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Too Good to Be True: A Study on Modern Automatic Speech Recognition for the Evaluation of Speech Enhancement
Danilo de Oliveira, Tal Peer, Timo Gerkmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12107 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.12107 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.12107
arXiv:2605.12107v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Speech enhancement (SE) systems are typically evaluated using a variety of instrumental metrics. The use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to evaluate SE performance is common in literature, usually in terms of word error rate (WER). However, WER scores depend heavily on the choice of ASR system and text normalization pipeline. In this paper, we investigate how modern ASR models correlate with human recognition of enhanced speech. A listening experiment reveals that modern ASR models with large-scale noisy training and embedded language models correlate more with human WER than simpler ones, with a transducer model providing the most reliable transcriptions. Nevertheless, we also show that these models' robustness to noise and use of context can be uninformative to an acoustics-focused evaluation of enhancement performance.
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Chunkwise Aligners for Streaming Speech Recognition
Wen Shen Teo, Takafumi Moriya, Masato Mimura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11422 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.11422 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.11422
arXiv:2605.11422v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose the Chunkwise Aligner, a novel architecture for streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR). While the Transducer is the standard model for streaming ASR, its training is costly due to the need to compute all possible audio-label alignments. The recently introduced Aligner reduces this cost by discarding explicit alignments, but this modification makes it unsuitable for streaming. Our approach overcomes this limitation by dividing the audio into chunks and aligning each label to the leftmost frames of its chunk, whereas transitions between chunks are managed by a learned end-of-chunk probability. Experiments show that the Chunkwise Aligner not only matches the Transducer's accuracy in both offline and streaming scenarios, but also offers superior training and decoding efficiencies.
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Rocket Lab is buying Iridium’s satellite network for $8 billion
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-- the space company best known for its small satellite launcher Electron,
-- has announced plans to acquire Iridium Communications for $8 billion.
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with Iridium’s satellite-based communications network,
putting it in a better position to challenge SpaceX.
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Rocket Lab is buying Iridium’s satellite network for $8 billion to take on SpaceX
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Replaced article(s) found for eess.AS. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.AS/new
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- Unifying Diarization, Separation, and ASR with Multi-Speaker Encoder
Muhammad Shakeel, Yui Sudo, Yifan Peng, Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Shinji Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20474 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/115110974009150613
- CALM: Joint Contextual Acoustic-Linguistic Modeling for Personalization of Multi-Speaker ASR
Muhammad Shakeel, Yosuke Fukumoto, Chikara Maeda, Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Shinji Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22792 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116000207024295325
- How Much Does Machine Identity Matter in Anomalous Sound Detection at Test Time?
Kevin Wilkinghoff, Keisuke Imoto, Zheng-Hua Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16253 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116096185732811365
- LMU-Based Sequential Learning and Posterior Ensemble Fusion for Cross-Domain Infant Cry Classific...
Niloofar Jazaeri, Hilmi R. Dajani, Marco Janeczek, Martin Bouchard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02245 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116169771215037748
- Adapting a Text-to-Audio Model for Room Impulse Response Generation
Kirak Kim, Sungyoung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09708 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116209762413602825
- Repurposing Image Diffusion Models for Training-Free Music Style Transfer on Mel-spectrograms
Heehwan Wang, Joonwoo Kwon, Sooyoung Kim, Jungwoo Seo, Shinjae Yoo, Yuewei Lin, Jiook Cha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15913 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/113548024475383386
- DeePen: Penetration Testing for Audio Deepfake Detection
M\"uller, Kawa, Stan, Doan, Jung, Choong, Sperl, B\"ottinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20427 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/114097333876265997
- Re-evaluating Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Automatic Speech Recognition
Yuu Jinnai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19471 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115422969877240889
- Aliasing-Free Neural Audio Synthesis
Yicheng Gu, Junan Zhang, Chaoren Wang, Jerry Li, Zhizheng Wu, Lauri Juvela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20211 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115773521971327576
- TiCo: Time-Controllable Spoken Dialogue Model
Kai-Wei Chang, Wei-Chih Chen, En-Pei Hu, Hung-yi Lee, James Glass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22267 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116283643505371784
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