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Our prior experiments show that humans and machines seem to employ different approaches to speaker discrimination, especially in the presence of speaking style variability. The experiments examined read versus conversational speech.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Amber Afshan , Abeer Alwan

High quality labeled datasets have allowed deep learning to achieve impressive results on many sound analysis tasks. Yet, it is labor-intensive to accurately annotate large amount of audio data, and the dataset may contain noisy labels in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Boqing Zhu , Kele Xu , Qiuqiang Kong , Huaimin Wang , Yuxing Peng

In this paper, we present the XMUSPEECH system for Task 1 of 2020 Personalized Voice Trigger Challenge (PVTC2020). Task 1 is a joint wake-up word detection with speaker verification on close talking data. The whole system consists of a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-01 Dexin Liao , Jing Li , Yiming Zhi , Song Li , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li

Speaker Change Detection (SCD) is to identify boundaries among speakers in a conversation. Motivated by the success of fine-tuning wav2vec 2.0 models for the SCD task, a further investigation of self-supervised learning (SSL) features for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Yue Li , Xinsheng Wang , Li Zhang , Lei Xie

Applying x-vectors for speaker verification has recently attracted great interest, with the focus being on text-independent speaker verification. In this paper, we study x-vectors for text-dependent speaker verification (TD-SV), which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Achintya Kumar Sarkar , Zheng-Hua Tan

The automatic speaker verification spoofing (ASVspoof) challenge series is crucial for enhancing the spoofing consideration and the countermeasures growth. Although the recent ASVspoof 2019 validation results indicate the significant…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Chenlei Hu , Ruohua Zhou

The efficient utilization of wind power by wind turbines relies on the ability of their pitch systems to adjust blade pitch angles in response to varying wind speeds. However, the presence of multiple health conditions in the pitch system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Zixuan Wang , Bo Qin , Mengxuan Li , Chenlu Zhan , Mark D. Butala , Peng Peng , Hongwei Wang

Open-set speaker recognition can be regarded as a metric learning problem, which is to maximize inter-class variance and minimize intra-class variance. Supervised metric learning can be categorized into entity-based learning and proxy-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jiachen Lian , Aiswarya Vinod Kumar , Hira Dhamyal , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

Recently, the attention mechanism such as squeeze-and-excitation module (SE) and convolutional block attention module (CBAM) has achieved great success in deep learning-based speaker verification system. This paper introduces an alternative…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Xiaoyi Qin , Na Li , Chao Weng , Dan Su , Ming Li

Speech-aware large language models (LLMs) can accept speech inputs, yet their training objectives largely emphasize linguistic content or specific fields such as emotions or the speaker's gender, leaving it unclear whether they encode…

Contextualized ASR models have been demonstrated to effectively improve the recognition accuracy of uncommon phrases when a predefined phrase list is available. However, these models often struggle with bilingual settings, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Xucheng Wan , Naijun Zheng , Kai Liu , Huan Zhou

Growing interest in automatic speaker verification (ASV)systems has lead to significant quality improvement of spoofing attackson them. Many research works confirm that despite the low equal er-ror rate (EER) ASV systems are still…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Galina Lavrentyeva , Sergey Novoselov , Konstantin Simonchik

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) is a task that aims to generate audio signals according to musical scores and lyrics. With its multifaceted nature concerning music and language, producing singing voices indistinguishable from that of human…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Yin-Ping Cho , Fu-Rong Yang , Yung-Chuan Chang , Ching-Ting Cheng , Xiao-Han Wang , Yi-Wen Liu

Designing robust algorithms capable of training accurate neural networks on uncurated datasets from the web has been the subject of much research as it reduces the need for time consuming human labor. The focus of many previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Paul Albert , Eric Arazo , Tarun Krishna , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

Cross-lingual phoneme recognition has emerged as a significant challenge for accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) when mixing Vietnamese and English pronunciations. Unlike many languages, Vietnamese relies on tonal variations to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Nguyen Huu Nhat Minh , Tran Nguyen Anh , Truong Dinh Dung , Vo Van Nam , Le Pham Tuyen

Subjective assessment tests are often employed to evaluate image processing systems, notably image and video compression, super-resolution among others and have been used as an indisputable way to provide evidence of the performance of an…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Shima Mohammadi , Joao Ascenso

The VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenges (VoxSRC) were a series of challenges and workshops that ran annually from 2019 to 2023. The challenges primarily evaluated the tasks of speaker recognition and diarisation under various settings…

This study employs deep learning techniques to explore four speaker profiling tasks on the TIMIT dataset, namely gender classification, accent classification, age estimation, and speaker identification, highlighting the potential and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Rong Wang , Kun Sun

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

Cross-lingual text classification leverages text classifiers trained in a high-resource language to perform text classification in other languages with no or minimal fine-tuning (zero/few-shots cross-lingual transfer). Nowadays,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Gholamreza Haffari , Massimo Piccardi