Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) aims to accurately transcribe spoken language into text, driving research into robust and efficient models. Current efforts focus on improving accuracy and robustness through techniques like consistency regularization in Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC), leveraging pre-trained multilingual models for low-resource languages, and integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) for enhanced contextual understanding and improved handling of diverse accents and speech disorders. These advancements have significant implications for accessibility, enabling applications in diverse fields such as healthcare, education, and human-computer interaction.
Papers
Noise Masking Attacks and Defenses for Pretrained Speech Models
Matthew Jagielski, Om Thakkar, Lun Wang
Africa-Centric Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Multilingual Speech Representation in a Sub-Saharan Context
Antoine Caubrière, Elodie Gauthier
Transfer Learning from Whisper for Microscopic Intelligibility Prediction
Paul Best, Santiago Cuervo, Ricard Marxer