Improving Tail Performance of a Deliberation E2E ASR Model Using a Large Text Corpus. - Cal Peyser; Sepand Mavandadi; Tara N. Sainath; James Apfel; Ruoming Pang; Shankar Kumar (INTERSPEECH, 2020)

A Deliberation-Based Joint Acoustic and Text Decoder. - Sepand Mavandadi; Tara N. Sainath; Ke Hu; Zelin Wu (Interspeech, 2021)

Improving Deliberation by Text-Only and Semi-Supervised Training. - Ke Hu; Tara N. Sainath; Yanzhang He; Rohit Prabhavalkar; Trevor Strohman; Sepand Mavandadi; Weiran Wang (INTERSPEECH, 2022)

Improving Rare Word Recognition with LM-aware MWER Training. - Weiran Wang; Tongzhou Chen; Tara N. Sainath; Ehsan Variani; Rohit Prabhavalkar; W. Ronny Huang; Bhuvana Ramabhadran; Neeraj Gaur; Sepand Mavandadi; Cal Peyser; Trevor Strohman; Yanzhang He; et al. (INTERSPEECH, 2022)

Streaming End-to-End Multilingual Speech Recognition with Joint Language Identification. - Chao Zhang 031; Bo Li 028; Tara N. Sainath; Trevor Strohman; Sepand Mavandadi; Shuo-Yiin Chang; Parisa Haghani (INTERSPEECH, 2022)

A Truly Multilingual First Pass and Monolingual Second Pass Streaming on-Device ASR System. - Sepand Mavandadi; Bo Li 028; Chao Zhang 031; Brian Farris; Tara N. Sainath; Trevor Strohman (SLT, 2022)

Identifying and Mitigating Mismatched Language Code in Multilingual ASR. - Jaeyoung Kim; Sepand Mavandadi; Kartik Audhkhasi; Shikhar Bharadwaj; Brian Farris; Tongzhou Chen; Bhuvana Ramabhadran; Sriram Ganapathy (ICASSP, 2025)