4 papers
Summary of the ChinaVoices Challenge 2026: Data, Tasks, Baseline, and Methods
Yujie Liao, Bingshen Mu, Shuiyuan Wang +5
This paper summarizes the ChinaVoices Challenge 2026, which aims to establish unified task definitions and evaluation conditions for Chinese dialect speech processing and to advanc…
The SLT 2026 SmartGlasses Challenge: Benchmarking Egocentric Multi-Talker Speech Recognition and Understanding with Audio-Language Models
Dehui Gao, Zhixian Zhao, Zhennan Lin +14
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) have created new opportunities for wearable speech interfaces, with smart glasses providing an egocentri…
On-Policy Self-Distillation for Multi-Dialect ASR: Mastering Dialects, Retaining Mandarin
Shuiyuan Wang, Bingshen Mu, Pengshen Zhang +6
Recent large-scale ASR models already achieve strong Mandarin recognition accuracy and have some ability to recognize Chinese dialects. However, their dialect recognition accuracy…
Seeing the Context: Rich Visual Context-Aware Speech Recognition via Multimodal Reasoning
Wenjie Tian, Mingchen Shao, Bingshen Mu +8
Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) is an extension of ASR that incorporates visual signals. Current AVSR approaches primarily focus on lip motion, largely overlooking rich cont…