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
Automatic Screening for Children with Speech Disorder using Automatic Speech Recognition: Opportunities and Challenges
Dancheng Liu, Jason Yang, Ishan Albrecht-Buehler, Helen Qin, Sophie Li, Yuting Hu, Amir Nassereldine, Jinjun Xiong
CR-CTC: Consistency regularization on CTC for improved speech recognition
Zengwei Yao, Wei Kang, Xiaoyu Yang, Fangjun Kuang, Liyong Guo, Han Zhu, Zengrui Jin, Zhaoqing Li, Long Lin, Daniel Povey
Convolutional Variational Autoencoders for Spectrogram Compression in Automatic Speech Recognition
Olga Yakovenko, Ivan Bondarenko
Algorithms For Automatic Accentuation And Transcription Of Russian Texts In Speech Recognition Systems
Olga Iakovenko, Ivan Bondarenko, Mariya Borovikova, Daniil Vodolazsky
Boosting Hybrid Autoregressive Transducer-based ASR with Internal Acoustic Model Training and Dual Blank Thresholding
Takafumi Moriya, Takanori Ashihara, Masato Mimura, Hiroshi Sato, Kohei Matsuura, Ryo Masumura, Taichi Asami
Mamba for Streaming ASR Combined with Unimodal Aggregation
Ying Fang, Xiaofei Li
AfriHuBERT: A self-supervised speech representation model for African languages
Jesujoba O. Alabi, Xuechen Liu, Dietrich Klakow, Junichi Yamagishi
Predictive Speech Recognition and End-of-Utterance Detection Towards Spoken Dialog Systems
Oswald Zink, Yosuke Higuchi, Carlos Mullov, Alexander Waibel, Tetsunori Kobayashi
HDMoLE: Mixture of LoRA Experts with Hierarchical Routing and Dynamic Thresholds for Fine-Tuning LLM-based ASR Models
Bingshen Mu, Kun Wei, Qijie Shao, Yong Xu, Lei Xie
Internalizing ASR with Implicit Chain of Thought for Efficient Speech-to-Speech Conversational LLM
Robin Shing-Hei Yuen, Timothy Tin-Long Tse, Jian Zhu
How to Connect Speech Foundation Models and Large Language Models? What Matters and What Does Not
Francesco Verdini, Pierfrancesco Melucci, Stefano Perna, Francesco Cariaggi, Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Szymon Mazurek, Marek Kasztelnik, Luisa Bentivogli, Sébastien Bratières, Paolo Merialdo, Simone Scardapane