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Audio adversarial examples are audio files that have been manipulated to fool an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, while still sounding benign to a human listener. Most methods to generate such samples are based on a two-step…
In this work, we propose a training algorithm for an audio-visual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) system using deep recurrent neural network (RNN).First, we train a deep RNN acoustic model with a Connectionist Temporal Classification…
In recent years tremendous efforts have been done to advance the state of the art for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and audio recognition. However, these efforts often translated in increased power consumption and memory requirements…
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,…
Nowadays, speech is becoming a more common, if not standard, interface to technology. This can be seen in the trend of technology changes over the years. Increasingly, voice is used to control programs, appliances and personal devices…
A "wireless fingerprint" which exploits hardware imperfections unique to each device is a potentially powerful tool for wireless security. Such a fingerprint should be able to distinguish between devices sending the same message, and should…
Audio-visual recognition (AVR) has been considered as a solution for speech recognition tasks when the audio is corrupted, as well as a visual recognition method used for speaker verification in multi-speaker scenarios. The approach of AVR…
In a multi-speaker "cocktail party" scenario, a listener can selectively attend to a speaker of interest. Studies into the human auditory attention network demonstrate cortical entrainment to speech envelopes resulting in highly correlated…
In full-duplex speech interaction systems, effective Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) is crucial for recovering echo-contaminated speech. This paper presents a neural network-based AEC solution to address challenges in mobile scenarios with…
We adopt data structure in the form of cover trees and iteratively apply approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) searches for fast compressed sensing reconstruction of signals living on discrete smooth manifolds. Levering on the recent…
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an active field of research due to its large number of applications and the proliferation of interfaces or computing devices that can support speech processing. However, the bulk of applications are…
We present a new method to capture the acoustic characteristics of real-world rooms using commodity devices, and use the captured characteristics to generate similar sounding sources with virtual models. Given the captured audio and an…
Big data applications involving the analysis of large datasets becomes a critical part of many emerging paradigms such as smart cities, social networks and modern security systems. Cloud computing has developed as a mainstream for hosting…
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are used in the financial domain to enhance the caller experience by enabling natural language understanding and facilitating efficient and intuitive interactions. Increasing use of ASR systems…
In this work, we propose small footprint Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network models applied to the problem of wakeword detection and augment them with scaled dot product attention. We find that false accepts compared to Convolutional…
Audio Event Detection is an important task for content analysis of multimedia data. Most of the current works on detection of audio events is driven through supervised learning approaches. We propose a weakly supervised learning framework…