7 papers
ESPnet3: Infrastructure for Scalable Speech and Audio Research in the Foundation Model Era
Masao Someki, Alexander Polok, Carlos Carvalho +14
Recent speech research involves increasingly large datasets, complex models, and diverse experimental workflows. However, existing frameworks require substantial engineering effort…
CALM: Joint Contextual Acoustic-Linguistic Modeling for Personalization of Multi-Speaker ASR
Muhammad Shakeel, Yosuke Fukumoto, Chikara Maeda +2
We present CALM, a joint Contextual Acoustic-Linguistic Modeling framework for multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR). In personalized AI scenarios, the joint availabilit…
Unifying Diarization, Separation, and ASR with Multi-Speaker Encoder
Muhammad Shakeel, Yui Sudo, Yifan Peng +2
This paper presents a unified multi-speaker encoder (UME), a novel architecture that jointly learns representations for speaker diarization (SD), speech separation (SS), and multi-…
Benchmarking Training Paradigms, Dataset Composition, and Model Scaling for Child ASR in ESPnet
Anyu Ying, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Chyi-Jiunn Lin +7
Despite advancements in ASR, child speech recognition remains challenging due to acoustic variability and limited annotated data. While fine-tuning adult ASR models on child speech…
DYNAC: Dynamic Vocabulary based Non-Autoregressive Contextualization for Speech Recognition
Yui Sudo, Yosuke Fukumoto, Muhammad Shakeel +3
Contextual biasing (CB) improves automatic speech recognition for rare and unseen phrases. Recent studies have introduced dynamic vocabulary, which represents context phrases as ex…
OWSM v4: Improving Open Whisper-Style Speech Models via Data Scaling and Cleaning
Yifan Peng, Shakeel Muhammad, Yui Sudo +4
The Open Whisper-style Speech Models (OWSM) project has developed a series of fully open speech foundation models using academic-scale resources, but their training data remains in…