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This paper presents a novel streaming end-to-end target-speaker speech recognition that addresses two critical limitations in systems: the handling of noisy enrollment utterances and specific enrollment phrase requirements. This paper…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Mohsen Ghane , Mohammad Sadegh Safari

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) aims to transcribe conversational speech involving multiple speakers, requiring the model to capture not only what was said, but also who said it and sometimes when it was spoken. Recent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Li Li , Ming Cheng , Weixin Zhu , Yannan Wang , Juan Liu , Ming Li

Audiovisual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) aims to improve the robustness of a speech recognition system by incorporating visual information. Training fully supervised multimodal models for this task from scratch, however is limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Arsha Nagrani , Cordelia Schmid

Speech recognition and translation systems perform poorly on noisy inputs, which are frequent in realistic environments. Augmenting these systems with visual signals has the potential to improve robustness to noise. However, audio-visual…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-13 HyoJung Han , Mohamed Anwar , Juan Pino , Wei-Ning Hsu , Marine Carpuat , Bowen Shi , Changhan Wang

As human-machine voice interfaces provide easy access to increasingly intelligent machines, many state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are proposed. However, commercial ASR systems usually have poor performance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Yanan Jia

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

Multimodal speech recognition aims to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems by leveraging additional visual information that is usually associated to the audio input. While previous approaches make crucial…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Dan Oneata , Horia Cucu

Recent progress in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has been coupled with a substantial increase in the model sizes, which may now contain billions of parameters, leading to slow inferences even with adapted hardware. In this context,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Hugo Malard , Salah Zaiem , Robin Algayres

We propose a semi-supervised learning method for building end-to-end rich transcription-style automatic speech recognition (RT-ASR) systems from small-scale rich transcription-style and large-scale common transcription-style datasets. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Tomohiro Tanaka , Ryo Masumura , Mana Ihori , Akihiko Takashima , Shota Orihashi , Naoki Makishima

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are used in the financial domain to enhance the caller experience by enabling natural language understanding and facilitating efficient and intuitive interactions. Increasing use of ASR systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Chirag Chhablani , Nikhita Sharma , Jordan Hosier , Vijay K. Gurbani

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

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

Contextual automatic speech recognition (ASR) with Speech-LLMs is typically trained with oracle conversation history, but relies on error-prone history at inference, causing a train-test mismatch in the context channel that we term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xiaoyong Guo , Nanjie Li , Zijie Zeng , Kai Wang , Hao Huang , Haihua Xu , Wei Shi

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

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have been evolving quickly and reaching human parity in certain cases. The systems usually perform pretty well on reading style and clean speech, however, most of the available systems suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Quang Minh Nguyen , Thai Binh Nguyen , Ngoc Phuong Pham , The Loc Nguyen

Deep biasing improves automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance by incorporating contextual phrases. However, most existing methods enhance subwords in a contextual phrase as independent units, potentially compromising contextual…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zhennan Lin , Kaixun Huang , Wei Ren , Linju Yang , Lei Xie

Environmental noises and reverberation have a detrimental effect on the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Multi-condition training of neural network-based acoustic models is used to deal with this problem, but it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Desh Raj , Jesus Villalba , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

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

Most of the prior studies in the spatial \ac{DoA} domain focus on a single modality. However, humans use auditory and visual senses to detect the presence of sound sources. With this motivation, we propose to use neural networks with audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Xinyuan Qian , Maulik Madhavi , Zexu Pan , Jiadong Wang , Haizhou Li

Named Entity Recognition (NER) from speech is among Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) tasks, aiming to extract semantic information from the speech signal. NER from speech is usually made through a two-step pipeline that consists of (1)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Boli Chen , Guangwei Xu , Xiaobin Wang , Pengjun Xie , Meishan Zhang , Fei Huang