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In recommender systems, models mostly use a combination of embedding layers and multilayer feedforward neural networks. The high-dimensional sparse original features are downscaled in the embedding layer and then fed into the fully…

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This paper proposes a novel online speaker diarization algorithm based on a fully supervised self-attention mechanism (SA-EEND). Online diarization inherently presents a speaker's permutation problem due to the possibility to assign speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Yawen Xue , Shota Horiguchi , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Kenji Nagamatsu

Transformer-based models excel in speech recognition. Existing efforts to optimize Transformer inference, typically for long-context applications, center on simplifying attention score calculations. However, streaming speech recognition…

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The recently proposed self-attentive pooling (SAP) has shown good performance in several speaker recognition systems. In SAP systems, the context vector is trained end-to-end together with the feature extractor, where the role of context…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Seong Min Kye , Joon Son Chung , Hoirin Kim

Personalizing text-to-image models to generate images of specific subjects across diverse scenes and styles is a rapidly advancing field. Current approaches often face challenges in maintaining a balance between identity preservation and…

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Target speaker extraction aims to isolate a specific speaker's voice from a composite of multiple sound sources, guided by an enrollment utterance or called anchor. Current methods predominantly derive speaker embeddings from the anchor and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Shulin He , Huaiwen Zhang , Wei Rao , Kanghao Zhang , Yukai Ju , Yang Yang , Xueliang Zhang

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) using multiple microphone arrays has achieved great success in the far-field robustness. Taking advantage of all the information that each array shares and contributes is crucial in this task. Motivated by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Xiaofei Wang , Ruizhi Li , Sri Harish Mallid , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe , Hynek Hermansky

One-shot voice conversion has received significant attention since only one utterance from source speaker and target speaker respectively is required. Moreover, source speaker and target speaker do not need to be seen during training.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Hongqiang Du , Lei Xie

Speaker verification, as a biometric authentication mechanism, has been widely used due to the pervasiveness of voice control on smart devices. However, the task of "in-the-wild" speaker verification is still challenging, considering the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Jianwei Tai , Xiaoqi Jia , Qingjia Huang , Weijuan Zhang , Haichao Du , Shengzhi Zhang

Target speaker information can be utilized in speech enhancement (SE) models to more effectively extract the desired speech. Previous works introduce the speaker embedding into speech enhancement models by means of concatenation or affine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Xiaohuai Le , Li Chen , Chao He , Yiqing Guo , Cheng Chen , Xianjun Xia , Jing Lu

Integration of multiple microphone data is one of the key ways to achieve robust speech recognition in noisy environments or when the speaker is located at some distance from the input device. Signal processing techniques such as…

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The classical i-vectors and the latest end-to-end deep speaker embeddings are the two representative categories of utterance-level representations in automatic speaker verification systems. Traditionally, once i-vectors or deep speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-12 Weicheng Cai , Jinkun Chen , Ming Li

In this paper, we seek solutions for reducing the computation complexity of transformer-based models for speech representation learning. We evaluate 10 attention algorithms; then, we pre-train the transformer-based model with those…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Tsung-Han Wu , Chun-Chen Hsieh , Yen-Hao Chen , Po-Han Chi , Hung-yi Lee

As an important part of speech recognition technology, automatic speech keyword recognition has been intensively studied in recent years. Such technology becomes especially pivotal under situations with limited infrastructures and…

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In this work, we propose a novel self-attention based neural network for robust multi-speaker localization from Ambisonics recordings. Starting from a state-of-the-art convolutional recurrent neural network, we investigate the benefit of…

We propose an interpretable Batch-EM Unfolded Network for robust speaker localization. By embedding the iterative EM procedure within an encoder-EM-decoder architecture, the method mitigates initialization sensitivity and improves…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Rina Veler , Sharon Gannot

Recent speaker diarisation systems often convert variable length speech segments into fixed-length vector representations for speaker clustering, which are known as speaker embeddings. In this paper, the content-aware speaker embeddings…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-15 G. Sun , D. Liu , C. Zhang , P. C. Woodland

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a key role in advancing human-computer interaction. Attention mechanisms have become the dominant approach for modeling emotional speech due to their ability to capture long-range dependencies and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Marc Casals-Salvador , Federico Costa , Rodolfo Zevallos , Javier Hernando

The Transformer has shown impressive performance in automatic speech recognition. It uses the encoder-decoder structure with self-attention to learn the relationship between the high-level representation of the source inputs and embedding…

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