Inclusive ASR for Disfluent Speech: Cascaded Large-Scale Self-Supervised Learning with Targeted Fine-Tuning and Data Augmentation

no code implementations • 14 Jun 2024 • Dena Mujtaba, Nihar R. Mahapatra, Megan Arney, J. Scott Yaruss, Caryn Herring, Jia Bin

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often falter while processing stuttering-related disfluencies -- such as involuntary blocks and word repetitions -- yielding inaccurate transcripts.

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AS-70: A Mandarin stuttered speech dataset for automatic speech recognition and stuttering event detection

no code implementations • 11 Jun 2024 • Rong Gong, Hongfei Xue, Lezhi Wang, Xin Xu, Qisheng Li, Lei Xie, Hui Bu, Shaomei Wu, Jiaming Zhou, Yong Qin, BinBin Zhang, Jun Du, Jia Bin, Ming Li

The rapid advancements in speech technologies over the past two decades have led to human-level performance in tasks like automatic speech recognition (ASR) for fluent speech.

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Lost in Transcription: Identifying and Quantifying the Accuracy Biases of Automatic Speech Recognition Systems Against Disfluent Speech

no code implementations • 10 May 2024 • Dena Mujtaba, Nihar R. Mahapatra, Megan Arney, J. Scott Yaruss, Hope Gerlach-Houck, Caryn Herring, Jia Bin

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, increasingly prevalent in education, healthcare, employment, and mobile technology, face significant challenges in inclusivity, particularly for the 80 million-strong global community of people who stutter.

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