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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies have been significantly advanced in the past few decades. However, recognition of overlapped speech remains a highly challenging task to date. To this end, multi-channel microphone array data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Jianwei Yu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Bo Wu , Shansong Liu , Shoukang Hu , Mengzhe Geng , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng , Dong Yu

At the present time, computers are employed to solve complex tasks and problems ranging from simple calculations to intensive digital image processing and intricate algorithmic optimization problems to computationally-demanding weather…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-03-26 Youssef Bassil , Paul Semaan

Most current speech technology systems are designed to operate well even in the presence of multiple active speakers. However, most solutions assume that the number of co-current speakers is known. Unfortunately, this information might not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Midia Yousefi , John H. L. Hansen

Lip reading is used to understand or interpret speech without hearing it, a technique especially mastered by people with hearing difficulties. The ability to lip read enables a person with a hearing impairment to communicate with others and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Ahmad B. A. Hassanat

In this paper, we address the problem of enhancing the speech of a speaker of interest in a cocktail party scenario when visual information of the speaker of interest is available. Contrary to most previous studies, we do not learn visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Giovanni Morrone , Luca Pasa , Vadim Tikhanoff , Sonia Bergamaschi , Luciano Fadiga , Leonardo Badino

The image-based multimodal automatic speech recognition (ASR) model enhances speech recognition performance by incorporating audio-related image. However, some works suggest that introducing image information to model does not help…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jiliang Hu , Zuchao Li , Ping Wang , Haojun Ai , Lefei Zhang , Hai Zhao

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) leverages audio and visual modalities to improve robustness in noisy environments. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) show strong performance in speech recognition, including AVSR.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Umberto Cappellazzo , Minsu Kim , Stavros Petridis

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

Different studies have shown the importance of visual cues throughout the speech perception process. In fact, the development of audiovisual approaches has led to advances in the field of speech technologies. However, although noticeable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 David Gimeno-Gómez , Carlos-D. Martínez-Hinarejos

Visual context has been shown to be useful for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems when the speech signal is noisy or corrupted. Previous work, however, has only demonstrated the utility of visual context in an unrealistic setting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Tejas Srinivasan , Ramon Sanabria , Florian Metze , Desmond Elliott

Individuals with hearing impairments face challenges in their ability to comprehend speech, particularly in noisy environments. The aim of this study is to explore the effectiveness of audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) in enhancing the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Richard Lee Lai , Jen-Cheng Hou , I-Chun Chern , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Yi-Ting Chen , Mandar Gogate , Tughrul Arslan , Amir Hussain , Yu Tsao

End-to-end automatic speech recognition systems represent the state of the art, but they rely on thousands of hours of manually annotated speech for training, as well as heavyweight computation for inference. Of course, this impedes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Raphael Tang , Karun Kumar , Gefei Yang , Akshat Pandey , Yajie Mao , Vladislav Belyaev , Madhuri Emmadi , Craig Murray , Ferhan Ture , Jimmy Lin

Although speaker verification has conventionally been an audio-only task, some practical applications provide both audio and visual streams of input. In these cases, the visual stream provides complementary information and can often be…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Leda Sarı , Kritika Singh , Jiatong Zhou , Lorenzo Torresani , Nayan Singhal , Yatharth Saraf

Previous studies have confirmed the effectiveness of incorporating visual information into speech enhancement (SE) systems. Despite improved denoising performance, two problems may be encountered when implementing an audio-visual SE (AVSE)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Shang-Yi Chuang , Yu Tsao , Chen-Chou Lo , Hsin-Min Wang

End-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems based on neural networks have seen large improvements in recent years. The availability of large scale hand-labeled datasets and sufficient computing resources made it possible to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Maxime Burchi , Radu Timofte

Audio-visual active speaker detection (AVASD) is well-developed, and now is an indispensable front-end for several multi-modal applications. However, to the best of our knowledge, the adversarial robustness of AVASD models hasn't been…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xuanjun Chen , Haibin Wu , Helen Meng , Hung-yi Lee , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang

The main motivation for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is efficient interfaces to computers, and for the interfaces to be natural and truly useful, it should provide coverage for a large group of users. The purpose of these tasks is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Urmila Shrawankar , VM Thakare

Speech enhancement plays an essential role in various applications, and the integration of visual information has been demonstrated to bring substantial advantages. However, the majority of current research concentrates on the examination…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xinyuan Qian , Jiaran Gao , Yaodan Zhang , Qiquan Zhang , Hexin Liu , Leibny Paola Garcia , Haizhou Li

High-quality automatic speech recognition (ASR) is essential for virtual assistants (VAs) to work well. However, ASR often performs poorly on VA requests containing named entities. In this work, we start from the observation that many ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Mandana Saebi , Ernest Pusateri , Aaksha Meghawat , Christophe Van Gysel

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has gained remarkable successes thanks to recent advances of deep learning, but it usually degrades significantly under real-world noisy conditions. Recent works introduce speech enhancement (SE) as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Yuchen Hu , Chen Chen , Qiushi Zhu , Eng Siong Chng