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The goal of multilingual speech technology is to facilitate seamless communication between individuals speaking different languages, creating the experience as though everyone were a multilingual speaker. To create this experience, speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Supriti Sinhamahapatra , Thai-Binh Nguyen , Yiğit Oğuz , Enes Ugan , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

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

This work presents an extensive and detailed study on Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) for five widely spoken languages: Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic, and French. We have collected large-scale datasets for each language except…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Sanath Narayan , Yasser Abdelaziz Dahou Djilali , Ankit Singh , Eustache Le Bihan , Hakim Hacid

Training a conventional automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to support multiple languages is challenging because the sub-word unit, lexicon and word inventories are typically language specific. In contrast, sequence-to-sequence models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-16 Shubham Toshniwal , Tara N. Sainath , Ron J. Weiss , Bo Li , Pedro Moreno , Eugene Weinstein , Kanishka Rao

Spontaneous or conversational multilingual speech presents many challenges for state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. In this work, we present a new technique AMPS that augments a multilingual multimodal ASR system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Abhishek Gupta , Amruta Parulekar , Sameep Chattopadhyay , Preethi Jyothi

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) is crucial for many real-world applications, but it requires dedicated modeling techniques. Existing approaches can be divided into modular and end-to-end methods. Modular approaches separate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Simon Berger , Peter Vieting , Christoph Boeddeker , Ralf Schlüter , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a key area in computational linguistics, focusing on developing technologies that enable computers to convert spoken language into text. This field combines linguistics and machine learning. ASR models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Anish Saha , A. G. Ramakrishnan

State-of-the-art large-scale universal speech models (USMs) show a decent automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance across multiple domains and languages. However, it remains a challenge for these models to recognize overlapped speech,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Chenda Li , Yao Qian , Zhuo Chen , Naoyuki Kanda , Dongmei Wang , Takuya Yoshioka , Yanmin Qian , Michael Zeng

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has benefited from advances in pretrained speech and language models, yet most systems remain constrained to monolingual settings and short, isolated utterances. While recent efforts in context-aware ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuchen Zhang , Haralambos Mouratidis , Ravi Shekhar

We present an end-to-end multichannel speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (MC-SA-ASR) system that combines a Conformer-based encoder with multi-frame crosschannel attention and a speaker-attributed Transformer-based decoder. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Can Cui , Imran Ahamad Sheikh , Mostafa Sadeghi , Emmanuel Vincent

In this paper, we propose a novel multi-modal multi-task encoder-decoder pre-training framework (MMSpeech) for Mandarin automatic speech recognition (ASR), which employs both unlabeled speech and text data. The main difficulty in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Xiaohuan Zhou , Jiaming Wang , Zeyu Cui , Shiliang Zhang , Zhijie Yan , Jingren Zhou , Chang Zhou

In the rapidly evolving landscape of medical documentation, transcribing clinical dialogues accurately is increasingly paramount. This study explores the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance the accuracy of Automatic Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ayo Adedeji , Sarita Joshi , Brendan Doohan

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) offers significant potential to reduce the workload of medical personnel, for example, through the automation of documentation tasks. While numerous benchmarks exist for the English language, specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Thomas Schuster , Julius Trögele , Nico Döring , Robin Krüger , Matthieu Hoffmann , Holger Friedrich

We introduce the Universal Speech Model (USM), a single large model that performs automatic speech recognition (ASR) across 100+ languages. This is achieved by pre-training the encoder of the model on a large unlabeled multilingual dataset…

Research on multilingual speech recognition remains attractive yet challenging. Recent studies focus on learning shared structures under the multi-task paradigm, in particular a feature sharing structure. This approach has been found…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Zhiyuan Tang , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) aims to transcribe conversational speech involving multiple speakers, requiring the model to capture not only what was said, but also who said it and sometimes when it was spoken. Recent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Li Li , Ming Cheng , Weixin Zhu , Yannan Wang , Juan Liu , Ming Li

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Voice Recognition agents are rapidly evolving healthcare by enabling efficient, accessible, and professional patient support while automating grunt work. This report serves as my self project wherein…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Kabir Kumar

Sequence-to-sequence attention-based models integrate an acoustic, pronunciation and language model into a single neural network, which make them very suitable for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this paper, we are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-15 Shiyu Zhou , Shuang Xu , Bo Xu

Under noisy conditions, automatic speech recognition (ASR) can greatly benefit from the addition of visual signals coming from a video of the speaker's face. However, when multiple candidate speakers are visible this traditionally requires…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Otavio Braga , Olivier Siohan

Modern multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems like Whisper have made it possible to transcribe audio in multiple languages with a single model. However, current state-of-the-art ASR models are typically evaluated on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Luca Della Libera , Pooneh Mousavi , Salah Zaiem , Cem Subakan , Mirco Ravanelli