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This memo describes NTR-TSU submission for SIGTYP 2021 Shared Task on predicting language IDs from speech. Spoken Language Identification (LID) is an important step in a multilingual Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) system pipeline. For…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Roman Bedyakin , Nikolay Mikhaylovskiy

Accurately classifying accents and assessing accentedness in non-native speakers are both challenging tasks due to the complexity and diversity of accent and dialect variations. In this study, embeddings from advanced pre-trained language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Shahram Ghorbani , John H. L. Hansen

In this paper, we study the issue of automatic singer identification (SID) in popular music recordings, which aims to recognize who sang a given piece of song. The main challenge for this investigation lies in the fact that a singer's…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Xulong Zhang , Jiale Qian , Yi Yu , Yifu Sun , Wei Li

Pure acoustic neural models, particularly the LSTM-RNN model, have shown great potential in language identification (LID). However, the phonetic information has been largely overlooked by most of existing neural LID models, although this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Zhiyuan Tang , Dong Wang , Yixiang Chen , Ying Shi , Lantian Li

Automatic Singing Assessment and Singing Information Processing have evolved over the past three decades to support singing pedagogy, performance analysis, and vocal training. While the first approach objectively evaluates a singer's…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Arthur N. dos Santos , Bruno S. Masiero

Identifying closely related languages at sentence level is difficult, in particular because it is often impossible to assign a sentence to a single language. In this paper, we focus on multi-label sentence-level Scandinavian language…

State-of-the-art spoken language identification (LID) systems, which are based on end-to-end deep neural networks, have shown remarkable success not only in discriminating between distant languages but also between closely-related languages…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Badr M. Abdullah , Tania Avgustinova , Bernd Möbius , Dietrich Klakow

Previous approaches in singer identification have used one of monophonic vocal tracks or mixed tracks containing multiple instruments, leaving a semantic gap between these two domains of audio. In this paper, we present a system to learn a…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Kyungyun Lee , Juhan Nam

Recent advances in singing voice synthesis (SVS) have attracted substantial attention from both academia and industry. With the advent of large language models and novel generative paradigms, producing controllable, high-fidelity singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Changhao Pan , Dongyu Yao , Yu Zhang , Wenxiang Guo , Jingyu Lu , Zhiyuan Zhu , Zhou Zhao

The first step in any voice recognition software is to determine what language a speaker is using, and ideally this process would be automated. The technique described in this paper, language identification for audio spectrograms (LIFAS),…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Shauna Revay , Matthew Teschke

Detecting singing-voice in polyphonic instrumental music is critical to music information retrieval. To train a robust vocal detector, a large dataset marked with vocal or non-vocal label at frame-level is essential. However, frame-level…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Yuanbo Hou , Frank K. Soong , Jian Luan , Shengchen Li

Spoken language diarization (LD) and related tasks are mostly explored using the phonotactic approach. Phonotactic approaches mostly use explicit way of language modeling, hence requiring intermediate phoneme modeling and transcribed data.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-23 Jagabandhu Mishra , Amartya Chowdhury , S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna

Language identification (LID) is a fundamental step in curating multilingual corpora. However, LID models still perform poorly for many languages, especially on the noisy and heterogeneous web data often used to train multilingual language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Pedro Ortiz Suarez , Laurie Burchell , Catherine Arnett , Rafael Mosquera-Gómez , Sara Hincapie-Monsalve , Thom Vaughan , Damian Stewart , Malte Ostendorff , Idris Abdulmumin , Vukosi Marivate , Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad , Atnafu Lambebo Tonja , Hend Al-Khalifa , Nadia Ghezaiel Hammouda , Verrah Otiende , Tack Hwa Wong , Jakhongir Saydaliev , Melika Nobakhtian , Muhammad Ravi Shulthan Habibi , Chalamalasetti Kranti , Carol Muchemi , Khang Nguyen , Faisal Muhammad Adam , Luis Frentzen Salim , Reem Alqifari , Cynthia Amol , Joseph Marvin Imperial , Ilker Kesen , Ahmad Mustafid , Pavel Stepachev , Leshem Choshen , David Anugraha , Hamada Nayel , Seid Muhie Yimam , Vallerie Alexandra Putra , My Chiffon Nguyen , Azmine Toushik Wasi , Gouthami Vadithya , Rob van der Goot , Lanwenn ar C'horr , Karan Dua , Andrew Yates , Mithil Bangera , Yeshil Bangera , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Shu Okabe , Fenal Ashokbhai Ilasariya , Dmitry Gaynullin , Genta Indra Winata , Yiyuan Li , Juan Pablo Martínez , Amit Agarwal , Ikhlasul Akmal Hanif , Raia Abu Ahmad , Esther Adenuga , Filbert Aurelian Tjiaranata , Weerayut Buaphet , Michael Anugraha , Sowmya Vajjala , Benjamin Rice , Azril Hafizi Amirudin , Jesujoba O. Alabi , Srikant Panda , Yassine Toughrai , Bruhan Kyomuhendo , Daniel Ruffinelli , Akshata A , Manuel Goulão , Ej Zhou , Ingrid Gabriela Franco Ramirez , Cristina Aggazzotti , Konstantin Dobler , Jun Kevin , Quentin Pagès , Nicholas Andrews , Nuhu Ibrahim , Mattes Ruckdeschel , Amr Keleg , Mike Zhang , Casper Muziri , Saron Samuel , Sotaro Takeshita , Kun Kerdthaisong , Luca Foppiano , Rasul Dent , Tommaso Green , Ahmad Mustapha Wali , Kamohelo Makaaka , Vicky Feliren , Inshirah Idris , Hande Celikkanat , Abdulhamid Abubakar , Jean Maillard , Benoît Sagot , Thibault Clérice , Kenton Murray , Sarah Luger

Speech Activity Detection (SAD) systems often misclassify singing as speech, leading to degraded performance in applications such as dialogue enhancement and automatic speech recognition. We introduce Singing-Robust Speech Activity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Philipp Grundhuber , Mhd Modar Halimeh , Martin Strauß , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Multilingual speech processing with self-supervised or supervised pre-trained Speech Foundation Models (SFM) has achieved strong performance on tasks like Language Identification (LID) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). However, these…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Qingzheng Wang , Jiancheng Sun , Yifan Peng , Shinji Watanabe

Language identification (LID) is an essential step in building high-quality multilingual datasets from web data. Existing LID tools (such as OpenLID or GlotLID) often struggle to identify closely related languages and to distinguish valid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mariia Fedorova , Nikolay Arefyev , Maja Buljan , Jindřich Helcl , Stephan Oepen , Egil Rønningstad , Yves Scherrer

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) is a task that aims to generate audio signals according to musical scores and lyrics. With its multifaceted nature concerning music and language, producing singing voices indistinguishable from that of human…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Yin-Ping Cho , Fu-Rong Yang , Yung-Chuan Chang , Ching-Ting Cheng , Xiao-Han Wang , Yi-Wen Liu

Effective extraction and application of linguistic features are central to the enhancement of spoken Language IDentification (LID) performance. With the success of recent large models, such as GPT and Whisper, the potential to leverage such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Peng Shen , Xuguang Lu , Hisashi Kawai

Language Identification (LID) is a core task in multilingual NLP, yet current systems often overfit to clean, monolingual data. This work introduces DIVERS-BENCH, a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art LID models across diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jessica Ojo , Zina Kamel , David Ifeoluwa Adelani

We introduce TitaNet-LID, a compact end-to-end neural network for Spoken Language Identification (LID) that is based on the ContextNet architecture. TitaNet-LID employs 1D depth-wise separable convolutions and Squeeze-and-Excitation layers…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Fei Jia , Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg