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Conventional automatic speech recognition (ASR) models typically produce outputs as normalized texts lacking punctuation and capitalization, necessitating post-processing models to enhance readability. This approach, however, introduces…

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Speaker adaptation, which involves cloning voices from unseen speakers in the Text-to-Speech task, has garnered significant interest due to its numerous applications in multi-media fields. Despite recent advancements, existing methods often…

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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often falter while processing stuttering-related disfluencies -- such as involuntary blocks and word repetitions -- yielding inaccurate transcripts. A critical barrier to progress is the scarcity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Dena Mujtaba , Nihar R. Mahapatra , Megan Arney , J. Scott Yaruss , Caryn Herring , Jia Bin

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a crucial tool for linguists aiming to perform a variety of language documentation tasks. However, modern ASR systems use data-hungry transformer architectures, rendering them generally unusable for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Massimo Daul , Alessio Tosolini , Claire Bowern

Most text-to-speech (TTS) methods use high-quality speech corpora recorded in a well-designed environment, incurring a high cost for data collection. To solve this problem, existing noise-robust TTS methods are intended to use noisy speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Takaaki Saeki , Kentaro Tachibana , Ryuichi Yamamoto

Trans-dimensional random field language models (TRF LMs) where sentences are modeled as a collection of random fields, have shown close performance with LSTM LMs in speech recognition and are computationally more efficient in inference.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Bin Wang , Zhijian Ou

With the emergence of automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, converting the spoken form text (from ASR) to the written form is in urgent need. This inverse text normalization (ITN) problem attracts the attention of researchers from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Szu-Jui Chen , Debjyoti Paul , Yutong Pang , Peng Su , Xuedong Zhang

End-to-end approaches have drawn much attention recently for significantly simplifying the construction of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. RNN transducer (RNN-T) is one of the popular end-to-end methods. Previous studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Senmao Wang , Pan Zhou , Wei Chen , Jia Jia , Lei Xie

This paper presents an overview and evaluation of some of the end-to-end ASR models on long-form audios. We study three categories of Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) models based on their core architecture: (1) convolutional, (2)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Nithin Rao Koluguri , Samuel Kriman , Georgy Zelenfroind , Somshubra Majumdar , Dima Rekesh , Vahid Noroozi , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems developed in recent years have shown promising results with self-attention models (e.g., Transformer and Conformer), which are replacing conventional recurrent neural networks. Meanwhile, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Koichi Miyazaki , Masato Murata , Tomoki Koriyama

Recent years have witnessed wider adoption of Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) techniques in various domains. Consequently, evaluating and enhancing the quality of ASR systems is of great importance. This paper proposes ASDF, an Automated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Daniel Hao Xian Yuen , Andrew Yong Chen Pang , Zhou Yang , Chun Yong Chong , Mei Kuan Lim , David Lo

Despite rapid advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and large audio-language models, robust recognition in real-world environments remains limited by an "acoustic robustness bottleneck": models often lose acoustic grounding and…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhifei Xie , Kaiyu Pang , Haobin Zhang , Deheng Ye , Xiaobin Hu , Shuicheng Yan , Chunyan Miao

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a capability which enables a program to process human speech into a written form. Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have led to high-accuracy ASR systems based on deep neural networks,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-05 Thomas Bohnstingl , Ayush Garg , Stanisław Woźniak , George Saon , Evangelos Eleftheriou , Angeliki Pantazi

In this paper, we propose an incremental learning method for end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) which enables an ASR system to perform well on new tasks while maintaining the performance on its originally learned ones. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Li Fu , Xiaoxiao Li , Libo Zi , Zhengchen Zhang , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

Autoformalization addresses the scarcity of data for Automated Theorem Proving (ATP) by translating mathematical problems from natural language into formal statements. Efforts in recent work shift from directly prompting large language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Qi Guo , Jianing Wang , Jianfei Zhang , Deyang Kong , Xiangzhou Huang , Xiangyu Xi , Wei Wang , Jingang Wang , Xunliang Cai , Shikun Zhang , Wei Ye

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a relevant area in multiple settings because it provides a natural communication mechanism between applications and users. ASRs often fail in environments that use language specific to particular…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Rafael Viana-Cámara , Mario Campos-Soberanis , Diego Campos-Sobrino

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models have seen revolutionary quality gains with the recent development of large-scale universal speech models (USM). However, deploying these massive USMs is extremely expensive due to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Shaojin Ding , David Qiu , David Rim , Yanzhang He , Oleg Rybakov , Bo Li , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Weiran Wang , Tara N. Sainath , Zhonglin Han , Jian Li , Amir Yazdanbakhsh , Shivani Agrawal

Although neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved impressive progress recently, it is usually trained on the clean parallel data set and hence cannot work well when the input sentence is the production of the automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Xiang Li , Haiyang Xue , Wei Chen , Yang Liu , Yang Feng , Qun Liu

End-to-end approaches for automatic speech recognition (ASR) benefit from directly modeling the probability of the word sequence given the input audio stream in a single neural network. However, compared to conventional ASR systems, these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Ankur Gandhe , Ariya Rastrow

Text normalization (TN) and inverse text normalization (ITN) are essential preprocessing and postprocessing steps for text-to-speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition, respectively. Many methods have been proposed for either TN or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Tuan Manh Lai , Yang Zhang , Evelina Bakhturina , Boris Ginsburg , Heng Ji