# MOVER: Combining Multiple Meeting Recognition Systems

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05055 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.05055/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 7 Aug 2025.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Re-evaluating Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Automatic Speech Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.19471/) (2025)
- [Who Spoke What When? Evaluating Spoken Language Models for Conversational ASR with Semantic and Overlap-Aware Metrics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.22709/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we propose Meeting recognizer Output Voting Error Reduction (MOVER), a novel system combination method for meeting recognition tasks. Although there are methods to combine the output of diarization (e.g., DOVER) or automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems (e.g., ROVER), MOVER is the first approach that can combine the outputs of meeting recognition systems that differ in terms of both diarization and ASR. MOVER combines hypotheses with different time intervals and speaker labels through a five-stage process that includes speaker alignment, segment grouping, word and timing combination, etc. Experimental results on the CHiME-8 DASR task and the multi-channel track of the NOTSOFAR-1 task demonstrate that MOVER can successfully combine multiple meeting recognition systems with diverse diarization and recognition outputs, achieving relative tcpWER improvements of 9.55 % and 8.51 % over the state-of-the-art systems for both tasks.