Biosignal sensors and deep learning-based speech recognition: A review

W Lee, JJ Seong, B Ozlu, BS Shim, A Marakhimov… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Voice is one of the essential mechanisms for communicating and expressing one's
intentions as a human being. There are several causes of voice inability, including disease …

The accented english speech recognition challenge 2020: open datasets, tracks, baselines, results and methods

X Shi, F Yu, Y Lu, Y Liang, Q Feng… - ICASSP 2021-2021 …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The variety of accents has posed a big challenge to speech recognition. The Accented
English Speech Recognition Challenge (AESRC2020) is designed for providing a common …

Afrispeech-200: Pan-african accented speech dataset for clinical and general domain asr

T Olatunji, T Afonja, A Yadavalli, CC Emezue… - Transactions of the …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Africa has a very poor doctor-to-patient ratio. At very busy clinics, doctors could see 30+
patients per day—a heavy patient burden compared with developed countries—but …

Mitigating bias against non-native accents

Y Zhang, Y Zhang, BM Halpern, T Patel… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - research.tudelft.nl
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have seen substantial improvements in the
past decade; however, not for all speaker groups. Recent research shows that bias exists …

Accented speech recognition: A survey

A Hinsvark, N Delworth, M Del Rio… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems generalize poorly on accented speech. The
phonetic and linguistic variability of accents present hard challenges for ASR systems today …

Losses can be blessings: Routing self-supervised speech representations towards efficient multilingual and multitask speech processing

Y Fu, Y Zhang, K Qian, Z Ye, Z Yu… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Self-supervised learning (SSL) for rich speech representations has achieved empirical
success in low-resource Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and other speech processing …

Chinese dialect speech recognition: a comprehensive survey

Q Li, Q Mai, M Wang, M Ma - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2024 - Springer
As a multi-ethnic country with a large population, China is endowed with diverse dialects,
which brings considerable challenges to speech recognition work. In fact, due to …

How accents confound: Probing for accent information in end-to-end speech recognition systems

A Prasad, P Jyothi - Proceedings of the 58th annual meeting of the …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
In this work, we present a detailed analysis of how accent information is reflected in the
internal representation of speech in an end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) …

Redat: Accent-invariant representation for end-to-end asr by domain adversarial training with relabeling

H Hu, X Yang, Z Raeesy, J Guo… - ICASSP 2021-2021 …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accents mismatching is a critical problem for end-to-end ASR. This paper aims to address
this problem by building an accent-robust RNN-T system with domain adversarial training …

Accent-robust automatic speech recognition using supervised and unsupervised wav2vec embeddings

J Li, V Manohar, P Chitkara, A Tjandra… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Speech recognition models often obtain degraded performance when tested on speech with
unseen accents. Domain-adversarial training (DAT) and multi-task learning (MTL) are two …