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It has been shown that the intelligibility of noisy speech can be improved by speech enhancement algorithms. However, speech enhancement has not been established as an effective frontend for robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Yufeng Yang , Ashutosh Pandey , DeLiang Wang

Recently, the end-to-end approach has been successfully applied to multi-speaker speech separation and recognition in both single-channel and multichannel conditions. However, severe performance degradation is still observed in the…

Far-field speech recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions remains a challenging problem despite recent deep learning breakthroughs. This problem is commonly addressed by acquiring a speech signal from multiple microphones and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-17 Zhong Meng , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey , Hakan Erdogan

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) of overlapped speech remains a highly challenging task to date. To this end, multi-channel microphone array data are widely used in state-of-the-art ASR systems. Motivated by the invariance of visual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Jianwei Yu , Bo Wu , Rongzhi Gu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Yong Xu. Meng Yu , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

We propose a single-channel Deep Cascade Fusion of Diarization and Separation (DCF-DS) framework for back-end automatic speech recognition (ASR), combining neural speaker diarization (NSD) and speech separation (SS). First, we sequentially…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Shu-Tong Niu , Jun Du , Ruo-Yu Wang , Gao-Bin Yang , Tian Gao , Jia Pan , Yu Hu

Speech separation algorithms are often used to separate the target speech from other interfering sources. However, purely neural network based speech separation systems often cause nonlinear distortion that is harmful for automatic speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Zhuohuang Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Dong Yu

In realistic environments, speech is usually interfered by various noise and reverberation, which dramatically degrades the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To alleviate this issue, the commonest way is to use a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Bin Liu , Shuai Nie , Yaping Zhang , Dengfeng Ke , Shan Liang , Wenju Liu1

Despite the rapid advance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies, accurate recognition of cocktail party speech characterised by the interference from overlapping speakers, background noise and room reverberation remains a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Guinan Li , Jianwei Yu , Jiajun Deng , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

The performance of speaker-related systems usually degrades heavily in practical applications largely due to the presence of background noise. To improve the robustness of such systems in unknown noisy environments, this paper proposes a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Siyang Song , Shuimei Zhang , Björn Schuller , Linlin Shen , Michel Valstar

In this paper, we explore an improved framework to train a monoaural neural enhancement model for robust speech recognition. The designed training framework extends the existing mixture invariant training criterion to exploit both unpaired…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Jisi Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Jon Barker

This work proposes a novel support vector machine (SVM) based robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) front-end that operates on an ensemble of the subband components of high-dimensional acoustic waveforms. The key issues of selecting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Jibran Yousafzai , Zoran Cvetkovic , Peter Sollich , Matthew Ager

Many purely neural network based speech separation approaches have been proposed to improve objective assessment scores, but they often introduce nonlinear distortions that are harmful to modern automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Zhuohuang Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Donald S. Williamson , Dong Yu

Vision is often used as a complementary modality for audio speech recognition (ASR), especially in the noisy environment where performance of solo audio modality significantly deteriorates. After combining visual modality, ASR is upgraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Bo Xu , Cheng Lu , Yandong Guo , Jacob Wang

Despite the tremendous success of automatic speech recognition (ASR) with the introduction of deep learning, its performance is still unsatisfactory in many real-world multi-talker scenarios. Speaker separation excels in separating…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yufeng Yang , Hassan Taherian , Vahid Ahmadi Kalkhorani , DeLiang Wang

Accurate recognition of cocktail party speech containing overlapping speakers, noise and reverberation remains a highly challenging task to date. Motivated by the invariance of visual modality to acoustic signal corruption, an audio-visual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-07 Guinan Li , Jiajun Deng , Mengzhe Geng , Zengrui Jin , Tianzi Wang , Shujie Hu , Mingyu Cui , Helen Meng , Xunying Liu

Acoustic beamforming models typically assume wide-sense stationarity of speech signals within short time frames. However, voiced speech is better modeled as a cyclostationary (CS) process, a random process whose mean and autocorrelation are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Giovanni Bologni , Richard Heusdens , Richard C. Hendriks

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has shown remarkable progress, yet it still faces challenges in real-world distant scenarios across various array topologies each with multiple recording devices. The focal point of the CHiME-7 Distant ASR…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Bingshen Mu , Pengcheng Guo , Dake Guo , Pan Zhou , Wei Chen , Lei Xie

Humans are adept at leveraging visual cues from lip movements for recognizing speech in adverse listening conditions. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) models follow similar approach to achieve robust speech recognition in noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Maxime Burchi , Krishna C. Puvvada , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg , Radu Timofte

Automatic speech recognition in multi-channel reverberant conditions is a challenging task. The conventional way of suppressing the reverberation artifacts involves a beamforming based enhancement of the multi-channel speech signal, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Anurenjan Purushothaman , Anirudh Sreeram , Sriram Ganapathy

In recent years, monaural speech separation has been formulated as a supervised learning problem, which has been systematically researched and shown the dramatical improvement of speech intelligibility and quality for human listeners.…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Zhihao Du , Xueliang Zhang , Jiqing Han