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Zhifu Gao

4 accepted papers

2025

Enhancing Low-Resource ASR through Versatile TTS: Bridging the Data Gap

ICASSP 2025accepted

While automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved remarkable performance with large-scale datasets, their efficacy remains inadequate in low-resource settings, encompassing dialects, accents, minority languages, and long-tail hotwords, domains with significant practical relevance. With…

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2025

Speech Recognition Meets Large Language Model: Benchmarking, Models, and Exploration

AAAI 2025technical

In this paper, we focus on prompting one of the most important tasks in the field of speech processing, i.e., automatic speech recognition (ASR), with speech foundation encoders and large language models (LLM). Despite the growing body of research in this area, we find that many crucial design decis…

2024

SeACo-Paraformer: A Non-Autoregressive ASR System with Flexible and Effective Hotword Customization Ability

ICASSP 2024accepted

Hotword customization is one of the concerned issues remained in ASR field - it is of value to enable users of ASR systems to customize names of entities, persons and other phrases to obtain better experience. The past few years have seen effective modeling strategies for ASR contextualization devel…

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2024

emotion2vec: Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Speech Emotion Representation

ACL 2024findings

We propose emotion2vec, a universal speech emotion representation model. emotion2vec is pre-trained on open-source unlabeled emotion data through self-supervised online distillation, combining utterance-level loss and frame-level loss during pre-training. emotion2vec outperforms state-of-the-art pre…