arXiv:2608. 19361v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study reports the development of an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system in Mizo, a low-resource language.
arXiv:2607. 17164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for morphologically rich, low-resource languages such as Assamese is challenging due to insufficient annotated speech data.
The study fine‑tunes the Whisper Small model for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in Baniwa, an indigenous Arawakan language. Using a 0.54‑hour corpus of 1,373 manually transcribed recordings, the fine‑tuned model achieved a Word Error Rate of 37.5% and a Character Error Rate of 7.45%. These results provide an initial baseline for Baniwa ASR and suggest that multilingual foundation models can be adapted to extremely low‑resource languages.
arXiv:2609.09554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce BuzzASR, a collection of language-specialized fine-tuned Whisper models adapted for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in 102 languages. L...
We introduce BuzzASR, a collection of language-specialized fine-tuned Whisper models adapted for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in 102 languages. Large end-to-end Transformer-based ASR models such...
arXiv:2609.36920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comprehensive evaluations of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Iberian languages remain limited, and low-resource languages, biases, and efficienc...
arXiv:2609.14542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neyshekar is presented as an open Persian read-speech corpus designed for coverage of both formal and informal language, named entities, and longer utt...
The paper introduces a unified phoneme‑based TTS‑to‑ASR augmentation pipeline that uses a multilingual TTS model with language‑ID conditioning and incorporates grapheme‑to‑phoneme conversion, reference‑speech filtering, and candidate‑text selection. It proposes phoneme‑frequency‑guided selection (PFGS) to rank sentences based on phoneme frequencies from real ASR labels, and demonstrates that random augmentation and PFGS both improve ASR performance across Arabic, French, Italian, and Portuguese test sets, with PFGS yielding up to a 19.3% relative WER reduction. The study also shows that filtering reference speech can further lower WER by up to 0.59 points on certain datasets.
arXiv:2609.13151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Leading multilingual speech recognition models like Whisper transcribe diverse, low-resource languages without language-specific training but are compu...
arXiv:2605. 13087v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fine-tuning multilingual ASR models like Whisper for low-resource languages often improves read speech but degrades spontaneous audio performance.
This study evaluates automatic speech recognition (ASR) for adolescent health communication in Twi, Dagbani, and Ewe by benchmarking five ASR systems on a Bible corpus and a domain-specific ASRH dataset, then performing supervised domain adaptation with a fine‑tuned Qwen3-ASR-0.6B model. Fine‑tuning significantly lowered word and character error rates, especially for Ewe, and the adapted model was deployed in the KasaHealth voice‑first application, which received high user approval and highlighted remaining domain gaps. The work demonstrates that in‑domain data, rather than model size or computational resources, is the primary limitation for effective ASR in these languages.
arXiv:2603. 04710v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech enhancement have strengthened the common belief that cleaner audio should lead to more accurate transcription.
arXiv:2603. 29042v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Phone recognition (PR) is a key enabler of multilingual and low-resource speech processing tasks, yet robust performance remains elusive.