arXiv:2607. 23813v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Earnings25, a finance-domain benchmark for evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) on English-language earnings calls under realistic conditions.
By Denglin Jiang, Haoran Zhou, Anshul Wadhawan, Brendan Fahy, Vinay Ramesh, David Weisberg, Dmitriy Derkachevskiy, Helen Sheehan, Srivas Prasad, Michele Franceschini
arXiv:2606. 03957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational ASR for lower-resource languages and niche domains is limited by the scarcity of domain-matched multi-speaker training data.
By M\'at\'e Gedeon, P\'eter Mihajlik
arXiv:2607. 14846v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current voice AI benchmarks typically evaluate isolated capabilities such as speech intelligibility, word error rate, or text-based dialogue quality, but they rarely test whether systems harness the acoustic information that distinguishes spoken language from its textual representation.
By David Ayllon, Alice Baird, Jeffrey Brooks, Franc Camps-Febrer, Jakub Piotr C{\l}apa, Theo Lebryk, Jens Madsen, Olya Ossipova, Sharath Rao, Hoon Shin, Tigran Soghbatyan, Georg Streich, Rashish Tandon, Panagiotis Tzirakis
Conversational ASR for lower-resource languages and niche domains is limited by the scarcity of domain-matched multi-speaker training data. We propose an augmentation pipeline that generates scenario-level dialogues with participant metadata, maps speaker attributes to TTS voice profiles, and assembles synthesized utterances into speaker-aware simulated conversations.
arXiv:2606. 28002v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Insurance fraud imposes substantial financial losses and operational inefficiencies, raising premiums and impacting trust among legitimate policyholders.
By Muhammad Shakeel Akram, Amal Htait, Abdul Hamid Sadka, Emma Meisingseth, Karishma Jaitly
arXiv:2510. 25577v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in Speech Foundation Models (SFMs) enable direct processing of raw audio, allowing models to respond to subtle paralinguistic variation.
By Harm Lameris, Shree Harsha Bokkahalli Satish, Joakim Gustafson, \'Eva Sz\'ekely
arXiv:2607. 23808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we introduce Indic DiarBench, a speaker diarization and ASR benchmark dataset spanning all 22 scheduled languages of India.
By Deovrat Mehendale, Aditya Mehndiratta, Dhruv Rathi, Kaushal Bhogale, Mitesh M. Khapra
arXiv:2608. 09930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated Text-to-Speech (TTS) evaluation methods (Mean Opinion Score (MOS) predictors and Audio Large Language Models (Audio-LLM) judges) are expected to reflect human perception, yet it is unclear how well they capture the distinct aspects of speech that listeners actually perceive.
By Oluwanifemi Bamgbose, Simon Rosen, Jash Shah, Lindsay Devon Brin, Hoang H Nguyen, Anke Koelzer, Rachel Hansen, Tara Bogavelli, Fanny Riols
arXiv:2606. 27698v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic Speech Recognition systems are notoriously both sensitive to adversarial and benign perturbations.
By Andrew C. Cullen, Neil Marchant, Jiani Xie, Paul Montague, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein
State-of-the-art speech datasets predominantly focus on widely spoken languages, often overlooking low-resource languages such as Luxembourgish, which remain underrepresented in speech technology research. In this work, we introduce LuxEmo, a 21-hour conversational expressive speech corpus for Luxembourgish with 4 emotion categories.
arXiv:2607. 08371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthetic multi-speaker conversations are widely used to train conversational automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, but it remains unclear which timing properties make simulated data most useful.
By M\'at\'e Gedeon, P\'eter Mihajlik
arXiv:2607. 08111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training target speaker extraction (TSE) models for real conversational mixtures remains challenging because large-scale training corpora and clean target speech for supervision are unavailable.
By Wanyi Ning, Wei Zhou, Yingpeng Li, Yinshang Guo, Haitao Qian, Yiming Cheng