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RO-N3WS: Enhancing Generalization in Low-Resource ASR with Diverse Romanian Speech Benchmarks

Alexandra Diaconu, Mădălina Vînaga, Bogdan Alexe · Mar 2, 2026 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

We introduce RO-N3WS, a benchmark Romanian speech dataset designed to improve generalization in automatic speech recognition (ASR), particularly in low-resource and out-of-distribution (OOD) conditions. RO-N3WS comprises over 126 hours of transcribed audio collected from broadcast news, literary audiobooks, film dialogue, children's stories, and conversational podcast speech. This diversity enables robust training and fine-tuning across stylistically distinct domains. We evaluate several state-of-the-art ASR systems (Whisper, Wav2Vec 2.0) in both zero-shot and fine-tuned settings, and conduct controlled comparisons using synthetic data generated with expressive TTS models. Our results show that even limited fine-tuning on real speech from RO-N3WS yields substantial WER improvements over zero-shot baselines. We will release all models, scripts, and data splits to support reproducible research in multilingual ASR, domain adaptation, and lightweight deployment.

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HFEPX Relevance Assessment

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Eval-Fit Score

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Evaluation Signal

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HFEPX Fit

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Human Feedback Types

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Evidence snippet: We introduce RO-N3WS, a benchmark Romanian speech dataset designed to improve generalization in automatic speech recognition (ASR), particularly in low-resource and out-of-distribution (OOD) conditions.

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Confidence: Low Source: Runtime deterministic fallback evidenced

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Evidence snippet: We introduce RO-N3WS, a benchmark Romanian speech dataset designed to improve generalization in automatic speech recognition (ASR), particularly in low-resource and out-of-distribution (OOD) conditions.

Quality Controls

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Evidence snippet: We introduce RO-N3WS, a benchmark Romanian speech dataset designed to improve generalization in automatic speech recognition (ASR), particularly in low-resource and out-of-distribution (OOD) conditions.

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Evidence snippet: We introduce RO-N3WS, a benchmark Romanian speech dataset designed to improve generalization in automatic speech recognition (ASR), particularly in low-resource and out-of-distribution (OOD) conditions.

Reported Metrics

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Evidence snippet: Our results show that even limited fine-tuning on real speech from RO-N3WS yields substantial WER improvements over zero-shot baselines.

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Evidence snippet: We introduce RO-N3WS, a benchmark Romanian speech dataset designed to improve generalization in automatic speech recognition (ASR), particularly in low-resource and out-of-distribution (OOD) conditions.

Human Data Lens

  • Uses human feedback: No
  • Feedback types: None
  • Rater population: Unknown
  • Unit of annotation: Unknown
  • Expertise required: Multilingual
  • Extraction source: Runtime deterministic fallback

Evaluation Lens

  • Evaluation modes: Automatic Metrics
  • Agentic eval: None
  • Quality controls: Not reported
  • Confidence: 0.35
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Protocol And Measurement Signals

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Research Brief

Deterministic synthesis

We introduce RO-N3WS, a benchmark Romanian speech dataset designed to improve generalization in automatic speech recognition (ASR), particularly in low-resource and out-of-distribution (OOD) conditions. HFEPX signals include Automatic Metrics with confidence 0.35. Updated from current HFEPX corpus.

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Key Takeaways

  • We introduce RO-N3WS, a benchmark Romanian speech dataset designed to improve generalization in automatic speech recognition (ASR), particularly in low-resource and…
  • We evaluate several state-of-the-art ASR systems (Whisper, Wav2Vec 2.0) in both zero-shot and fine-tuned settings, and conduct controlled comparisons using synthetic data…

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Research Summary

Contribution Summary

  • We introduce RO-N3WS, a benchmark Romanian speech dataset designed to improve generalization in automatic speech recognition (ASR), particularly in low-resource and out-of-distribution (OOD) conditions.
  • We evaluate several state-of-the-art ASR systems (Whisper, Wav2Vec 2.0) in both zero-shot and fine-tuned settings, and conduct controlled comparisons using synthetic data generated with expressive TTS models.

Why It Matters For Eval

  • We introduce RO-N3WS, a benchmark Romanian speech dataset designed to improve generalization in automatic speech recognition (ASR), particularly in low-resource and out-of-distribution (OOD) conditions.

Researcher Checklist

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  • Gap: Quality control reporting appears

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  • Pass: Metric reporting is present

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