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We present the Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019, which proposes to build a speech synthesizer without any text or phonetic labels: hence, TTS without T (text-to-speech without text). We provide raw audio for a target voice in an unknown…

This paper introduces the second DIHARD challenge, the second in a series of speaker diarization challenges intended to improve the robustness of diarization systems to variation in recording equipment, noise conditions, and conversational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Neville Ryant , Kenneth Church , Christopher Cieri , Alejandrina Cristia , Jun Du , Sriram Ganapathy , Mark Liberman

This paper describes the systems submitted by team HCCL to the Far-Field Speaker Verification Challenge. Our previous work in the AIshell Speaker Verification Challenge 2019 shows that the powerful modeling abilities of Neural Network…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zhuo Li , Ce Fang , Runqiu Xiao , Zhigao Chen , Wenchao Wang , Yonghong Yan

In multi-lingual societies, where multiple languages are spoken in a small geographic vicinity, informal conversations often involve mix of languages. Existing speech technologies may be inefficient in extracting information from such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-04 Shikha Baghel , Shreyas Ramoji , Somil Jain , Pratik Roy Chowdhuri , Prachi Singh , Deepu Vijayasenan , Sriram Ganapathy

Wake word (WW) spotting is challenging in far-field not only because of the interference in signal transmission but also the complexity in acoustic environments. Traditional WW model training requires large amount of in-domain WW-specific…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Yixin Gao , Yuriy Mishchenko , Anish Shah , Spyros Matsoukas , Shiv Vitaladevuni

ASVspoof 5 is the fifth edition in a series of challenges that promote the study of speech spoofing and deepfake attacks, and the design of detection solutions. Compared to previous challenges, the ASVspoof 5 database is built from…

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

Recent work on end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) has shown that the connectionist temporal classification (CTC) loss can be used to convert acoustics to phone or character sequences. Such systems are used with a dictionary and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Kartik Audhkhasi , Bhuvana Ramabhadran , George Saon , Michael Picheny , David Nahamoo

One of the most difficult speech recognition tasks is accurate recognition of human to human communication. Advances in deep learning over the last few years have produced major speech recognition improvements on the representative…

Accurately detecting voiced intervals in speech signals is a critical step in pitch tracking and has numerous applications. While conventional signal processing methods and deep learning algorithms have been proposed for this task, their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Yixuan Zhang , Heming Wang , DeLiang Wang

Deep learning is still not a very common tool in speaker verification field. We study deep convolutional neural network performance in the text-prompted speaker verification task. The prompted passphrase is segmented into word states - i.e.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-15 Sergey Novoselov , Oleg Kudashev , Vadim Schemelinin , Ivan Kremnev , Galina Lavrentyeva

We study multi-task learning for two orthogonal speech technology tasks: speech and speaker recognition. We use wav2vec2 as a base architecture with two task-specific output heads. We experiment with different architectural decisions to mix…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Nik Vaessen , David A. van Leeuwen

In this paper we present a data-driven, integrated approach to speaker verification, which maps a test utterance and a few reference utterances directly to a single score for verification and jointly optimizes the system's components using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Georg Heigold , Ignacio Moreno , Samy Bengio , Noam Shazeer

Self-supervised learning approaches have lately achieved great success on a broad spectrum of machine learning problems. In the field of speech processing, one of the most successful recent self-supervised models is wav2vec 2.0. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Marie Kunešová , Zbyněk Zajíc

This paper presents the SJTU system for both text-dependent and text-independent tasks in short-duration speaker verification (SdSV) challenge 2021. In this challenge, we explored different strong embedding extractors to extract robust…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Bing Han , Zhengyang Chen , Zhikai Zhou , Yanmin Qian

Keyword wakeup technology has always been a research hotspot in speech processing, but many related works were done on different datasets. We organized a Chinese long-short video keyword wakeup challenge (Video Keyword Wakeup Challenge,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yougen Yuan , Zhiqiang Lv , Shen Huang , Pengfei Hu

This report describes the systems submitted to the first and second tracks of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge (VoxSRC) 2020, which ranked second in both tracks. Three key points of the system pipeline are explored: (1)…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Xu Xiang

LPCNet is an efficient vocoder that combines linear prediction and deep neural network modules to keep the computational complexity low. In this work, we present two techniques to further reduce it's complexity, aiming for a low-cost LPCNet…

The first voice timbre attribute detection challenge is featured in a special session at NCMMSC 2025. It focuses on the explainability of voice timbre and compares the intensity of two speech utterances in a specified timbre descriptor…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Liping Chen , Jinghao He , Zhengyan Sheng , Kong Aik Lee , Zhen-Hua Ling

The goal of this work is to train effective representations for keyword spotting via metric learning. Most existing works address keyword spotting as a closed-set classification problem, where both target and non-target keywords are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Jaesung Huh , Minjae Lee , Heesoo Heo , Seongkyu Mun , Joon Son Chung