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Speaker identification in multilingual settings presents unique challenges, particularly when conventional models are predominantly trained on English data. In this paper, we propose WSI (Whisper Speaker Identification), a framework that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jakaria Islam Emon , Md Abu Salek , Kazi Tamanna Alam

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

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

The advent of learning-based methods in speech enhancement has revived the need for robust and reliable training features that can compactly represent speech signals while preserving their vital information. Time-frequency domain features,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Farnood Faraji , Yazid Attabi , Benoit Champagne , Wei-Ping Zhu

In this work, we introduce a multi-task transformer for speech deepfake detection, capable of predicting formant trajectories and voicing patterns over time, ultimately classifying speech as real or fake, and highlighting whether its…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Viola Negroni , Luca Cuccovillo , Paolo Bestagini , Patrick Aichroth , Stefano Tubaro

Dysarthric speech recognition faces challenges from severity variations and disparities relative to normal speech. Conventional approaches individually fine-tune ASR models pre-trained on normal speech per patient to prevent feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Qing Xiao , Yingshan Peng , PeiPei Zhang

Target-speaker speech processing (TS) tasks, such as target-speaker automatic speech recognition (TS-ASR), target speech extraction (TSE), and personal voice activity detection (p-VAD), are important for extracting information about a…

Speaker verification is an established yet challenging task in speech processing and a very vibrant research area. Recent speaker verification (SV) systems rely on deep neural networks to extract high-level embeddings which are able to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Fei Tao , Gokhan Tur

LSTM-based speaker verification usually uses a fixed-length local segment randomly truncated from an utterance to learn the utterance-level speaker embedding, while using the average embedding of all segments of a test utterance to verify…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-05 Bin Liu , Shuai Nie , Yaping Zhang , Shan Liang , Wenju Liu

Multichannel processing is widely used for speech enhancement but several limitations appear when trying to deploy these solutions to the real-world. Distributed sensor arrays that consider several devices with a few microphones is a viable…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Nicolas Furnon , Romain Serizel , Irina Illina , Slim Essid

Non-autoregressive (NAR) models have achieved a large inference computation reduction and comparable results with autoregressive (AR) models on various sequence to sequence tasks. However, there has been limited research aiming to explore…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Pengcheng Guo , Xuankai Chang , Shinji Watanabe , Lei Xie

Recent advancements in Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have enabled the generation of natural and expressive speech from textual input. Accented TTS aims to enhance user experience by making the synthesized speech more relatable to minority…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Jan Melechovsky , Ambuj Mehrish , Berrak Sisman , Dorien Herremans

Verbatim transcription for automatic speaking assessment demands accurate capture of disfluencies, crucial for downstream tasks like error analysis and feedback. However, many ASR systems discard or generalize hesitations, losing important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jhen-Ke Lin , Hao-Chien Lu , Chung-Chun Wang , Hong-Yun Lin , Berlin Chen

Many existing speaker verification systems are reported to be vulnerable against different spoofing attacks, for example speaker-adapted speech synthesis, voice conversion, play back, etc. In order to detect these spoofed speech signals as…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Shitao Weng , Shushan Chen , Lei Yu , Xuewei Wu , Weicheng Cai , Zhi Liu , Ming Li

Identifying multiple speakers without knowing where a speaker's voice is in a recording is a challenging task. This paper proposes a hierarchical network with transformer encoders and memory mechanism to address this problem. The proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yanpei Shi , Mingjie Chen , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Active speaker detection is a challenging task in audio-visual scenario understanding, which aims to detect who is speaking in one or more speakers scenarios. This task has received extensive attention as it is crucial in applications such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Junhua Liao , Haihan Duan , Kanghui Feng , Wanbing Zhao , Yanbing Yang , Liangyin Chen

This paper proposes a deep denoising auto-encoder technique to extract better acoustic features for speech synthesis. The technique allows us to automatically extract low-dimensional features from high dimensional spectral features in a…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Zhenzhou Wu , Shinji Takaki , Junichi Yamagishi

With the rapid development of speech synthesis and voice conversion technologies, Audio Deepfake has become a serious threat to the Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) system. Numerous countermeasures are proposed to detect this type of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Yinlin Guo , Haofan Huang , Xi Chen , He Zhao , Yuehai Wang

Due to the successful application of deep learning, audio spoofing detection has made significant progress. Spoofed audio with speech synthesis or voice conversion can be well detected by many countermeasures. However, an automatic speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Lian Huang , Chi-Man Pun

Traditional speech separation and speaker diarization approaches rely on prior knowledge of target speakers or a predetermined number of participants in audio signals. To address these limitations, recent advances focus on developing…