Vietnamese Automatic Speech Recognition: A Revisit

Thi Vu, Linh The Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen


Abstract
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) performance is heavily dependent on the availability of large-scale, high-quality datasets. For low-resource languages, existing open-source ASR datasets often suffer from insufficient quality and inconsistent annotation, hindering the development of robust models. To address these challenges, we propose a novel and generalizable data aggregation and preprocessing pipeline designed to construct high-quality ASR datasets from diverse, potentially noisy, open-source sources. Our pipeline incorporates rigorous processing steps to ensure data diversity, balance, and the inclusion of crucial features like word-level timestamps. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our methodology by applying it to Vietnamese, resulting in a unified, high-quality 500-hour dataset that provides a foundation for training and evaluating state-of-the-art Vietnamese ASR systems. Our project page is available at https://github.com/qualcomm-ai-research/PhoASR.
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
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2026
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Rabat, Morocco
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Thi Vu, Linh The Nguyen, and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2026. Vietnamese Automatic Speech Recognition: A Revisit. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026, pages 6557–6568, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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