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Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo , Srikanth Madikeri , Petr Motlicek

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has the potential to substantially reduce manual annotation effort in child speech research by generating automatic transcriptions. However, obtaining reliably high-quality ASR transcriptions for child…

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Streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) aims to emit each hypothesized word as quickly and accurately as possible. However, emitting fast without degrading quality, as measured by word error rate (WER), is highly challenging. Existing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Jiahui Yu , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Bo Li , Shuo-yiin Chang , Tara N. Sainath , Yanzhang He , Arun Narayanan , Wei Han , Anmol Gulati , Yonghui Wu , Ruoming Pang

The common standard for quality evaluation of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is reference-based metrics such as the Word Error Rate (WER), computed using manual ground-truth transcriptions that are time-consuming and expensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Kamer Ali Yuksel , Thiago Ferreira , Ahmet Gunduz , Mohamed Al-Badrashiny , Golara Javadi

We propose a bottom-up framework for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in syllable-based languages by unifying language-universal articulatory attribute modeling with syllable-level prediction. The system first recognizes sequences or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Hao Yen , Pin-Jui Ku , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Chin-Hui Lee

This paper presents an end-to-end model designed to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) for a particular speaker in a crowded, noisy environment. The model utilizes a single-channel speech enhancement module that isolates the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Thai-Binh Nguyen , Alexander Waibel

In this work, we present SynesLM, an unified model which can perform three multimodal language understanding tasks: audio-visual automatic speech recognition(AV-ASR) and visual-aided speech/machine translation(VST/VMT). Unlike previous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-02 Yichen Lu , Jiaqi Song , Xuankai Chang , Hengwei Bian , Soumi Maiti , Shinji Watanabe

This paper presents the architecture and performance of a novel Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system developed by the Transsion Speech Team for Track 1 of the MLC-SLM 2025 Challenge. The proposed system comprises three key…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Xiaoxiao Li , An Zhu , Youhai Jiang , Fengjie Zhu

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an integral component of modern technology, powering applications such as voice-activated assistants, transcription services, and accessibility tools. Yet ASR systems continue to struggle with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Mohammad Reza Peyghan , Saman Soleimani Roudi , Saeedreza Zouashkiani , Sajjad Amini , Fatemeh Rajabi , Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami

Training a code-switching end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) model normally requires a large amount of data, while code-switching data is often limited. In this paper, three novel approaches are proposed for code-switching data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Chenpeng Du , Hao Li , Yizhou Lu , Lan Wang , Yanmin Qian

In this paper, a multilingual end-to-end framework, called as ATCSpeechNet, is proposed to tackle the issue of translating communication speech into human-readable text in air traffic control (ATC) systems. In the proposed framework, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Yi Lin , Bo Yang , Linchao Li , Dongyue Guo , Jianwei Zhang , Hu Chen , Yi Zhang

Language endangerment poses a major challenge to linguistic diversity worldwide, and technological advances have opened new avenues for documentation and revitalization. Among these, automatic speech recognition (ASR) has shown increasing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chihiro Taguchi , Yukinori Takubo , David Chiang

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 improved performances of the latest Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, transcription errors are still unavoidable. These errors can have a considerable impact in critical domains such as healthcare, when used to help with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Nimshi Venkat Meripo , Sandeep Konam

We live in a world where 60% of the population can speak two or more languages fluently. Members of these communities constantly switch between languages when having a conversation. As automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Siddharth Dalmia , Yuzong Liu , Srikanth Ronanki , Katrin Kirchhoff

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for conversational speech remains challenging due to the limited availability of large-scale, well-annotated multi-speaker dialogue data and the complex temporal dynamics of natural interactions.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Máté Gedeon , Péter Mihajlik

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has advanced with Speech Foundation Models (SFMs), yet performance degrades on dysarthric speech due to variability and limited data. This study as part of the submission to the Speech Accessibility…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Alexandre Ducorroy , Rachid Riad

Building inclusive speech recognition systems is a crucial step towards developing technologies that speakers of all language varieties can use. Therefore, ASR systems must work for everybody independently of the way they speak. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Alëna Aksënova , Zhehuai Chen , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Daan van Esch , Pavel Golik , Wei Han , Levi King , Bhuvana Ramabhadran , Andrew Rosenberg , Suzan Schwartz , Gary Wang

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

Joint modeling of multi-speaker ASR and speaker diarization has recently shown promising results in speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR).Although being able to obtain state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance, most of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yangze Li , Fan Yu , Yuhao Liang , Pengcheng Guo , Mohan Shi , Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Lei Xie