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This paper presents our contribution to the 3rd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge. Our system uses Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM) Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for Single-channel Speech Enhancement (SSE).…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Amr El-Desoky Mousa , Erik Marchi , Björn Schuller

Recently, end-to-end models have become a popular approach as an alternative to traditional hybrid models in automatic speech recognition (ASR). The multi-speaker speech separation and recognition task is a central task in cocktail party…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Xuankai Chang , Yanmin Qian , Kai Yu , Shinji Watanabe

Despite the tremendous success of automatic speech recognition (ASR) with the introduction of deep learning, its performance is still unsatisfactory in many real-world multi-talker scenarios. Speaker separation excels in separating…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yufeng Yang , Hassan Taherian , Vahid Ahmadi Kalkhorani , DeLiang Wang

The goal of this paper is speech separation and enhancement in multi-speaker and noisy environments using a combination of different modalities. Previous works have shown good performance when conditioning on temporal or static visual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Akam Rahimi , Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Zisserman

Monaural speech dereverberation is a very challenging task because no spatial cues can be used. When the additive noises exist, this task becomes more challenging. In this paper, we propose a joint training method for simultaneous speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Cunhang Fan , Jianhua Tao , Bin Liu , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen

Conventional far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems typically employ microphone array techniques for speech enhancement in order to improve robustness against noise or reverberation. However, such speech enhancement techniques…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-23 Minhua Wu , Kenichi Kumatani , Shiva Sundaram , Nikko Strom , Bjorn Hoffmeister

Although great progresses have been made in automatic speech recognition (ASR), significant performance degradation is still observed when recognizing multi-talker mixed speech. In this paper, we propose and evaluate several architectures…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yanmin Qian , Xuankai Chang , Dong Yu

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) is crucial for many real-world applications, but it requires dedicated modeling techniques. Existing approaches can be divided into modular and end-to-end methods. Modular approaches separate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Simon Berger , Peter Vieting , Christoph Boeddeker , Ralf Schlüter , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

This paper presents a joint source separation algorithm that simultaneously reduces acoustic echo, reverberation and interfering sources. Target speeches are separated from the mixture by maximizing independence with respect to the other…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Yueyue Na , Ziteng Wang , Zhang Liu , Biao Tian , Qiang Fu

Target speech separation refers to extracting the target speaker's speech from mixed signals. Despite the recent advances in deep learning based close-talk speech separation, the applications to real-world are still an open issue. Two main…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Rongzhi Gu , Yuexian Zou

The integration of visual cues has revitalized the performance of the target speech extraction task, elevating it to the forefront of the field. Nevertheless, this multi-modal learning paradigm often encounters the challenge of modality…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) system is thought to be one of the most promising solutions for robust speech recognition, especially in noisy environment. In this paper, we propose a novel multimodal attention based method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Pan Zhou , Wenwen Yang , Wei Chen , Yanfeng Wang , Jia Jia

We introduce a new approach for audio-visual speech separation. Given a video, the goal is to extract the speech associated with a face in spite of simultaneous background sounds and/or other human speakers. Whereas existing methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Ruohan Gao , Kristen Grauman

In this paper we propose a multi-modal multi-correlation learning framework targeting at the task of audio-visual speech separation. Although previous efforts have been extensively put on combining audio and visual modalities, most of them…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xiaoyu Wang , Xiangyu Kong , Xiulian Peng , Yan Lu

We present a frontend for improving robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR), that jointly implements three modules within a single model: acoustic echo cancellation, speech enhancement, and speech separation. This is achieved by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Tom O'Malley , Arun Narayanan , Quan Wang , Alex Park , James Walker , Nathan Howard

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) offers a robust solution for speech recognition in challenging environments, such as cocktail-party scenarios, where relying solely on audio proves insufficient. However, current AVSR models are often…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Thai-Binh Nguyen , Ngoc-Quan Pham , Alexander Waibel

This paper describes an audio-visual speech enhancement (AV-SE) method that estimates from noisy input audio a mixture of the speech of the speaker appearing in an input video (on-screen target speech) and of a selected speaker not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Tomoya Yoshinaga , Keitaro Tanaka , Shigeo Morishima

Multi-speaker speech recognition of unsegmented recordings has diverse applications such as meeting transcription and automatic subtitle generation. With technical advances in systems dealing with speech separation, speaker diarization, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Desh Raj , Pavel Denisov , Zhuo Chen , Hakan Erdogan , Zili Huang , Maokui He , Shinji Watanabe , Jun Du , Takuya Yoshioka , Yi Luo , Naoyuki Kanda , Jinyu Li , Scott Wisdom , John R. Hershey

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) of multi-channel multi-speaker overlapped speech remains one of the most challenging tasks to the speech community. In this paper, we look into this challenge by utilizing the location information of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yiwen Shao , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

When dealing with overlapped speech, the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems substantially degrades as they are designed for single-talker speech. To enhance ASR performance in conversational or meeting environments,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Hassan Taherian , DeLiang Wang