Automatic speech recognition (asr) systems for children: A systematic literature review

V Bhardwaj, MT Ben Othman, V Kukreja, Y Belkhier… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is one of the ways used to transform acoustic speech
signals into text. Over the last few decades, an enormous amount of research work has been …

Wav2vec2-based speech rating system for children with speech sound disorder

Y Getman, R Al-Ghezi, E Voskoboinik, T Grósz… - Interspeech, 2022 - research.aalto.fi
Speaking is a fundamental way of communication, developed at a young age. Unfortunately,
some children with speech sound disorder struggle to acquire this skill, hindering their ability …

Comprehensive literature review on children automatic speech recognition system, acoustic linguistic mismatch approaches and challenges

R Sobti, K Guleria, V Kadyan - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system for children is as important as for
adults since children are more dependent on these systems nowadays, such as computer …

No Pitch Left Behind: Addressing Gender Unbalance in Automatic Speech Recognition through Pitch Manipulation

D Fucci, M Gaido, M Negri, M Cettolo… - 2023 IEEE Automatic …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are known to be sensitive to the sociolinguistic
variability of speech data, in which gender plays a crucial role. This can result in disparities …

Transfer Learning for Robust Low-Resource Children's Speech ASR with Transformers and Source-Filter Warping

J Thienpondt, K Demuynck - arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.09396, 2022 - arxiv.org
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are known to exhibit difficulties when
transcribing children's speech. This can mainly be attributed to the absence of large …

Data augmentation using spectral warping for low resource children asr

HK Kathania, V Kadyan, SR Kadiri… - Journal of Signal …, 2022 - Springer
In low resource children automatic speech recognition (ASR) the performance is degraded
due to limited acoustic and speaker variability available in small datasets. In this paper, we …

ChildAugment: Data augmentation methods for zero-resource children's speaker verification

VP Singh, M Sahidullah, T Kinnunen - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The accuracy of modern automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems, when trained
exclusively on adult data, drops substantially when applied to children's speech. The …

Improving End-to-End Models for Children's Speech Recognition

T Patel, O Scharenborg - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Children's Speech Recognition (CSR) is a challenging task due to the high variability in
children's speech patterns and limited amount of available annotated children's speech …

Automatic Speech Recognition Tuned for Child Speech in the Classroom

R Southwell, W Ward, VA Trinh… - ICASSP 2024-2024 …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
K-12 school classrooms have proven to be a challenging environment for Automatic Speech
Recognition (ASR) systems, both due to background noise and conversation, and …

An Efficient Speaker Identification Approach for Biometric Access Control System

K Jha, A Jain, S Srivastava - 2023 5th International Conference …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work proposes an efficient cepstral-frequency domain based acoustic feature as a
speaker identification solution for reliable biometric access control system. The …