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This paper is concerned with the task of speaker verification on audio with multiple overlapping speakers. Most speaker verification systems are designed with the assumption of a single speaker being present in a given audio segment.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Jenthe Thienpondt , Nilesh Madhu , Kris Demuynck

We describe a neural network-based system for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis that is able to generate speech audio in the voice of many different speakers, including those unseen during training. Our system consists of three independently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Ye Jia , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Quan Wang , Jonathan Shen , Fei Ren , Zhifeng Chen , Patrick Nguyen , Ruoming Pang , Ignacio Lopez Moreno , Yonghui Wu

In this paper we demonstrate that performance of a speaker verification system can be improved by concatenating electroencephalography (EEG) signal features with speech signal features or only using EEG signal features. We use…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Yan Han , Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Ahmed H Tewfik

Initially developed for natural language processing (NLP), Transformer model is now widely used for speech processing tasks such as speaker recognition, due to its powerful sequence modeling capabilities. However, conventional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-28 Rui Wang , Junyi Ao , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Zhihua Wei , Tom Ko , Qing Li , Yu Zhang

In this work, we explore the dependencies between speaker recognition and emotion recognition. We first show that knowledge learned for speaker recognition can be reused for emotion recognition through transfer learning. Then, we show the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Raghavendra Pappagari , Tianzi Wang , Jesus Villalba , Nanxin Chen , Najim Dehak

Data augmentation is conventionally used to inject robustness in Speaker Verification systems. Several recently organized challenges focus on handling novel acoustic environments. Deep learning based speech enhancement is a modern solution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Saurabh Kataria , Phani Sankar Nidadavolu , Jesús Villalba , Najim Dehak

While the use of deep neural networks has significantly boosted speaker recognition performance, it is still challenging to separate speakers in poor acoustic environments. To improve robustness of speaker recognition system performance in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Household speaker identification with few enrollment utterances is an important yet challenging problem, especially when household members share similar voice characteristics and room acoustics. A common embedding space learned from a large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Kishan K C , Zhenning Tan , Long Chen , Minho Jin , Eunjung Han , Andreas Stolcke , Chul Lee

Zero-shot multi-speaker Text-to-Speech (TTS) generates target speaker voices given an input text and the corresponding speaker embedding. In this work, we investigate the effectiveness of the TTS reconstruction objective to improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Jaejin Cho , Piotr Zelasko , Jesus Villalba , Shinji Watanabe , Najim Dehak

In scenarios where multiple speakers talk at the same time, it is important to be able to identify the talkers accurately. This paper presents an end-to-end system that integrates speech source extraction and speaker identification, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Junzhe Zhu , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Leda Sari

In cross-lingual speech synthesis, the speech in various languages can be synthesized for a monoglot speaker. Normally, only the data of monoglot speakers are available for model training, thus the speaker similarity is relatively low…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-21 J. Yang , Lei He

Speaker verification is the process by which a speakers claim of identity is tested against a claimed speaker by his or her voice. Speaker verification is done by the use of some parameters (features) from the speakers voice which can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Bhavana V. S , Pradip K. Das

In this paper, we focus on improving the performance of the text-dependent speaker verification system in the scenario of limited training data. The speaker verification system deep learning based text-dependent generally needs a large…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xiaoyi Qin , Yaogen Yang , Lin Yang , Xuyang Wang , Junjie Wang , Ming Li

An automatic speaker verification system aims to verify the speaker identity of a speech signal. However, a voice conversion system could manipulate a person's speech signal to make it sound like another speaker's voice and deceive the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Danwei Cai , Zexin Cai , Ming Li

The few-shot multi-speaker multi-style voice cloning task is to synthesize utterances with voice and speaking style similar to a reference speaker given only a few reference samples. In this work, we investigate different speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Chung-Ming Chien , Jheng-Hao Lin , Chien-yu Huang , Po-chun Hsu , Hung-yi Lee

This paper presents an end-to-end text-independent speaker verification framework by jointly considering the speaker embedding (SE) network and automatic speech recognition (ASR) network. The SE network learns to output an embedding vector…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Sungrack Yun , Janghoon Cho , Jungyun Eum , Wonil Chang , Kyuwoong Hwang

Speaker recognition systems based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are often built with off-the-shelf backbones such as VGG-Net or ResNet. However, these backbones were originally proposed for image classification, and therefore may…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Shaojin Ding , Tianlong Chen , Xinyu Gong , Weiwei Zha , Zhangyang Wang

In forensic applications, it is very common that only small naturalistic datasets consisting of short utterances in complex or unknown acoustic environments are available. In this study, we propose a pipeline solution to improve speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Mufan Sang , Wei Xia , John H. L. Hansen

Creating universal speaker encoders which are robust for different acoustic and speech duration conditions is a big challenge today. According to our observations systems trained on short speech segments are optimal for short phrase speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Sergey Novoselov , Vladimir Volokhov , Galina Lavrentyeva

Speaker embeddings become growing popular in the text-independent speaker verification task. In this paper, we propose two improvements during the training stage. The improvements are both based on triplet cause the training stage and the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Zongze Ren , Zhiyong Chen , Shugong Xu