arXiv:2606. 07473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whisper, a widely adopted ASR model, is known to suffer from hallucinations - coherent transcriptions generated for non-speech audio entirely disconnected from the input.
By Georgii Aparin, Vadim Popov, Tasnima Sadekova, Assel Yermekova
arXiv:2606. 16505v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding speaker confidence is crucial in educational settings, as it can enhance personalised feedback and improve learning outcomes.
By Adam Wynn, Jingyun Wang, Xiangyu Tan
arXiv:2604. 01832v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce GAP-URGENet, a generative-predictive fusion framework developed for Track 1 of the ICASSP 2026 URGENT Challenge.
By Xiaobin Rong, Yushi Wang, Zheng Wang, Jing Lu
arXiv:2607. 13013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speech recognition is dominated by autoregressive decoders that emit one token at a time.
By Harsha Vardhan Khurdula, Abhinav Kumar Singh, Yoeven D Khemlani, Vineet Agarwal
arXiv:2606. 30700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning enables audio representations that transfer across domains and tasks.
By Ludovic K. Tuncay (IRIT-SAMoVA), Etienne Labb\'e (IRIT-SAMoVA), Thomas Pellegrini (IRIT-SAMoVA)
Automatic speech recognition is dominated by autoregressive decoders that emit one token at a time. We ask whether a discrete diffusion language model can transcribe speech instead, refining a whole transcript in parallel over a small number of denoising steps.