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
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
Revisiting Acoustic Features for Robust ASR
Muhammad A. Shah, Bhiksha Raj
Bridging Speech and Text: Enhancing ASR with Pinyin-to-Character Pre-training in LLMs
Yang Yuhang, Peng Yizhou, Eng Siong Chng, Xionghu Zhong
Boosting Code-Switching ASR with Mixture of Experts Enhanced Speech-Conditioned LLM
Fengrun Zhang, Wang Geng, Hukai Huang, Yahui Shan, Cheng Yi, He Qu
LM-assisted keyword biasing with Aho-Corasick algorithm for Transducer-based ASR
Iuliia Thorbecke, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Andres Carofilis, Shashi Kumar, Petr Motlicek, Karthik Pandia, Aravind Ganapathiraju
Fast Streaming Transducer ASR Prototyping via Knowledge Distillation with Whisper
Iuliia Thorbecke, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Shashi Kumar, Pradeep Rangappa, Sergio Burdisso, Petr Motlicek, Karthik Pandia, Aravind Ganapathiraju
META-CAT: Speaker-Informed Speech Embeddings via Meta Information Concatenation for Multi-talker ASR
Jinhan Wang, Weiqing Wang, Kunal Dhawan, Taejin Park, Myungjong Kim, Ivan Medennikov, He Huang, Nithin Koluguri, Jagadeesh Balam, Boris Ginsburg
ASR Benchmarking: Need for a More Representative Conversational Dataset
Gaurav Maheshwari, Dmitry Ivanov, Théo Johannet, Kevin El Haddad
Zero Shot Text to Speech Augmentation for Automatic Speech Recognition on Low-Resource Accented Speech Corpora
Francesco Nespoli, Daniel Barreda, Patrick A. Naylor
Speech Recognition for Analysis of Police Radio Communication
Tejes Srivastava, Ju-Chieh Chou, Priyank Shroff, Karen Livescu, Christopher Graziul