4 papers
Benchmarking Human and Automatic Speech Recognition of Diverse Speech: Initial Results
Ilse Huisman, Rares Popa, Yuanyuan Zhang +1
Humans are often considered to be the best listeners and seen as the upper-bound performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. We present a preliminary comparison of t…
Comparing Human and Automatic Recognition of Dutch Dysarthric Continuous Speech: A Case Study
Yuanyuan Zhang, Dimme de Groot, Jorge Martinez +1
In our goal to develop personalised dysarthric speech recognition (DSR) models, this study compared the recognition performances of human listeners and those of three state-of-the-…
A Semi-spontaneous Dutch Speech Dataset for Speech Enhancement and Speech Recognition
Dimme de Groot, Yuanyuan Zhang, Jorge Martinez +1
We present DRES: a 1.5-hour Dutch realistic elicited (semi-spontaneous) speech dataset from 80 speakers recorded in noisy, public indoor environments. DRES was designed as a test s…
Improving child speech recognition with augmented child-like speech
Yuanyuan Zhang, Zhengjun Yue, Tanvina Patel +1
State-of-the-art ASRs show suboptimal performance for child speech. The scarcity of child speech limits the development of child speech recognition (CSR). Therefore, we studied chi…