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End-to-end speaker diarization enables accurate overlap-aware diarization by jointly estimating multiple speakers' speech activities in parallel. This approach is data-hungry, requiring a large amount of labeled conversational data, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Shota Horiguchi , Atsushi Ando , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

Transcription of legal proceedings is very important to enable access to justice. However, speech transcription is an expensive and slow process. In this paper we describe part of a combined research and industrial project for building an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Hadeel Saadany , Catherine Breslin , Constantin Orăsan , Sophie Walker

Health literacy has emerged as a crucial factor in making appropriate health decisions and ensuring treatment outcomes. However, medical jargon and the complex structure of professional language in this domain make health information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yue Guo , Wei Qiu , Yizhong Wang , Trevor Cohen

The records of a clinical encounter can be extensive and complex, thus placing a premium on tools that can extract and summarize relevant information. This paper introduces the task of generating discharge summaries for a clinical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Han-Chin Shing , Chaitanya Shivade , Nima Pourdamghani , Feng Nan , Philip Resnik , Douglas Oard , Parminder Bhatia

The amount of labeled data to train models for speech tasks is limited for most languages, however, the data scarcity is exacerbated for speech translation which requires labeled data covering two different languages. To address this issue,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Changhan Wang , Hirofumi Inaguma , Peng-Jen Chen , Ilia Kulikov , Yun Tang , Wei-Ning Hsu , Michael Auli , Juan Pino

This paper investigates a method for simulating natural conversation in the model training of end-to-end neural diarization (EEND). Due to the lack of any annotated real conversational dataset, EEND is usually pretrained on a large-scale…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Natsuo Yamashita , Shota Horiguchi , Takeshi Homma

Comprehensive clinical documentation is crucial for effective healthcare delivery, yet it poses a significant burden on healthcare professionals, leading to burnout, increased medical errors, and compromised patient safety. This paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Anjanava Biswas , Wrick Talukdar

Healthcare professionals need effective ways to use, understand, and validate AI-driven clinical decision support systems. Existing systems face two key limitations: complex visualizations and a lack of grounding in scientific evidence. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Reza Samimi , Aditya Bhattacharya , Lucija Gosak , Gregor Stiglic , Katrien Verbert

End-to-end speech translation (ST) for conversation recordings involves several under-explored challenges such as speaker diarization (SD) without accurate word time stamps and handling of overlapping speech in a streaming fashion. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Mu Yang , Naoyuki Kanda , Xiaofei Wang , Junkun Chen , Peidong Wang , Jian Xue , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka

Recent studies on automatic note generation have shown that doctors can save significant amounts of time when using automatic clinical note generation (Knoll et al., 2022). Summarization models have been used for this task to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Asma Ben Abacha , Wen-wai Yim , George Michalopoulos , Thomas Lin

In speech processing pipelines, improving the quality and intelligibility of real-world recordings is crucial. While supervised regression is the primary method for speech enhancement, audio tokenization is emerging as a promising…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Luca Della Libera , Cem Subakan , Mirco Ravanelli

In this paper, we describe novel components for extracting clinically relevant information from medical conversations which will be available as Google APIs. We describe a transformer-based Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T) model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Hagen Soltau , Mingqiu Wang , Izhak Shafran , Laurent El Shafey

AI scribes are transforming clinical documentation at scale. However, their real-world performance remains understudied, especially regarding their impacts on patient safety. To this end, we initiate a mixed-methods study of patient safety…

In this paper, we investigate the impact of incorporating timestamp-based alignment between Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) transcripts and Speaker Diarization (SD) outputs on Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) accuracy. Misalignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Hsuan-Yu Wang , Pei-Ying Lee , Berlin Chen

For d/Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people, captioning is an essential accessibility tool. Significant developments in artificial intelligence (AI) mean that Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is now a part of many popular applications.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Korbinian Kuhn , Verena Kersken , Benedikt Reuter , Niklas Egger , Gottfried Zimmermann

Due to the substantial number of clinicians, patients, and data collection environments involved in clinical trials, gathering data of superior quality poses a significant challenge. In clinical trials, patients are assessed based on their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ali Akram , Marija Stanojevic , Malikeh Ehghaghi , Jekaterina Novikova

Speaker diarization is a task to label an audio or video recording with the identity of the speaker at each given time stamp. In this work, we propose a novel machine learning framework to conduct real-time multi-speaker diarization and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Baihan Lin , Xinxin Zhang

Nowadays, the large amount of audio-visual content available has fostered the need to develop new robust automatic speaker diarization systems to analyse and characterise it. This kind of system helps to reduce the cost of doing this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Victoria Mingote , Alfonso Ortega , Antonio Miguel , Eduardo Lleida

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

Summaries generated from medical conversations can improve recall and understanding of care plans for patients and reduce documentation burden for doctors. Recent advancements in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Benjamin Schloss , Sandeep Konam