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Speech clarity and spatial audio immersion are the two most critical factors in enhancing remote conferencing experiences. Existing methods are often limited: either due to the lack of spatial information when using only one microphone, or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Cheng Chi , Xiaoyu Li , Yuxuan Ke , Qunping Ni , Yao Ge , Xiaodong Li , Chengshi Zheng

The primary goal of the L3DAS23 Signal Processing Grand Challenge at ICASSP 2023 is to promote and support collaborative research on machine learning for 3D audio signal processing, with a specific emphasis on 3D speech enhancement and 3D…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Christian Marinoni , Riccardo Fosco Gramaccioni , Changan Chen , Aurelio Uncini , Danilo Comminiello

Recently, speech enhancement technologies that are based on deep learning have received considerable research attention. If the spatial information in microphone signals is exploited, microphone arrays can be advantageous under some adverse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Yicheng Hsu , Yonghan Lee , Mingsian R. Bai

This paper presents the details of our system designed for the Task 1 of Multimodal Information Based Speech Processing (MISP) Challenge 2021. The purpose of Task 1 is to leverage both audio and video information to improve the…

We propose a spatial diffuseness feature for deep neural network (DNN)-based automatic speech recognition to improve recognition accuracy in reverberant and noisy environments. The feature is computed in real-time from multiple microphone…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Andreas Schwarz , Christian Huemmer , Roland Maas , Walter Kellermann

This paper delves into the challenging task of Active Speaker Detection (ASD), where the system needs to determine in real-time whether a person is speaking or not in a series of video frames. While previous works have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Arnav Kundu , Yanzi Jin , Mohammad Sekhavat , Max Horton , Danny Tormoen , Devang Naik

This paper presents our system for the MISP-Meeting Challenge Track 2. The primary difficulty lies in the dataset, which contains strong background noise, reverberation, overlapping speech, and diverse meeting topics. To address these…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Longjie Luo , Shenghui Lu , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

We propose multi-microphone complex spectral mapping, a simple way of applying deep learning for time-varying non-linear beamforming, for speaker separation in reverberant conditions. We aim at both speaker separation and dereverberation.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Peidong Wang , DeLiang Wang

Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) in multi-party meeting scenarios is one of the most valuable and challenging ASR task. It was shown that single-channel frame-level diarization with serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Mohan Shi , Jie Zhang , Zhihao Du , Fan Yu , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Li-Rong Dai

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (MS-ASR) faces significant challenges in transcribing overlapped speech, a task critical for applications like meeting transcription and conversational analysis. While serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Yuke Lin , Ming Cheng , Ze Li , Beilong Tang , Ming Li

Spatial information is a critical clue for multi-channel multi-speaker target speech recognition. Most state-of-the-art multi-channel Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems extract spatial features only during the speech separation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Yiwen Shao , Yong Xu , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Dong Yu

This paper describes a spatial-aware speaker diarization system for the multi-channel multi-party meeting. The diarization system obtains direction information of speaker by microphone array. Speaker spatial embedding is generated by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jie Wang , Yuji Liu , Binling Wang , Yiming Zhi , Song Li , Shipeng Xia , Jiayang Zhang , Feng Tong , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

In real-life applications, the performance of speaker recognition systems always degrades when there is a mismatch between training and evaluation data. Many domain adaptation methods have been successfully used for eliminating the domain…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Qing Wang , Wei Rao , Pengcheng Guo , Lei Xie

Accurate recognition of cocktail party speech containing overlapping speakers, noise and reverberation remains a highly challenging task to date. Motivated by the invariance of visual modality to acoustic signal corruption, an audio-visual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-07 Guinan Li , Jiajun Deng , Mengzhe Geng , Zengrui Jin , Tianzi Wang , Shujie Hu , Mingyu Cui , Helen Meng , Xunying Liu

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has shown remarkable progress, yet it still faces challenges in real-world distant scenarios across various array topologies each with multiple recording devices. The focal point of the CHiME-7 Distant ASR…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Bingshen Mu , Pengcheng Guo , Dake Guo , Pan Zhou , Wei Chen , Lei Xie

The front-end module in multi-channel automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems mainly use microphone array techniques to produce enhanced signals in noisy conditions with reverberation and echos. Recently, neural network (NN) based…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Yuxiang Kong , Jian Wu , Quandong Wang , Peng Gao , Weiji Zhuang , Yujun Wang , Lei Xie

Despite the rapid advance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies, accurate recognition of cocktail party speech characterised by the interference from overlapping speakers, background noise and room reverberation remains a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Guinan Li , Jianwei Yu , Jiajun Deng , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Speech separation approaches for single-channel, dry speech mixtures have significantly improved. However, real-world spatial and reverberant acoustic environments remain challenging, limiting the effectiveness of these approaches for…

In their everyday life, the speech recognition performance of human listeners is influenced by diverse factors, such as the acoustic environment, the talker and listener positions, possibly impaired hearing, and optional hearing devices.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Marc René Schädler

We propose a self-speaker adaptation method for streaming multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) that eliminates the need for explicit speaker queries. Unlike conventional approaches requiring target speaker embeddings or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Weiqing Wang , Taejin Park , Ivan Medennikov , Jinhan Wang , Kunal Dhawan , He Huang , Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg