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In this work, we showcase a cost-effective method for generating training data for speech processing tasks. First, we transcribe unlabeled speech using a state-of-the-art Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model. Next, we align generated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Taras Sereda

Recently, multilingual artificial intelligence assistants, exemplified by ChatGPT, have gained immense popularity. As a crucial gateway to human-computer interaction, multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) has also garnered…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Song Li , Yongbin You , Xuezhi Wang , Zhengkun Tian , Ke Ding , Guanglu Wan

Accented automatic speech recognition (ASR) often degrades due to the limited availability of accented training data. Prior work has explored accent modeling in low-resource settings, but existing approaches typically require minutes to…

Training speech recognizers with unpaired speech and text -- known as unsupervised speech recognition (UASR) -- is a crucial step toward extending ASR to low-resource languages in the long-tail distribution and enabling multimodal learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Liming Wang , Junrui Ni , Kai-Wei Chang , Saurabhchand Bhati , David Harwath , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , James R. Glass

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been widely researched with supervised approaches, while many low-resourced languages lack audio-text aligned data, and supervised methods cannot be applied on them. In this work, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Yi-Chen Chen , Chia-Hao Shen , Sung-Feng Huang , Hung-yi Lee

There is growing interest in ASR systems that can recognize phones in a language-independent fashion. There is additionally interest in building language technologies for low-resource and endangered languages. However, there is a paucity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-05 David R. Mortensen , Jordan Picone , Xinjian Li , Kathleen Siminyu

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

Form about four decades human beings have been dreaming of an intelligent machine which can master the natural speech. In its simplest form, this machine should consist of two subsystems, namely automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Urmila Shrawankar , V. M. Thakare

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

Multilingual Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) systems allow for the joint training of data-rich and data-scarce languages in a single model. This enables data and parameter sharing across languages, which is especially beneficial for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Arindrima Datta , Bhuvana Ramabhadran , Jesse Emond , Anjuli Kannan , Brian Roark

High quality Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a prerequisite for speech-based applications and research. While state-of-the-art ASR software is freely available, the language dependent acoustic models are lacking for languages other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Benjamin Milde , Arne Köhn

An effective approach to the development of ASR systems for low-resource languages is to fine-tune an existing multilingual end-to-end model. When the original model has been trained on large quantities of data from many languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Ondřej Klejch , William Lamb , Peter Bell

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are of vital importance nowadays in commonplace tasks such as speech-to-text processing and language translation. This created the need for an ASR system that can operate in realistic crowded…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Sherif Abdulatif , Karim Armanious , Karim Guirguis , Jayasankar T. Sajeev , Bin Yang

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have dramatically improved over the last few years. ASR systems are most often trained from 'typical' speech, which means that underrepresented groups don't experience the same level of…

Many automatic speech recognition (ASR) data sets include a single pre-defined test set consisting of one or more speakers whose speech never appears in the training set. This "hold-speaker(s)-out" data partitioning strategy, however, may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Zoey Liu , Justin Spence , Emily Prud'hommeaux

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

We propose a novel transcription workflow which combines spoken term detection and human-in-the-loop, together with a pilot experiment. This work is grounded in an almost zero-resource scenario where only a few terms have so far been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Éric Le Ferrand , Steven Bird , Laurent Besacier

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is crucial for human-machine interaction in diverse applications like conversational agents, industrial robotics, call center automation, and automated subtitling. However, developing high-performance ASR…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Mahmoud Salhab , Marwan Elghitany , Shameed Sait , Syed Sibghat Ullah , Mohammad Abusheikh , Hasan Abusheikh

Recently, there is increasing interest in multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) where a speech recognition system caters to multiple low resource languages by taking advantage of low amounts of labeled corpora in multiple…

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for dysarthric speech remains challenging due to data scarcity, particularly in non-English languages. To address this, we fine-tune a voice conversion model on English dysarthric speech (UASpeech) to…