{"id":"https://openalex.org/W7155082862","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ncc68160.2026.11478919","title":"Investigating Whisper's Prompt to Enhance Indian Accent Speech Recognition","display_name":"Investigating Whisper's Prompt to Enhance Indian Accent Speech Recognition","publication_year":2026,"publication_date":"2026-02-26","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W7155082862","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ncc68160.2026.11478919"},"language":null,"primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/ncc68160.2026.11478919","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ncc68160.2026.11478919","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"2026 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5101252426","display_name":"Premjeet Singh","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9650-1138"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210139030","display_name":"Samsung (India)","ror":"https://ror.org/04cpx2569","country_code":"IN","type":"company","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I2250650973","https://openalex.org/I4210139030"]}],"countries":["IN"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Premjeet Singh","raw_affiliation_strings":["Samsung Research Institute,Bangalore,India"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Samsung Research Institute,Bangalore,India","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210139030"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5134120123","display_name":"Abharna K","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210164862","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)","ror":"https://ror.org/05p590m36","country_code":"CA","type":"company","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210164862"]}],"countries":["CA"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Abharna K","raw_affiliation_strings":["Kumaraguru College of Technology,Dept. of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science,Coimbatore,India"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Kumaraguru College of Technology,Dept. of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science,Coimbatore,India","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210164862"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5134160237","display_name":"Balaji R L","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I33851549","display_name":"Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital","ror":"https://ror.org/03dn3wf28","country_code":"IN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I33851549"]}],"countries":["IN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Balaji R L","raw_affiliation_strings":["Kumaraguru College of Technology,Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,Coimbatore,India"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Kumaraguru College of Technology,Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,Coimbatore,India","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I33851549"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5134130243","display_name":"Gayathri R","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210164862","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)","ror":"https://ror.org/05p590m36","country_code":"CA","type":"company","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210164862"]}],"countries":["CA"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Gayathri R","raw_affiliation_strings":["Kumaraguru College of Technology,Dept. of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science,Coimbatore,India"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Kumaraguru College of Technology,Dept. of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science,Coimbatore,India","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210164862"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5134170658","display_name":"Reshma Sefali A","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I33851549","display_name":"Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital","ror":"https://ror.org/03dn3wf28","country_code":"IN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I33851549"]}],"countries":["IN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Reshma Sefali A","raw_affiliation_strings":["Kumaraguru College of Technology,Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,Coimbatore,India"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Kumaraguru College of Technology,Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,Coimbatore,India","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I33851549"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5004066145","display_name":"Gopal Kumar Agrawal","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210139030","display_name":"Samsung (India)","ror":"https://ror.org/04cpx2569","country_code":"IN","type":"company","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I2250650973","https://openalex.org/I4210139030"]}],"countries":["IN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Gopal Kumar Agrawal","raw_affiliation_strings":["Samsung Research Institute,Bangalore,India"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Samsung Research Institute,Bangalore,India","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210139030"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5004341076","display_name":"Asmitha Shree R","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I33851549","display_name":"Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital","ror":"https://ror.org/03dn3wf28","country_code":"IN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I33851549"]}],"countries":["IN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Asmitha Shree R","raw_affiliation_strings":["Kumaraguru College of Technology,Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,Coimbatore,India"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Kumaraguru College of Technology,Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,Coimbatore,India","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I33851549"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":7,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5101252426"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210139030"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.93393929,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"322","last_page":"327"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12262","display_name":"Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection","score":0.09430000185966492,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12262","display_name":"Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection","score":0.09430000185966492,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10667","display_name":"Emotion and Mood Recognition","score":0.06279999762773514,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3205","display_name":"Experimental and Cognitive Psychology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/32","display_name":"Psychology"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10201","display_name":"Speech Recognition and Synthesis","score":0.05339999869465828,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/stress","display_name":"Stress (linguistics)","score":0.5723000168800354},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/prosody","display_name":"Prosody","score":0.29910001158714294},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/speaker-recognition","display_name":"Speaker recognition","score":0.2976999878883362},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/focus","display_name":"Focus (optics)","score":0.27730000019073486},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/noise","display_name":"Noise (video)","score":0.267300009727478}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776756274","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181767","display_name":"Stress (linguistics)","level":2,"score":0.5723000168800354},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C28490314","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189436","display_name":"Speech recognition","level":1,"score":0.5679000020027161},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.4228000044822693},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41895202","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8162","display_name":"Linguistics","level":1,"score":0.40939998626708984},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C15744967","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9418","display_name":"Psychology","level":0,"score":0.39660000801086426},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C204321447","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30642","display_name":"Natural language processing","level":1,"score":0.33889999985694885},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C542774811","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10880526","display_name":"Prosody","level":2,"score":0.29910001158714294},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C133892786","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1145189","display_name":"Speaker recognition","level":2,"score":0.2976999878883362},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.29739999771118164},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C192209626","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190909","display_name":"Focus (optics)","level":2,"score":0.27730000019073486},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C99498987","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2210247","display_name":"Noise (video)","level":3,"score":0.267300009727478},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776401178","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12050496","display_name":"Feature (linguistics)","level":2,"score":0.2612999975681305},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C137584468","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35395","display_name":"Phonetics","level":2,"score":0.250900000333786}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/ncc68160.2026.11478919","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ncc68160.2026.11478919","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"2026 National Conference on Communications (NCC)","raw_type":"proceedings-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":10,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W2144578941","https://openalex.org/W3035390927","https://openalex.org/W4385807453","https://openalex.org/W4385822371","https://openalex.org/W4385822953","https://openalex.org/W4406461631","https://openalex.org/W4406461843","https://openalex.org/W4408345664","https://openalex.org/W4415433455","https://openalex.org/W7131783906"],"related_works":[],"abstract_inverted_index":{"The":[0,19],"state-of-the-art":[1],"Whisper":[2,36,51,118,140],"automatic":[3],"speech":[4,10,44,104],"recognition":[5],"(ASR)":[6],"model":[7,29,52,119],"provides":[8,38],"impressive":[9],"transcription":[11,79],"performance":[12,41,123],"of":[13,22,64,71,98,111,138],"samples":[14],"recorded":[15],"across":[16,42],"different":[17,43,83,116],"domains.":[18],"large":[20,127],"amount":[21],"data":[23],"used":[24],"during":[25],"training":[26],"makes":[27],"the":[28,62,69,87,96,109,139],"domain-invariant":[30],"causing":[31],"improved":[32,136],"overall":[33],"performance.":[34,80],"However,":[35],"still":[37],"varying":[39],"transcribing":[40],"dialects":[45],"and":[46,91,102,120,142],"namedentities.":[47],"Along":[48],"with":[49,147],"speech,":[50],"is":[53],"also":[54,107],"designed":[55],"to":[56,74,94,144],"receive":[57],"textual":[58],"prompts":[59,99],"that":[60],"guide":[61],"process":[63],"transcription.":[65],"This":[66],"paper":[67],"investigates":[68],"use":[70],"Whisper's":[72],"prompt":[73,84,113,141],"improve":[75],"Indian":[76,88],"accent":[77,103],"English":[78,89],"We":[81,106],"analyse":[82],"styles":[85],"on":[86,100,115],"database":[90],"investigate":[92],"how":[93,122,143],"maximise":[95],"effect":[97,110],"namedentities":[101],"transcriptions.":[105],"show":[108,121],"optimum":[112],"style":[114],"variants":[117],"improves":[124],"by":[125],"a":[126],"margin":[128],"(around":[129],"15%).":[130],"Our":[131],"experiments":[132],"are":[133],"aimed":[134],"towards":[135],"understanding":[137],"utilise":[145],"it":[146],"maximum":[148],"efficiency.":[149]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-04-23T06:14:38.165362","created_date":"2026-04-22T00:00:00"}
