Automatic Speech Recognition

Also known as ASR

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Overview

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) studies how to turn audio into written words, supporting tasks such as transcription, captioning, voice interfaces, and clinical documentation. Systems commonly use self-supervised speech encoders with CTC or transducer decoders, encoder-decoder models, and increasingly speech-language models; adaptation, contextual biasing, and synthetic or unlabeled data help handle specialized vocabulary and underrepresented languages. Work also targets streaming and long-form audio, overlapping speakers, noisy recordings, and audiovisual cues, with evaluation on datasets such as LibriSpeech, Common Voice, and meeting and domain-specific benchmarks. Strong pretrained models coexist with persistent gaps in low-resource and atypical speech, dialect fairness, hallucination control, and real-world robustness, while word error rate alone often misses meaning, usability, and downstream impact.

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  1. Investigation on the Robustness of Acoustic Foundation Models on Post Exercise Speech

    Mar 29, 2026Xiangyuan Xue, Yuyu Wang, Ruijie Yao +3Robust ASRAutomatic Speech Recognition

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA · University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ · Duke University, Durham, NC, USA +1

  2. Beyond Acoustic Prefixes: Persistent Access to Serialized Acoustic Memory for LLM-Based Multi-Talker Speech Recognition

    Mar 28, 2026Hao Shi, Yuan Gao, Xugang Lu +1Multi-Speaker ASRMemory-Augmented Language Models

    Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan · National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

  3. Contextual Earnings-22: A Speech Recognition Benchmark with Custom Vocabulary in the Wild

    Mar 28, 2026Berkin Durmus, Chen Cen, Eduardo Pacheco +2Contextual ASRSpeech Recognition Benchmarks

    Argmax, Inc., USA · University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  4. Automatic Speech Recognition for Documenting Endangered Languages: Case Study of Ikema Miyakoan

    Mar 27, 2026Chihiro Taguchi, Yukinori Takubo, David ChiangAutomatic Speech RecognitionSpeech Processing

    University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA · National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan

  5. Abstract Compression of Conversational Audio Context for LLM-based ASR

    Mar 27, 2026Shashi Kumar, Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Sergio Burdisso +7Contextual ASRAutomatic Speech Recognition

    Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland · EPFL, Switzerland · Uniphore, U.S.A. +2

  6. Back to Basics: Revisiting ASR in the Age of Voice Agents

    Mar 26, 2026Geeyang Tay, Wentao Ma, Jaewon Lee +8Robust ASRAutomatic Speech Recognition

    Boson AI

  7. CLAR: CIF-Localized Alignment for Retrieval-Augmented Speech LLM-Based Contextual ASR

    Mar 26, 2026Shangkun Huang, Huan Shen, Wei Zou +1Contextual ASRAutomatic Speech Recognition

    BRVoice Team, Bairong, Inc., China

  8. Joint Learning Global-Local Speaker Classification to Enhance End-to-End Speaker Diarization and Recognition

    Mar 26, 2026Yuhang Dai, Haopeng Lin, Jiale Qian +9Speaker DiarizationAutomatic Speech Recognition

    Soul AI Lab, China · X-LANCE Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  9. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Automatic Speech Recognition Bias in Newcastle English

    Mar 25, 2026Dana Serditova, Kevin TangDemographic Bias in ASRAutomatic Speech Recognition

    University of Regensburg, Faculty of Languages, Literature, and Cultures, Department of English and American Studies, Regensburg, 93040, Bavaria, Germany · Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of English and American Studies, Department English Language and Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 40225, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · University of Florida, Department of Linguistics, Gainesville, 32611-5454, Florida, U.S.A.

  10. From Oracle to Noisy Context: Mitigating Contextual Exposure Bias in Speech-LLMs

    Mar 25, 2026Xiaoyong Guo, Nanjie Li, Zijie Zeng +4Contextual ASRAutomatic Speech Recognition

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China · Timekettle · Joint International Research Laboratory of Silk Road Multilingual Cognitive Computing, Urumqi, China

  11. MSR-HuBERT: Self-supervised Pre-training for Adaptation to Multiple Sampling Rates

    Mar 24, 2026Zikang Huang, Meng Ge, Tianrui Wang +4Self-Supervised Speech Representation LearningAutomatic Speech Recognition

    Tianjin Key Laboratory of Cognitive Computing and Application, Tianjin University, China · Huiyan Technology Company, Ltd., China · Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

  12. Who Spoke What When? Evaluating Spoken Language Models for Conversational ASR with Semantic and Overlap-Aware Metrics

    Mar 24, 2026Naohiro Tawara, Samuele Cornell, Alexander Polok +3Conversational Speech RecognitionAutomatic Speech Recognition

    NTT, Inc., Japan · CMU, USA · BUT, Czechia

  13. Precision-Varying Prediction (PVP): Robustifying ASR systems against adversarial attacks

    Mar 23, 2026Matías Pizarro, Raghavan Narasimhan, Jonas Killian +1Adversarial RobustnessRobust ASR

    Faculty of Computer Science, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

  14. Ara-Best-RQ: Multi Dialectal Arabic SSL

    Mar 23, 2026Haroun Elleuch, Ryan Whetten, Salima Mdhaffar +2Arabic DialectsSpeech Processing

    ELYADATA, Paris, France · Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon, Avignon Université, Avignon, France

  15. Demonstration of Adapt4Me: An Uncertainty-Aware Authoring Environment for Personalizing Automatic Speech Recognition to Non-normative Speech

    Mar 20, 2026Niclas Pokel, Yiming Zhao, Pehuén Moure +2Personalized Speech RecognitionAutomatic Speech Recognition

    Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich · Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich · Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich

  16. Modeling Overlapped Speech with Shuffles

    Mar 18, 2026Matthew Wiesner, Samuele Cornell, Alexander Polok +3Speaker-Attributed ASRAutomatic Speech Recognition

    Johns Hopkins University, USA · LISN, CNRS, France · Carnegie Mellon University, USA +1

  17. RECOVER: Robust Entity Correction via agentic Orchestration of hypothesis Variants for Evidence-based Recovery

    Mar 17, 2026Abhishek Kumar, Aashraya SachdevaAutomatic Speech Recognition

    Observe.AI, India

  18. Over-the-air White-box Attack on the Wav2Vec Speech Recognition Neural Network

    Mar 17, 2026Protopopov AlexeyAdversarial ExamplesPhysical Adversarial Attacks

    Joint Stock Research and Production Company Kryptonite

  19. Is Semi-Automatic Transcription Useful in Corpus Creation? Preliminary Considerations on the KIParla Corpus

    Mar 17, 2026Martina Simonotti, Ludovica Pannitto, Eleonora Zucchini +2Speech Corpus ConstructionAutomatic Speech Recognition

    University of Bologna, Bologna - Italy · Masaryk University, Brno - Czech Republic

  20. Polyglot-Lion: Efficient Multilingual ASR for Singapore via Balanced Fine-Tuning of Qwen3-ASR

    Mar 17, 2026Quy-Anh Dang, Chris NgoAutomatic Speech RecognitionMultilingual ASR

    Knovel Engineeing Lab, Singapore

  21. Tagarela - A Portuguese speech dataset from podcasts

    Mar 16, 2026Frederico Santos de Oliveira, Lucas Rafael Stefanel Gris, Alef Iury Siqueira Ferreira +8Automatic Speech RecognitionLow-Resource Speech Recognition

    Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) · Federal University of Goias (UFG) · Paulista State University (UNESP) +2

  22. Two-Stage Adaptation for Non-Normative Speech Recognition: Revisiting Speaker-Independent Initialization for Personalization

    Mar 16, 2026Shan Jiang, Jiawen Qi, Chuanbing Huo +2Automatic Speech RecognitionDomain Adaptation for ASR

    Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands · Penobscot Community Health Care, United States · Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  23. Vietnamese Automatic Speech Recognition: A Revisit

    Mar 16, 2026Thi Vu, Linh The Nguyen, Dat Quoc NguyenSpeech ProcessingAutomatic Speech Recognition

    Qualcomm Vietnam Company Limited. Qualcomm AI Research is an initiative of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

  24. Continued Pretraining for Low-Resource Swahili ASR: Achieving State-of-the-Art Performance with Minimal Labeled Data

    Mar 11, 2026Hillary Mutisya, John MuganeAutomatic Speech RecognitionLow-Resource Speech Recognition

    Thiomi-Lugha NLP · Harvard University

  25. Beyond Deep Learning: Speech Segmentation and Phone Classification with Neural Assemblies

    Mar 11, 2026Trevor Adelson, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Ting DangSpeech ProcessingAutomatic Speech Recognition

    The University of Melbourne, Australia · The University of New South Wales, Australia

  26. Learnable Pulse Accumulation for On-Device Speech Recognition: How Much Attention Do You Need?

    Mar 11, 2026Yakov Pyotr ShkolnikovTransformer AttentionAutomatic Speech Recognition

  27. Duration Aware Scheduling for ASR Serving Under Workload Drift

    Mar 11, 2026Darshan Makwana, Yash Jogi, Harsh Kotta +1Real-Time SchedulingAutomatic Speech Recognition

    Sprinklr Gurugram, India

  28. Huntington Disease Automatic Speech Recognition with Biomarker Supervision

    Mar 11, 2026Charles L. Wang, Cady Chen, Ziwei Gong +1Automatic Speech RecognitionClinical Speech Processing

    Columbia University

  29. Uni-ASR: Unified LLM-Based Architecture for Non-Streaming and Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition

    Mar 11, 2026Yinfeng Xia, Jian Tang, Junfeng Hou +2Automatic Speech RecognitionStreaming ASR

    Qwen Applications Business Group, Alibaba, China · Tongyi AI Lab, Alibaba, China

  30. Distilling LLM Semantic Priors into Encoder-Only Multi-Talker ASR with Talker-Count Routing

    Mar 11, 2026Hao Shi, Yusuke Fujita, Roman Koshkin +4Multi-Speaker ASRConnectionist Temporal Classification

    SB Intuitions, Tokyo, Japan