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The availability of realistic simulated corpora is of key importance for the future progress of distant speech recognition technology. The reliability, flexibility and low computational cost of a data simulation process may ultimately allow…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-28 Mirco Ravanelli , Piergiorgio Svaizer , Maurizio Omologo

High-quality speech dialogue datasets are crucial for Speech-LLM development, yet existing acquisition methods face significant limitations. Human recordings incur high costs and privacy concerns, while synthetic approaches often lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Minghan Wang , Ye Bai , Yuxia Wang , Thuy-Trang Vu , Ehsan Shareghi , Gholamreza Haffari

We present a state-of-the-art speech recognition system developed using end-to-end deep learning. Our architecture is significantly simpler than traditional speech systems, which rely on laboriously engineered processing pipelines; these…

As an indispensable part of modern human-computer interaction system, speech synthesis technology helps users get the output of intelligent machine more easily and intuitively, thus has attracted more and more attention. Due to the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , Yizhuo Dong

Automatic speech recognition systems are part of people's daily lives, embedded in personal assistants and mobile phones, helping as a facilitator for human-machine interaction while allowing access to information in a practically intuitive…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Julio Cesar Duarte , Sérgio Colcher

Dysarthric speech poses significant challenges for individuals with dysarthria, impacting their ability to communicate socially. Despite the widespread use of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), accurately recognizing dysarthric speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yan Wang , Mengyi Sun , Xinchen Kang , Jingting Li , Pengfei Guo , Ming Gao , Su-Jing Wang

Most speech and language technologies are trained with massive amounts of speech and text information. However, most of the world languages do not have such resources or stable orthography. Systems constructed under these almost zero…

Nowadays, foundation models become one of fundamental infrastructures in artificial intelligence, paving ways to the general intelligence. However, the reality presents two urgent challenges: existing foundation models are dominated by the…

This paper presents BSTC (Baidu Speech Translation Corpus), a large-scale Chinese-English speech translation dataset. This dataset is constructed based on a collection of licensed videos of talks or lectures, including about 68 hours of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Ruiqing Zhang , Xiyang Wang , Chuanqiang Zhang , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Zhi Li , Haifeng Wang , Ying Chen , Qinfei Li

The Chinese numerical string corpus, serves as a valuable resource for speaker verification, particularly in financial transactions. Researches indicate that in short speech scenarios, text-dependent speaker verification (TD-SV)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Litong Zheng , Feng Hong , Weijie Xu , Wan Zheng

SpeechBrain is an open-source and all-in-one speech toolkit. It is designed to facilitate the research and development of neural speech processing technologies by being simple, flexible, user-friendly, and well-documented. This paper…

Describes an audio dataset of spoken words designed to help train and evaluate keyword spotting systems. Discusses why this task is an interesting challenge, and why it requires a specialized dataset that is different from conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Pete Warden

For conversational large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) tasks, up to about two thousand hours of audio is commonly used to train state of the art models. Collection of labeled conversational audio however, is prohibitively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Shane Walker , Morten Pedersen , Iroro Orife , Jason Flaks

This paper tackles the problem of the heavy dependence of clean speech data required by deep learning based audio-denoising methods by showing that it is possible to train deep speech denoising networks using only noisy speech samples.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Madhav Mahesh Kashyap , Anuj Tambwekar , Krishnamoorthy Manohara , S Natarajan

Spoken language conveys meaning not only through words but also through intonation, emotion, and emphasis. Sentence stress, the emphasis placed on specific words within a sentence, is crucial for conveying speaker intent and has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Iddo Yosha , Dorin Shteyman , Yossi Adi

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is greatly developed in recent years, which expedites many applications on other fields. For the ASR research, speech corpus is always an essential foundation, especially for the vertical industry, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Bo Yang , Xianlong Tan , Zhengmao Chen , Bing Wang , Dan Li , Zhongping Yang , Xiping Wu , Yi Lin

We present an open-source speech corpus for the Kazakh language. The Kazakh speech corpus (KSC) contains around 332 hours of transcribed audio comprising over 153,000 utterances spoken by participants from different regions and age groups,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Yerbolat Khassanov , Saida Mussakhojayeva , Almas Mirzakhmetov , Alen Adiyev , Mukhamet Nurpeiissov , Huseyin Atakan Varol

Speech AI Technologies are largely trained on publicly available datasets or by the massive web-crawling of speech. In both cases, data acquisition focuses on minimizing collection effort, without necessarily taking the data subjects'…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Orestis Papakyriakopoulos , Alice Xiang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques have achieved remarkable results in various speech processing tasks. Nonetheless, a significant challenge remains in reducing the reliance on vast amounts of speech data for pre-training. This paper…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Po-chun Hsu , Ali Elkahky , Wei-Ning Hsu , Yossi Adi , Tu Anh Nguyen , Jade Copet , Emmanuel Dupoux , Hung-yi Lee , Abdelrahman Mohamed

There has been huge progress in speech recognition over the last several years. Tasks once thought extremely difficult, such as SWITCHBOARD, now approach levels of human performance. The MALACH corpus (LDC catalog LDC2012S05), a 375-Hour…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Michael Picheny , Zóltan Tüske , Brian Kingsbury , Kartik Audhkhasi , Xiaodong Cui , George Saon