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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) aims to convert human speech content into corresponding text. In conversational scenarios, effectively utilizing context can enhance its accuracy. Large Language Models' (LLMs) exceptional long-context…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Bingshen Mu , Hexin Liu , Hongfei Xue , Kun Wei , Lei Xie

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) models rely on high-quality transcribed data for effective training. Generating pseudo-labels for large unlabeled audio datasets often relies on complex pipelines that combine multiple ASR outputs through…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Jeena Prakash , Blessingh Kumar , Kadri Hacioglu , Bidisha Sharma , Sindhuja Gopalan , Malolan Chetlur , Shankar Venkatesan , Andreas Stolcke

While speech large language models (SpeechLLMs) have advanced standard automatic speech recognition (ASR), contextual biasing for named entities and rare words remains challenging, especially at scale. To address this, we propose BR-ASR: a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xun Gong , Anqi Lv , Zhiming Wang , Huijia Zhu , Yanmin Qian

Automatic speech recognition systems have undoubtedly advanced with the integration of multilingual and multitask models such as Whisper, which have shown a promising ability to understand and process speech across a wide range of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Xabier de Zuazo , Eva Navas , Ibon Saratxaga , Inma Hernáez Rioja

Despite extensions to speech inputs, effectively leveraging the rich knowledge and contextual understanding of large language models (LLMs) in automatic speech recognition (ASR) remains non-trivial, as the task primarily involves direct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Keqi Deng , Ruchao Fan , Bo Ren , Yiming Wang , Jinyu Li

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has increased in popularity in recent years. The evolution of processor and storage technologies has enabled more advanced ASR mechanisms, fueling the development of virtual assistants such as Amazon…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Sebastian Baunsgaard , Sebastian B. Wrede , Pınar Tozun

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems remain prone to errors that affect downstream applications. In this paper, we propose LIR-ASR, a heuristic optimized iterative correction framework using LLMs, inspired by human auditory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Yutong Liu , Ziyue Zhang , Cheng Huang , Yongbin Yu , Xiangxiang Wang , Yuqing Cai , Nyima Tashi

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models have achieved remarkable accuracy in general settings, yet their performance often degrades in domain-specific applications due to data mismatch and linguistic variability. This challenge is…

The INTERSPEECH 2025 Challenge on Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Models (MLC-SLM) promotes multilingual conversational ASR with large language models (LLMs). Our previous SHNU-mASR system adopted a competitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuxiang Mei , Dongxing Xu , Jiaen Liang , Yanhua Long

Speech-enabled systems typically first convert audio to text through an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model and then feed the text to downstream natural language processing (NLP) modules. The errors of the ASR system can seriously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Tong Cui , Jinghui Xiao , Liangyou Li , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

Large language model (LLM)-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) achieves strong performance but often incurs high computational costs. This work investigates how to obtain the best LLM-ASR performance efficiently. Through comprehensive…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Bingshen Mu , Yiwen Shao , Kun Wei , Dong Yu , Lei Xie

We develop a large language model (LLM) based automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that can be contextualized by providing keywords as prior information in text prompts. We adopt decoder-only architecture and use our in-house LLM,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Kento Nozawa , Takashi Masuko , Toru Taniguchi

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is critical for language accessibility, yet low-resource Cantonese remains challenging due to limited annotated data, six lexical tones, tone sandhi, and accent variation. Existing ASR models, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Dazhong Chen , Yi-Cheng Lin , Yuchen Huang , Ziwei Gong , Di Jiang , Zeying Xie , Yi R. , Fung

In this paper, we focus on solving one of the most important tasks in the field of speech processing, i.e., automatic speech recognition (ASR), with speech foundation encoders and large language models (LLM). Recent works have complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Ziyang Ma , Guanrou Yang , Yifan Yang , Zhifu Gao , Jiaming Wang , Zhihao Du , Fan Yu , Qian Chen , Siqi Zheng , Shiliang Zhang , Xie Chen

Recent advancements in integrating speech information into large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved automatic speech recognition (ASR) accuracy. However, existing methods often constrained by the capabilities of the speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Shaojun Li , Hengchao Shang , Daimeng Wei , Jiaxin Guo , Zongyao Li , Xianghui He , Min Zhang , Hao Yang

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) integrates acoustic and visual information to enhance robustness in adverse acoustic conditions. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have yielded competitive automatic speech recognition…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Fei Su , Cancan Li , Juan Liu , Wei Ju , Hongbin Suo , Ming Li

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (MS-ASR) faces significant challenges in transcribing overlapped speech, a task critical for applications like meeting transcription and conversational analysis. While serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Yuke Lin , Ming Cheng , Ze Li , Beilong Tang , Ming Li

Language understanding in speech-based systems have attracted much attention in recent years with the growing demand for voice interface applications. However, the robustness of natural language understanding (NLU) systems to errors…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Lingyun Feng , Jianwei Yu , Deng Cai , Songxiang Liu , Haitao Zheng , Yan Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have driven substantial advances in speech language models (SpeechLMs), yielding strong performance in automatic speech recognition (ASR) under high-resource conditions. However, existing benchmarks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jianan Chen , Xiaoxue Gao , Tatsuya Kawahara , Nancy F. Chen

Recent years have witnessed significant progress in multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR), driven by the emergence of end-to-end (E2E) models and the scaling of multilingual datasets. Despite that, two main challenges persist in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Zheshu Song , Jianheng Zhuo , Yifan Yang , Ziyang Ma , Shixiong Zhang , Xie Chen