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Long-Tail Rebalancing for Non-Verbal Vocalization-Aware ASR: A Track~1 System for the NVVSpeech Challenge

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 20, 2026 · UTC

Non-verbal vocalizations (NVVs) carry important paralinguistic information but are often omitted by conventional automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. The ISCSLP NVVSpeech Challenge requires joint transcription of lexical content and 16 NVV categories under limited and highly imbalanced supervision. We present a data-centric NVV-aware ASR pipeline based on cross-dataset label harmonization and a two-stage sampling schedule. We map heterogeneous source labels to the official taxonomy and exclude samples without a reliable mapping. Our schedule first uses square-root category sampling to m

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