturing the complete temporal details of acoustic scenes and events within long audio sequences. This paper presents AudioLog, a large language models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 Jisheng Bai , Han Yin , Mou Wang , Dongyuan Shi , Woon-Seng Gan , Jianfeng Chen , Susanto Rahardja

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong promise for mining Electronic Health Records (EHRs) by reasoning over longitudinal clinical information to capture context-rich patient trajectories. However, leveraging LLMs for structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Arya Hadizadeh Moghaddam , Drew Ross , Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi , Dongjie Wang , Zijun Yao

Longform audio recordings obtained with microphones worn by children-also known as child-centered daylong recordings-have become a standard method for studying children's language experiences and their impact on subsequent language…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Daniil Kocharov , Okko Räsänen

Large language models deliver strong generative performance but at the cost of massive parameter counts, memory use, and decoding latency. Prior work has shown that pruning and structured sparsity can preserve accuracy under substantial…

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