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This paper describes our RoyalFlush system for the track of multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) in the M2MeT challenge. We adopted the serialized output training (SOT) based multi-speakers ASR system with large-scale simulation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Shuaishuai Ye , Peiyao Wang , Shunfei Chen , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

The performance of speech enhancement algorithms in a multi-speaker scenario depends on correctly identifying the target speaker to be enhanced. Auditory attention decoding (AAD) methods allow to identify the target speaker which the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ali Aroudi , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Keisuke Kinoshita , Shoko Araki , Simon Doclo

The goal of this work is to develop a meeting transcription system that can recognize speech even when utterances of different speakers are overlapped. While speech overlaps have been regarded as a major obstacle in accurately transcribing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-10 Takuya Yoshioka , Hakan Erdogan , Zhuo Chen , Xiong Xiao , Fil Alleva

Driven by large scale datasets and LLM based architectures, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved remarkable improvements in accuracy. However, challenges persist for domain-specific terminology, and short utterances…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Jinming Chen , Lu Wang , Zheshu Song , Wei Deng

Deep clustering is a recently introduced deep learning architecture that uses discriminatively trained embeddings as the basis for clustering. It was recently applied to spectrogram segmentation, resulting in impressive results on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Yusuf Isik , Jonathan Le Roux , Zhuo Chen , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey

Most approaches to multi-talker overlapped speech separation and recognition assume that the number of simultaneously active speakers is given, but in realistic situations, it is typically unknown. To cope with this, we extend an iterative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Thilo von Neumann , Christoph Boeddeker , Lukas Drude , Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Recently, a versatile limited feedback scheme based on a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) was proposed for frequency division duplex (FDD) systems. This scheme provides high flexibility regarding various system parameters and is applicable to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Nurettin Turan , Benedikt Fesl , Wolfgang Utschick

In this paper we address the problem of enhancing speech signals in noisy mixtures using a source separation approach. We explore the use of neural networks as an alternative to a popular speech variance model based on supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Simon Leglaive , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

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

For multi-channel speech recognition, speech enhancement techniques such as denoising or dereverberation are conventionally applied as a front-end processor. Deep learning-based front-ends using such techniques require aligned clean and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Hyeongju Kim , Hyeonseung Lee , Woo Hyun Kang , Hyung Yong Kim , Nam Soo Kim

Recently, the research on ad-hoc microphone arrays with deep learning has drawn much attention, especially in speech enhancement and separation. Because an ad-hoc microphone array may cover such a large area that multiple speakers may…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Ziye Yang , Shanzheng Guan , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Recently, the end-to-end approach has proven its efficacy in monaural multi-speaker speech recognition. However, high word error rates (WERs) still prevent these systems from being used in practical applications. On the other hand, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-17 Xuankai Chang , Wangyou Zhang , Yanmin Qian , Jonathan Le Roux , Shinji Watanabe

The optimization of cooperative beamforming vectors in cell-free massive MIMO (mMIMO) systems is presented where multi-antenna access points (APs) support downlink data transmission of multiple users. Albeit the successes of the weighted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Wonsik Yoo , Daesung Yu , Hoon Lee , Seok-Hwan Park

The growing demand for efficient delivery of common content to multiple user equipments (UEs) has motivated significant research in physical-layer multicasting. By exploiting the beamforming capabilities of massive MIMO, multicasting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Mahmoud Zaher , Emil Björnson

This paper presents the contribution to the third 'CHiME' speech separation and recognition challenge including both front-end signal processing and back-end speech recognition. In the front-end, Multi-channel Wiener filter (MWF) is…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Xiaofei Wang , Chao Wu , Pengyuan Zhang , Ziteng Wang , Yong Liu , Xu Li , Qiang Fu , Yonghong Yan

This paper describes a practical dual-process speech enhancement system that adapts environment-sensitive frame-online beamforming (front-end) with help from environment-free block-online source separation (back-end). To use minimum…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Aditya Arie Nugraha , Kouhei Sekiguchi , Mathieu Fontaine , Yoshiaki Bando , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

The Speaker Diarization and Recognition (SDR) task aims to predict "who spoke when and what" within an audio clip, which is a crucial task in various real-world multi-speaker scenarios such as meeting transcription and dialogue systems.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Han Yin , Yafeng Chen , Chong Deng , Luyao Cheng , Hui Wang , Chao-Hong Tan , Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Xiangang Li

We propose multi-microphone complex spectral mapping, a simple way of applying deep learning for time-varying non-linear beamforming, for speaker separation in reverberant conditions. We aim at both speaker separation and dereverberation.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Peidong Wang , DeLiang Wang

This technical report outlines our submission system for the CHiME-8 NOTSOFAR-1 Challenge. The primary difficulty of this challenge is the dataset recorded across various conference rooms, which captures real-world complexities such as high…

This research is an effort to present an effective approach to enhance text-independent speaker identification performance in emotional talking environments based on novel classifier called cascaded Gaussian Mixture Model-Deep Neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Ismail Shahin , Ali Bou Nassif , Shibani Hamsa