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Previous work has established that a person's demographics and speech style affect how well speech processing models perform for them. But where does this bias come from? In this work, we present the Speech Embedding Association Test…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Isaac Slaughter , Craig Greenberg , Reva Schwartz , Aylin Caliskan

The human voice conveys unique characteristics of an individual, making voice biometrics a key technology for verifying identities in various industries. Despite the impressive progress of speaker recognition systems in terms of accuracy, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Gianni Fenu , Giacomo Medda , Mirko Marras , Giacomo Meloni

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems promise to deliver objective interpretation of human speech. Practice and recent evidence suggests that the state-of-the-art (SotA) ASRs struggle with the large variation in speech due to e.g.,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Siyuan Feng , Olya Kudina , Bence Mark Halpern , Odette Scharenborg

The objective of this paper is speaker recognition under noisy and unconstrained conditions. We make two key contributions. First, we introduce a very large-scale audio-visual speaker recognition dataset collected from open-source media.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Joon Son Chung , Arsha Nagrani , Andrew Zisserman

In speech technologies, speaker's voice representation is used in many applications such as speech recognition, voice conversion, speech synthesis and, obviously, user authentication. Modern vocal representations of the speaker are based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Paul-Gauthier Noé , Mohammad Mohammadamini , Driss Matrouf , Titouan Parcollet , Andreas Nautsch , Jean-François Bonastre

The audio data is increasing day by day throughout the globe with the increase of telephonic conversations, video conferences and voice messages. This research provides a mechanism for identifying a speaker in an audio file, based on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Syeda Rabia Arshad , Syed Mujtaba Haider , Abdul Basit Mughal

Under noisy conditions, automatic speech recognition (ASR) can greatly benefit from the addition of visual signals coming from a video of the speaker's face. However, when multiple candidate speakers are visible this traditionally requires…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Otavio Braga , Olivier Siohan

Speaker recognition technology is applied to various tasks, from personal virtual assistants to secure access systems. However, the robustness of these systems against adversarial attacks, particularly to additive perturbations, remains a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Dmitrii Korzh , Elvir Karimov , Mikhail Pautov , Oleg Y. Rogov , Ivan Oseledets

Speaker recognition is a task of identifying persons from their voices. Recently, deep learning has dramatically revolutionized speaker recognition. However, there is lack of comprehensive reviews on the exciting progress. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Zhongxin Bai , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Gender-based violence is a pervasive public health issue that severely impacts women's mental health, often leading to conditions such as in anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse. Identifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Emma Reyner-Fuentes , Esther Rituerto-Gonzalez , Carmen Pelaez-Moreno

Speech and speaker recognition systems are employed in a variety of applications, from personal assistants to telephony surveillance and biometric authentication. The wide deployment of these systems has been made possible by the improved…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Hadi Abdullah , Kevin Warren , Vincent Bindschaedler , Nicolas Papernot , Patrick Traynor

In recent years, speaker recognition systems based on raw waveform inputs have received increasing attention. However, the performance of such systems are typically inferior to the state-of-the-art handcrafted feature-based counterparts,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Jee-weon Jung , You Jin Kim , Hee-Soo Heo , Bong-Jin Lee , Youngki Kwon , Joon Son Chung

Voice assistants, such as smart speakers, have exploded in popularity. It is currently estimated that the smart speaker adoption rate has exceeded 35% in the US adult population. Manufacturers have integrated speaker identification…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Quchen Fu , Zhongwei Teng , Jules White , Maria Powell , Douglas C. Schmidt

Machine learned models exhibit bias, often because the datasets used to train them are biased. This presents a serious problem for the deployment of such technology, as the resulting models might perform poorly on populations that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Daniel McDuff , Roger Cheng , Ashish Kapoor

Speech is the fundamental means of communication between humans. The advent of AI and sophisticated speech technologies have led to the rapid proliferation of human-to-computer-based interactions, fueled primarily by Automatic Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Mikel K. Ngueajio , Gloria Washington

This paper introduces VoxSim, a dataset of perceptual voice similarity ratings. Recent efforts to automate the assessment of speech synthesis technologies have primarily focused on predicting mean opinion score of naturalness, leaving…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-29 Junseok Ahn , Youkyum Kim , Yeunju Choi , Doyeop Kwak , Ji-Hoon Kim , Seongkyu Mun , Joon Son Chung

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

Audio-visual automatic speech recognition is a promising approach to robust ASR under noisy conditions. However, up until recently it had been traditionally studied in isolation assuming the video of a single speaking face matches the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-13 Otavio Braga , Olivier Siohan

This paper proposes a fully explainable approach to speaker verification (SV), a task that fundamentally relies on individual speaker characteristics. The opaque use of speaker attributes in current SV systems raises concerns of trust.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Xiaoliang Wu , Chau Luu , Peter Bell , Ajitha Rajan

Modern speaker recognition system relies on abundant and balanced datasets for classification training. However, diverse defective datasets, such as partially-labelled, small-scale, and imbalanced datasets, are common in real-world…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Ruijie Tao , Zhan Shi , Yidi Jiang , Tianchi Liu , Haizhou Li