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We propose a speech enhancement system that combines speaker-agnostic speech restoration with voice conversion (VC) to obtain a studio-level quality speech signal. While voice conversion models are typically used to change speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Kyungguen Byun , Jason Filos , Erik Visser , Sunkuk Moon

This paper presents our recent effort on end-to-end speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition, which jointly performs speaker counting, speech recognition and speaker identification for monaural multi-talker audio. Firstly, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Naoyuki Kanda , Guoli Ye , Yashesh Gaur , Xiaofei Wang , Zhong Meng , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka

Late reverberation involves the superposition of many sound reflections resulting in a diffuse sound field. Since the spatially resolved perception of individual diffuse reflections is impossible, simplifications can potentially be made for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-01 Christoph Kirsch , Josef Poppitz , Torben Wendt , Steven van de Par , Stephan D. Ewert

Multi-speaker speech recognition has been one of the keychallenges in conversation transcription as it breaks the singleactive speaker assumption employed by most state-of-the-artspeech recognition systems. Speech separation is consideredas…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Jian Wu , Zhuo Chen , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka , Zhili Tan , Ed Lin , Yi Luo , Lei Xie

In this work we introduce a semi-supervised approach to the voice conversion problem, in which speech from a source speaker is converted into speech of a target speaker. The proposed method makes use of both parallel and non-parallel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-02 Cory Stephenson , Gokce Keskin , Anil Thomas , Oguz H. Elibol

Audio-driven facial reenactment is a crucial technique that has a range of applications in film-making, virtual avatars and video conferences. Existing works either employ explicit intermediate face representations (e.g., 2D facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Ricong Huang , Peiwen Lai , Yipeng Qin , Guanbin Li

Disentangling speaker and content attributes of a speech signal into separate latent representations followed by decoding the content with an exchanged speaker representation is a popular approach for voice conversion, which can be trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Michael Kuhlmann , Fritz Seebauer , Janek Ebbers , Petra Wagner , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

This paper presents an adversarial learning method for recognition-synthesis based non-parallel voice conversion. A recognizer is used to transform acoustic features into linguistic representations while a synthesizer recovers output…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Rong Dai

This paper addresses the problem of single-channel speech separation, where the number of speakers is unknown, and each speaker may speak multiple utterances. We propose a speech separation model that simultaneously performs separation,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Yuzhu Wang , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

Discrete audio representation, aka audio tokenization, has seen renewed interest driven by its potential to facilitate the application of text language modeling approaches in audio domain. To this end, various compression and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Krishna C. Puvvada , Nithin Rao Koluguri , Kunal Dhawan , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

This paper introduces a novel framework for open-set speaker identification in household environments, playing a crucial role in facilitating seamless human-computer interactions. Addressing the limitations of current speaker models and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Zhiyong Chen , Zhiqi Ai , Xinnuo Li , Shugong Xu

Voice Conversion (VC) aims to modify a speaker's timbre while preserving linguistic content. While recent VC models achieve strong performance, most struggle in real-time streaming scenarios due to high latency, dependence on ASR modules,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zhao Guo , Ziqian Ning , Guobin Ma , Lei Xie

An utterance-level speaker embedding is typically obtained by aggregating a sequence of frame-level representations. However, in real-world scenarios, individual frames encode not only speaker-relevant information but also various nuisance…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Junjie Li , Kong Aik Lee

Single-channel speech enhancement is utilized in various tasks to mitigate the effect of interfering signals. Conventionally, to ensure the speech enhancement performs optimally, the speech enhancement has needed to be tuned for each task.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takafumi Moriya , Takanori Ashihara , Ryo Masumura

This Paper discusses the usefulness of the residual signal for speaker recognition. It is shown that the combination of both a measure defined over LPCC coefficients and a measure defined over the energy of the residual signal gives rise to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Marcos Faundez-Zanuy , Daniel Rodríguez-Porcheron

In this paper, we propose an effective training strategy to ex-tract robust speaker representations from a speech signal. Oneof the key challenges in speaker recognition tasks is to learnlatent representations or embeddings containing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Yoohwan Kwon , Soo-Whan Chung , Hong-Goo Kang

Studies have shown that in noisy acoustic environments, providing binaural signals to the user of an assistive listening device may improve speech intelligibility and spatial awareness. This paper presents a binaural speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Vikas Tokala , Eric Grinstein , Mike Brookes , Simon Doclo , Jesper Jensen , Patrick A. Naylor

In the existing cross-speaker style transfer task, a source speaker with multi-style recordings is necessary to provide the style for a target speaker. However, it is hard for one speaker to express all expected styles. In this paper, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-24 Qicong Xie , Tao Li , Xinsheng Wang , Zhichao Wang , Lei Xie , Guoqiao Yu , Guanglu Wan

Recent advancements in deep learning led to human-level performance in single-speaker speech synthesis. However, there are still limitations in terms of speech quality when generalizing those systems into multiple-speaker models especially…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Dipjyoti Paul , Yannis Pantazis , Yannis Stylianou

Our objective is an audio-visual model for separating a single speaker from a mixture of sounds such as other speakers and background noise. Moreover, we wish to hear the speaker even when the visual cues are temporarily absent due to…

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