arXiv:2602.08696v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Dysarthric speech recognition is limited by high speaker variability and scarce labeled data. Existing synthesis methods often couple speaker...
By Haoshen Wang, Xueli Zhong, Bingbing Lin, Jia Huang, Xingduo Pan, Shengxiang Liang, Nizhuan Wang, Wai Ting Siok
arXiv:2603. 15988v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dysarthric speech quality assessment (DSQA) is critical for clinical diagnostics and inclusive speech technologies.
By Jaesung Bae, Xiuwen Zheng, Minje Kim, Chang D. Yoo, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
arXiv:2606. 18645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dysarthria is a speech disorder marked by reduced intelligibility and communicative effectiveness.
By Kaimeng Jia, Minzhu Tu, Zengrui Jin, Siyin Wang, Chao Zhang
arXiv:2606. 19797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dysarthric speech recognition is crucial for facilitating effective communication among individuals with dysarthria.
By Paban Sapkota, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv:2606. 19791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The challenge associated with recognizing dysarthric speech primarily arises from pronounced acoustic variability attributed to impaired articulatory precision.
By Paban Sapkota, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Mikko Kurimo, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Shrikanth Narayanan
The paper evaluates whether audio‑language models can use multimodal clinical context to improve dysarthric speech recognition. Using a benchmark built on the Speech Accessibility Project dataset, the authors test diagnosis labels, clinician ratings, and detailed clinical descriptions as prompts for nine models. They find that these prompts yield negligible or negative effects on word error rate, though fine‑tuning with LoRA and mixed prompt formats reduces WER by 52% and benefits certain subgroups such as Down syndrome and mild‑severity speakers.
By Pehu\'en Moure, Niclas Pokel, Bilal Bounajma, Yingqiang Gao, Roman Boehringer, Longbiao Cheng, Shih-Chii Liu
arXiv:2607. 03985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advanced neural technologies in speech synthesis and voice conversion (VC) have introduced severe risks to personal privacy, necessitating robust Speaker Anonymization Systems (SAS).
By Meiying Melissa Chen, Anastasia Kuznetsova, Zhenyu Wang, Zhiyao Duan
Individuals with dysarthria face significant challenges in professional speaking scenarios such as conferences, presentations, and meetings, where real-time communication is crucial. While existing Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) systems provide basic support, they often fail to meet the demands of professional speaking environments due to high latency and unnatural speech patterns.
arXiv:2606. 19793v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The challenge associated with recognizing dysarthric speech primarily arises from pronounced acoustic variability attributed to impaired articulatory precision.
By Paban Sapkota, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Mikko Kurimo, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv:2609.21789v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Most multilingual dysarthria-severity systems either train on a single aetiology-language pair or pool heterogeneous aetiologies into one label space....
By Bernard Muller, Antonio Armando Ortiz Barra\~n\'on, LaVonne Roberts
arXiv:2609.23825v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a comprehensive benchmark of Federated Learning (FL) for multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), evaluating four Speech-LLM archite...
By Jordi Luque, Aleix Sant, Fernando L\'opez
The paper introduces a new strategy for connecting large language models (LLMs) to speech encoders in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems by sharing a single connector across languages within the same linguistic family. This approach reduces the number of parameters needed compared to training a separate connector for each language, while improving generalization across different domains and real‑world corpora. Experiments with two multilingual LLMs and two speech datasets demonstrate that family‑based connectors are both efficient and effective for multilingual ASR deployment.
By Yuchen Zhang, Ravi Shekhar, Haralambos Mouratidis