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This paper describes our Triple X speech recognition system submitted to Task 1 of the Multi-Lingual Conversational Speech Language Modeling (MLC-SLM) Challenge. Our work focuses on optimizing speech recognition accuracy in multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Miaomiao Gao , Xiaoxiao Xiang , Yiwen Guo

Offline multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is an emerging field with great promise for real-world applications. Unfortunately, the current state of research in offline MARL is plagued by inconsistencies in baselines and evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Claude Formanek , Callum Rhys Tilbury , Louise Beyers , Jonathan Shock , Arnu Pretorius

Learning from imperfect data becomes an issue in many industrial applications after the research community has made profound progress in supervised learning from perfectly annotated datasets. The purpose of the Learning from Imperfect Data…

This paper summarizes the Interspeech2025 Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Model (MLC-SLM) challenge, which aims to advance the exploration of building effective multilingual conversational speech LLMs (SLLMs). We provide a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Bingshen Mu , Pengcheng Guo , Zhaokai Sun , Shuai Wang , Hexin Liu , Mingchen Shao , Lei Xie , Eng Siong Chng , Longshuai Xiao , Qiangze Feng , Daliang Wang

The 2020 Personalized Voice Trigger Challenge (PVTC2020) addresses two different research problems a unified setup: joint wake-up word detection with speaker verification on close-talking single microphone data and far-field multi-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-07 Yan Jia , Xingming Wang , Xiaoyi Qin , Yinping Zhang , Xuyang Wang , Junjie Wang , Ming Li

The advent of multilingual language models has generated a resurgence of interest in cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR), which is the task of searching documents in one language with queries from another. However, the rapid pace of…

Recently, increasing research interests have focused on retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to mitigate hallucination for large language models (LLMs). Following this trend, we launch the FutureDial-RAG challenge at SLT 2024, which aims at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Yucheng Cai , Si Chen , Yuxuan Wu , Yi Huang , Junlan Feng , Zhijian Ou

To better model the contextual information and increase the generalization ability of Speech Activity Detection (SAD) system, this paper leverages a multi-lingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system to perform SAD. Sequence…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo , Srikanth Madikeri , Petr Motlicek

This paper summarizes our submission to Task 2 of the second track of the 10th Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC10) "Knowledge-grounded Task-oriented Dialogue Modeling on Spoken Conversations". Similar to the previous year's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-17 David Thulke , Nico Daheim , Christian Dugast , Hermann Ney

Toward high-performance multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR), various types of linguistic information and model design have demonstrated their effectiveness independently. They include language identity (LID), phoneme…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Wei Liu , Jingyong Hou , Dong Yang , Muyong Cao , Tan Lee

This report describes the submission system of the GIST-AiTeR team at the 2022 VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge (VoxSRC) Track 4. Our system mainly includes speech enhancement, voice activity detection , multi-scaled speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Dongkeon Park , Yechan Yu , Kyeong Wan Park , Ji Won Kim , Hong Kook Kim

In this paper, we provide an overview of the NTCIR-18 Automatic Evaluation of LLMs (AEOLLM) task. As large language models (LLMs) grow popular in both academia and industry, how to effectively evaluate the capacity of LLMs becomes an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Junjie Chen , Haitao Li , Zhumin Chu , Yiqun Liu , Qingyao Ai

This paper reports the LEAP submission to the CHiME-6 challenge. The CHiME-6 Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) challenge Track 1 involved the recognition of speech in noisy and reverberant acoustic conditions in home environments with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-25 Anirudh Sreeram , Anurenjan Purushothaman , Rohit Kumar , Sriram Ganapathy

A multi-talker paradigm is introduced that uses different attentional processes to adjust speech recognition scores with the goal to conduct measurements at high signal-to-noise ratios. The basic idea is to simulate a group conversation…

This paper describes our NPU-ASLP system for the Audio-Visual Diarization and Recognition (AVDR) task in the Multi-modal Information based Speech Processing (MISP) 2022 Challenge. Specifically, the weighted prediction error (WPE) and guided…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Pengcheng Guo , He Wang , Bingshen Mu , Ao Zhang , Peikun Chen

The abductive natural language inference task ($\alpha$NLI) is proposed to evaluate the abductive reasoning ability of a learning system. In the $\alpha$NLI task, two observations are given and the most plausible hypothesis is asked to pick…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Yunchang Zhu , Liang Pang , Yanyan Lan , Xueqi Cheng

Spoken language Identification (LID) systems are needed to identify the language(s) present in a given audio sample, and typically could be the first step in many speech processing related tasks such as automatic speech recognition (ASR).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Pradeep Rangan , Sundeep Teki , Hemant Misra

The voice conversion challenge is a bi-annual scientific event held to compare and understand different voice conversion (VC) systems built on a common dataset. In 2020, we organized the third edition of the challenge and constructed and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 Yi Zhao , Wen-Chin Huang , Xiaohai Tian , Junichi Yamagishi , Rohan Kumar Das , Tomi Kinnunen , Zhenhua Ling , Tomoki Toda

Deep Active Learning (DAL) reduces annotation costs by selecting the most informative unlabeled samples during training. As real-world applications become more complex, challenges stemming from distribution shifts (e.g., open-set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Chenkai Wu , Yuanyuan Qi , Xiaohao Yang , Jueqing Lu , Gang Liu , Wray Buntine , Lan Du

Real world data often exhibits a long-tailed and open-ended (with unseen classes) distribution. A practical recognition system must balance between majority (head) and minority (tail) classes, generalize across the distribution, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Ziwei Liu , Zhongqi Miao , Xiaohang Zhan , Jiayun Wang , Boqing Gong , Stella X. Yu