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Performance evaluation of SLAM-ASR: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Way Forward
Shashi Kumar, Iuliia Thorbecke, Sergio Burdisso +7
Recent research has demonstrated that training a linear connector between speech foundation encoders and large language models (LLMs) enables this architecture to achieve strong AS…
Fast Streaming Transducer ASR Prototyping via Knowledge Distillation with Whisper
Iuliia Thorbecke, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Esaú Villatoro-Tello +6
The training of automatic speech recognition (ASR) with little to no supervised data remains an open question. In this work, we demonstrate that streaming Transformer-Transducer (T…
Unifying Global and Near-Context Biasing in a Single Trie Pass
Iuliia Thorbecke, Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez +9
Despite the success of end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, challenges persist in recognizing rare, out-of-vocabulary words - including named entities (NE) - and i…
TokenVerse: Towards Unifying Speech and NLP Tasks via Transducer-based ASR
Shashi Kumar, Srikanth Madikeri, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez +6
In traditional conversational intelligence from speech, a cascaded pipeline is used, involving tasks such as voice activity detection, diarization, transcription, and subsequent pr…