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A crucial part of an accurate and reliable spoken language assessment system is the underlying ASR model. Recently, large-scale pre-trained ASR foundation models such as Whisper have been made available. As the output of these models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Rao Ma , Mengjie Qian , Mark J. F. Gales , Kate M. Knill

Pre-trained transformer-based models have significantly advanced automatic speech recognition (ASR), yet they remain sensitive to accent and dialectal variations, resulting in elevated word error rates (WER) in linguistically diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Mohammad Hossein Sameti , Sepehr Harfi Moridani , Ali Zarean , Hossein Sameti

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of Urdu Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models. We analyze the performance of three ASR model families: Whisper, MMS, and Seamless-M4T using Word Error Rate (WER), along with a detailed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Samee Arif , Sualeha Farid , Aamina Jamal Khan , Mustafa Abbas , Agha Ali Raza , Awais Athar

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

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

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for African languages remains constrained by limited labeled data and the lack of systematic guidance on model selection, data scaling, and decoding strategies. Large pre-trained systems such as Whisper,…

In this paper, we investigate the transferability of pre-trained language models to low-resource Indonesian local languages through the task of sentiment analysis. We evaluate both zero-shot performance and adapter-based transfer on ten…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Rifki Afina Putri

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been an essential component of computer assisted language learning (CALL) and computer assisted language testing (CALT) for many years. As this technology continues to develop rapidly, it is important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Michael McGuire

In this paper, we present a bias and sustainability focused investigation of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, namely Whisper and Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS), which have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performances.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ajinkya Kulkarni , Atharva Kulkarni , Miguel Couceiro , Isabel Trancoso

Recent advancements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, exemplified by Whisper, have demonstrated the potential of these systems to approach human-level performance given sufficient data. However, this progress doesn't readily…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Ahmed Adel Attia , Jing Liu , Wei Ai , Dorottya Demszky , Carol Espy-Wilson

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance has improved drastically in recent years, mainly enabled by self-supervised learning (SSL) based acoustic models such as wav2vec2 and large-scale multi-lingual training like Whisper. A huge…

Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) aims to recognize and transcribe speech from multiple languages within a single system. Whisper, one of the most advanced ASR models, excels in this domain by handling 99 languages…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Shao-Syuan Huang , Kuan-Po Huang , Andy T. Liu , Hung-yi Lee

Whisper is a multitask and multilingual speech model covering 99 languages. It yields commendable automatic speech recognition (ASR) results in a subset of its covered languages, but the model still underperforms on a non-negligible number…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Thomas Palmeira Ferraz , Marcely Zanon Boito , Caroline Brun , Vassilina Nikoulina

This study explores fine-tuning multilingual ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) models, specifically OpenAI's Whisper-Tiny, to improve performance in Japanese. While multilingual models like Whisper offer versatility, they often lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Mark Bajo , Haruka Fukukawa , Ryuji Morita , Yuma Ogasawara

This paper provides an overall introduction of our Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for Southeast Asian languages. As not much existing work has been carried out on such regional languages, a few difficulties should be addressed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Lei Wang , Rong Tong , Cheung Chi Leung , Sunil Sivadas , Chongjia Ni , Bin Ma

Current automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are designed to be used across many languages and tasks without substantial changes. However, this broad language coverage hides performance gaps within languages, for example, across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Giuseppe Attanasio , Beatrice Savoldi , Dennis Fucci , Dirk Hovy

The practical aspects of developing an Automatic Speech Recognition System (ASR) with HTK are reviewed. Steps are explained concerning hardware, software, libraries, applications and computer programs used. The common procedure to rapidly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-07 Zulkarnaen Hatala

In this paper we address the challenge of improving Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for a low-resource language, Hawaiian, by incorporating large amounts of independent text data into an ASR foundation model, Whisper. To do this, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Kaavya Chaparala , Guido Zarrella , Bruce Torres Fischer , Larry Kimura , Oiwi Parker Jones

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is increasingly used to document clinical encounters, yet its reliability in multilingual and demographically diverse Indian healthcare contexts remains largely unknown. In this study, we conduct the first…

Whisper, the recently developed multilingual weakly supervised model, is reported to perform well on multiple speech recognition benchmarks in both monolingual and multilingual settings. However, it is not clear how Whisper would fare under…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Bashar Talafha , Abdul Waheed , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed