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This paper describes speaker verification (SV) systems submitted by the SpeakIn team to the Task 1 and Task 2 of the Far-Field Speaker Verification Challenge 2022 (FFSVC2022). SV tasks of the challenge focus on the problem of fully…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Yu Zheng , Jinghan Peng , Yihao Chen , Yajun Zhang , Jialong Wang , Min Liu , Minqiang Xu

FFSVC2022 is the second challenge of far-field speaker verification. FFSVC2022 provides the fully-supervised far-field speaker verification to further explore the far-field scenario and proposes semi-supervised far-field speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-19 Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li , Hui Bu , Shrikanth Narayanan , Haizhou Li

The third instalment of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge was held in conjunction with Interspeech 2021. The aim of this challenge was to assess how well current speaker recognition technology is able to diarise and recognise…

We review current solutions and technical challenges for automatic speech recognition, keyword spotting, device arbitration, speech enhancement, and source localization in multidevice home environments to provide context for the INTERSPEECH…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Gregory Ciccarelli , Jarred Barber , Arun Nair , Israel Cohen , Tao Zhang

In this paper, we describe the work that we have done to participate in Task1 of the ConferencingSpeech2021 challenge. This task set a goal to develop the solution for multi-channel speech enhancement in a real-time manner. We propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Vasiliy Kuzmin , Fyodor Kravchenko , Artem Sokolov , Jie Geng

Speech clarity and spatial audio immersion are the two most critical factors in enhancing remote conferencing experiences. Existing methods are often limited: either due to the lack of spatial information when using only one microphone, or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Cheng Chi , Xiaoyu Li , Yuxuan Ke , Qunping Ni , Yao Ge , Xiaodong Li , Chengshi Zheng

Single-channel speech enhancement is utilized in various tasks to mitigate the effect of interfering signals. Conventionally, to ensure the speech enhancement performs optimally, the speech enhancement has needed to be tuned for each task.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takafumi Moriya , Takanori Ashihara , Ryo Masumura

The CHiME challenge series aims to advance robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology by promoting research at the interface of speech and language processing, signal processing , and machine learning. This paper introduces the…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Jon Barker , Shinji Watanabe , Emmanuel Vincent , Jan Trmal

For new participants - Executive summary: (1) The task is to develop a voice anonymization system for speech data which conceals the speaker's voice identity while protecting linguistic content, paralinguistic attributes, intelligibility…

We present the third edition of the VoiceMOS Challenge, a scientific initiative designed to advance research into automatic prediction of human speech ratings. There were three tracks. The first track was on predicting the quality of…

The INTERSPEECH 2020 Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge is intended to promote collaborative research in real-time single-channel Speech Enhancement aimed to maximize the subjective (perceptual) quality of the enhanced speech. A typical…

Self-supervised speech pre-training methods have developed rapidly in recent years, which show to be very effective for many near-field single-channel speech tasks. However, far-field multichannel speech processing is suffering from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Qiushi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Yu Gu , Yuchen Hu , Lirong Dai

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

Removing background noise from speech audio has been the subject of considerable effort, especially in recent years due to the rise of virtual communication and amateur recordings. Yet background noise is not the only unpleasant disturbance…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Joan Serrà , Santiago Pascual , Jordi Pons , R. Oguz Araz , Davide Scaini

In recent years, deep learning-based approaches have significantly improved the performance of single-channel speech enhancement. However, due to the limitation of training data and computational complexity, real-time enhancement of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zehua Zhang , Lu Zhang , Xuyi Zhuang , Yukun Qian , Heng Li , Mingjiang Wang

Far-field speech recognition is a challenging task that conventionally uses signal processing beamforming to attack noise and interference problem. But the performance has been found usually limited due to heavy reliance on environmental…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Dongdi Zhao , Jianbo Ma , Lu Lu , Jinke Li , Xuan Ji , Lei Zhu , Fuming Fang , Ming Liu , Feijun Jiang

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) models utilize additional cues, such as speaker embeddings like d-vectors, to remove background noise and interfering speech in real-time and thus improve the speech quality of online video conferencing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka , Huaming Wang , Xiaofei Wang , Zhuo Chen , Xuedong Huang

We propose a multi-stage framework for universal speech enhancement, designed for the Interspeech 2025 URGENT Challenge. Our system first employs a Sparse Compression Network to robustly separate sources and extract an initial clean speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Nabarun Goswami , Tatsuya Harada

The deep learning based time-domain models, e.g. Conv-TasNet, have shown great potential in both single-channel and multi-channel speech enhancement. However, many experiments on the time-domain speech enhancement model are done in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Wangyou Zhang , Jing Shi , Chenda Li , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

The performance of speaker verification systems degrades significantly under language mismatch, a critical challenge exacerbated by the field's reliance on English-centric data. To address this, we propose the TidyVoice Challenge for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Aref Farhadipour , Jan Marquenie , Srikanth Madikeri , Teodora Vukovic , Volker Dellwo , Kathy Reid , Francis M. Tyers , Ingo Siegert , Eleanor Chodroff