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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

In this article, we present an approach for non native automatic speech recognition (ASR). We propose two methods to adapt existing ASR systems to the non-native accents. The first method is based on the modification of acoustic models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-11-08 Ghazi Bouselmi , Dominique Fohr , Irina Illina , Jean-Paul Haton

Recently, self-supervised pre-training has gained success in automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, considering the difference between speech accents in real scenarios, how to identify accents and use accent features to improve ASR is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-16 Keqi Deng , Songjun Cao , Long Ma

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems' growing use warrants robust auditing approaches to ensure equitable transcription quality, especially for people with speech disorders like aphasia who disproportionately depend on ASR. While…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Katelyn Xiaoying Mei , Anna Seo Gyeong Choi , Hilke Schellmann , Mona Sloane , Allison Koenecke

Unsupervised speech recognition has shown great potential to make Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems accessible to every language. However, existing methods still heavily rely on hand-crafted pre-processing. Similar to the trend of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Alexander H. Liu , Wei-Ning Hsu , Michael Auli , Alexei Baevski

While supervised quality predictors for synthesized speech have demonstrated strong correlations with human ratings, their requirement for in-domain labeled training data hinders their generalization ability to new domains. Unsupervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Erica Cooper , Takuma Okamoto , Yamato Ohtani , Tomoki Toda , Hisashi Kawai

Speech-driven visual speech synthesis involves mapping features extracted from acoustic speech to the corresponding lip animation controls for a face model. This mapping can take many forms, but a powerful approach is to use deep neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-17 Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz , Barry-John Theobald , Justin Binder , Gabriele Fanelli , Paul Dixon , Nicholas Apostoloff , Thibaut Weise , Sachin Kajareker

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) research is driven by the availability of common datasets between industrial researchers and academics, encouraging comparisons and evaluations. LibriSpeech, despite its long success as an ASR benchmark,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Titouan Parcollet , Yuan Tseng , Shucong Zhang , Rogier van Dalen

This paper introduces FunASR, an open-source speech recognition toolkit designed to bridge the gap between academic research and industrial applications. FunASR offers models trained on large-scale industrial corpora and the ability to…

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems frequently use a search-based decoding strategy aiming to find the best attainable transcript by considering multiple candidates. One prominent speech recognition decoding heuristic is beam search,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Tomer Wullach , Shlomo E. Chazan

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…

Large encoder-decoder models like Whisper achieve strong offline transcription but remain impractical for streaming applications due to high latency. However, due to the accessibility of pre-trained checkpoints, the open Thai ASR landscape…

There is increasingly more evidence that automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are biased against different speakers and speaker groups, e.g., due to gender, age, or accent. Research on bias in ASR has so far primarily focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Tanvina Patel , Wiebke Hutiri , Aaron Yi Ding , Odette Scharenborg

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

End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) models have recently demonstrated superior performance over the traditional hybrid ASR models. Training an E2E ASR model requires a large amount of data which is not only expensive but may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Amin Fazel , Wei Yang , Yulan Liu , Roberto Barra-Chicote , Yixiong Meng , Roland Maas , Jasha Droppo

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) techniques have become powerful tools, enhancing efficiency in law enforcement scenarios. To ensure fairness for demographic groups in different acoustic environments, ASR engines must be tested across a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-30 Yicheng Wang , Mark Cusick , Mohamed Laila , Kate Puech , Zhengping Ji , Xia Hu , Michael Wilson , Noah Spitzer-Williams , Bryan Wheeler , Yasser Ibrahim

In this paper, we propose a self-training approach for automatic speech recognition (ASR) for low-resource settings. While self-training approaches have been extensively developed and evaluated for high-resource languages such as English,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Satwinder Singh , Feng Hou , Ruili Wang

The performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems can be significantly compromised by previously unseen conditions, which is typically due to a mismatch between training and testing distributions. In this paper, we address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Wei-Ning Hsu , James Glass

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Gus Lathouwers , Lingyun Gao , Catia Cucchiarini , Helmer Strik

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems exhibit the best performance on speech that is similar to that on which it was trained. As such, underrepresented varieties including regional dialects, minority-speakers, and low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Emma O'Neill , Julie Carson-Berndsen