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Speech applications dealing with conversations require not only recognizing the spoken words, but also determining who spoke when. The task of assigning words to speakers is typically addressed by merging the outputs of two separate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Laurent El Shafey , Hagen Soltau , Izhak Shafran

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

Speaker clustering is an essential step in conventional speaker diarization systems and is typically addressed as an audio-only speech processing task. The language used by the participants in a conversation, however, carries additional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Nikolaos Flemotomos , Shrikanth Narayanan

High quality transcription data is crucial for training automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. However, the existing industry-level data collection pipelines are expensive to researchers, while the quality of crowdsourced transcription…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Jian Gao , Hanbo Sun , Cheng Cao , Zheng Du

Speaker diarization provides the answer to the question "who spoke when?" for an audio file. This information can be used to complete audio transcripts for further processing steps. Most speaker diarization systems assume that the audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Roman Aperdannier , Sigurd Schacht , Alexander Piazza

The DIarization and Speech Processing for LAnguage understanding in Conversational Environments - Medical (DISPLACE-M) challenge introduces a conversational AI benchmark for understanding goal-oriented, real-world medical dialogues. The…

Automated clinical text anonymization has the potential to unlock the widespread sharing of textual health data for secondary usage while assuring patient privacy and safety. Despite the proposal of many complex and theoretically successful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 David Pissarra , Isabel Curioso , João Alveira , Duarte Pereira , Bruno Ribeiro , Tomás Souper , Vasco Gomes , André V. Carreiro , Vitor Rolla

Medical conversation summarization is integral in capturing information gathered during interactions between patients and physicians. Summarized conversations are used to facilitate patient hand-offs between physicians, and as part of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Varun Nair , Namit Katariya , Xavier Amatriain , Ilya Valmianski , Anitha Kannan

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for the transcription of speech conversations with natural speaker overlap, from single channel speech recordings. The proposed model is a combination of a speaker diarization system and a hybrid…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Sriram Ganapathy

This paper proposes a medical text summarization method based on LongFormer, aimed at addressing the challenges faced by existing models when processing long medical texts. Traditional summarization methods are often limited by short-term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Dan Sun , Jacky He , Hanlu Zhang , Zhen Qi , Hongye Zheng , Xiaokai Wang

Text summarization is the process of extracting the most important information from the text and presenting it concisely in fewer sentences. Call transcript is a text that involves textual description of a phone conversation between a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Pratik K. Biswas , Aleksandr Iakubovich

In hours-long meeting scenarios, real-time speech stream often struggles with achieving accurate speaker diarization, commonly leading to speaker identification and speaker count errors. To address this challenge, we propose SCDiar, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 Naijun Zheng , Xucheng Wan , Kai Liu , Zhou Huan

In recent years, the trend of deploying digital systems in numerous industries has hiked. The health sector has observed an extensive adoption of digital systems and services that generate significant medical records. Electronic health…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Neel Kanwal , Giuseppe Rizzo

Automatic speech recognition for French medical conversations remains challenging, with word error rates often exceeding 30% in spontaneous clinical speech. This study proposes a multi-pass LLM post-processing architecture alternating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ambre Marie , Thomas Bertin , Guillaume Dardenne , Gwenolé Quellec

For many low-resource or endangered languages, spoken language resources are more likely to be annotated with translations than with transcriptions. Recent work exploits such annotations to produce speech-to-translation alignments, without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Antonios Anastasopoulos , David Chiang

We present a system that uses a learned autocompletion mechanism to facilitate rapid creation of semi-structured clinical documentation. We dynamically suggest relevant clinical concepts as a doctor drafts a note by leveraging features from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Divya Gopinath , Monica Agrawal , Luke Murray , Steven Horng , David Karger , David Sontag

Speaker attribution from speech transcripts is the task of identifying a speaker from the transcript of their speech based on patterns in their language use. This task is especially useful when the audio is unavailable (e.g. deleted) or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Cristina Aggazzotti , Matthew Wiesner , Elizabeth Allyn Smith , Nicholas Andrews

Text summarization is the process of condensing a piece of text to fewer sentences, while still preserving its content. Chat transcript, in this context, is a textual copy of a digital or online conversation between a customer (caller) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Pratik K. Biswas

Medical conversations between patients and medical professionals have implicit functional sections, such as "history taking", "summarization", "education", and "care plan." In this work, we are interested in learning to automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Mengqian Wang , Ilya Valmianski , Xavier Amatriain , Anitha Kannan

Analyzing vast textual data and summarizing key information from electronic health records imposes a substantial burden on how clinicians allocate their time. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in natural language…