8 papers
HK-LegiCoST: Leveraging Non-Verbatim Transcripts for Speech Translation
Cihan Xiao, Henry Li Xinyuan, Jinyi Yang +4
We introduce HK-LegiCoST, a new three-way parallel corpus of Cantonese-English translations, containing 600+ hours of Cantonese audio, its standard traditional Chinese transcript,…
WST: Weakly Supervised Transducer for Automatic Speech Recognition
Dongji Gao, Chenda Liao, Changliang Liu +5
The Recurrent Neural Network-Transducer (RNN-T) is widely adopted in end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks but depends heavily on large-scale, high-quality anno…
Recent Trends in Distant Conversational Speech Recognition: A Review of CHiME-7 and 8 DASR Challenges
Samuele Cornell, Christoph Boeddeker, Taejin Park +9
The CHiME-7 and 8 distant speech recognition (DASR) challenges focus on multi-channel, generalizable, joint automatic speech recognition (ASR) and diarization of conversational spe…
CS-FLEURS: A Massively Multilingual and Code-Switched Speech Dataset
Brian Yan, Injy Hamed, Shuichiro Shimizu +24
We present CS-FLEURS, a new dataset for developing and evaluating code-switched speech recognition and translation systems beyond high-resourced languages. CS-FLEURS consists of 4…
Enhancing Dialogue Annotation with Speaker Characteristics Leveraging a Frozen LLM
Thomas Thebaud, Yen-Ju Lu, Matthew Wiesner +2
In dialogue transcription pipelines, Large Language Models (LLMs) are frequently employed in post-processing to improve grammar, punctuation, and readability. We explore a compleme…
LID Models are Actually Accent Classifiers: Implications and Solutions for LID on Accented Speech
Niyati Bafna, Matthew Wiesner
Prior research indicates that LID model performance significantly declines on accented speech; however, the specific causes, extent, and characterization of these errors remain und…