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We present the first edition of the VoiceMOS Challenge, a scientific event that aims to promote the study of automatic prediction of the mean opinion score (MOS) of synthetic speech. This challenge drew 22 participating teams from academia…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wen-Chin Huang , Erica Cooper , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang , Tomoki Toda , Junichi Yamagishi

It remains a tough challenge to recover the speech signals contaminated by various noises under real acoustic environments. To this end, we propose a novel system for denoising in the complicated applications, which is mainly comprised of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Andong Li , Wenzhe Liu , Xiaoxue Luo , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

This paper presents a French text-to-speech synthesis system for the Blizzard Challenge 2023. The challenge consists of two tasks: generating high-quality speech from female speakers and generating speech that closely resembles specific…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Xin Qi , Xiaopeng Wang , Zhiyong Wang , Wang Liu , Mingming Ding , Shuchen Shi

This paper presents Task 7 at the DCASE 2024 Challenge: sound scene synthesis. Recent advances in sound synthesis and generative models have enabled the creation of realistic and diverse audio content. We introduce a standardized evaluation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Mathieu Lagrange , Junwon Lee , Modan Tailleur , Laurie M. Heller , Keunwoo Choi , Brian McFee , Keisuke Imoto , Yuki Okamoto

Form about four decades human beings have been dreaming of an intelligent machine which can master the natural speech. In its simplest form, this machine should consist of two subsystems, namely automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Urmila Shrawankar , V. M. Thakare

The ISCSLP 2024 Conversational Voice Clone (CoVoC) Challenge aims to benchmark and advance zero-shot spontaneous style voice cloning, particularly focusing on generating spontaneous behaviors in conversational speech. The challenge…

Target speaker information can be utilized in speech enhancement (SE) models to more effectively extract the desired speech. Previous works introduce the speaker embedding into speech enhancement models by means of concatenation or affine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Xiaohuai Le , Li Chen , Chao He , Yiqing Guo , Cheng Chen , Xianjun Xia , Jing Lu

There has been a growing effort to develop universal speech enhancement (SE) to handle inputs with various speech distortions and recording conditions. The URGENT Challenge series aims to foster such universal SE by embracing a broad range…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Kohei Saijo , Wangyou Zhang , Samuele Cornell , Robin Scheibler , Chenda Li , Zhaoheng Ni , Anurag Kumar , Marvin Sach , Yihui Fu , Wei Wang , Tim Fingscheidt , Shinji Watanabe

Subjective speech quality assessment is the gold standard for evaluating speech enhancement processing and telecommunication systems. The commonly used standard ITU-T Rec. P.800 defines how to measure speech quality in lab environments, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-15 Babak Naderi , Ross Cutler , Nicolae-Catalin Ristea

Audio deepfake detection is an emerging topic in the artificial intelligence community. The second Audio Deepfake Detection Challenge (ADD 2023) aims to spur researchers around the world to build new innovative technologies that can further…

This paper describes our NPU-Elevoc personalized speech enhancement system (NAPSE) for the 5th Deep Noise Suppression Challenge at ICASSP 2023. Based on the superior two-stage model TEA-PSE 2.0, our system particularly explores better…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Xiaopeng Yan , Yindi Yang , Zhihao Guo , Liangliang Peng , Lei Xie

This is the summary paper for the AudioMOS Challenge 2025, the very first challenge for automatic subjective quality prediction for synthetic audio. The challenge consists of three tracks. The first track aims to assess text-to-music…

There is a surge in interest in self-supervised learning approaches for end-to-end speech encoding in recent years as they have achieved great success. Especially, WavLM showed state-of-the-art performance on various speech processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Hyungchan Song , Sanyuan Chen , Zhuo Chen , Yu Wu , Takuya Yoshioka , Min Tang , Jong Won Shin , Shujie Liu

Speech quality assessment (SQA) aims to predict the perceived quality of speech signals under a wide range of distortions. It is inherently connected to speech enhancement (SE), which seeks to improve speech quality by removing unwanted…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Wei Wang , Wangyou Zhang , Chenda Li , Jiatong Shi , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

The automatic speaker verification spoofing and countermeasures (ASVspoof) challenge series is a community-led initiative which aims to promote the consideration of spoofing and the development of countermeasures. ASVspoof 2021 is the 4th…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Héctor Delgado , Nicholas Evans , Tomi Kinnunen , Kong Aik Lee , Xuechen Liu , Andreas Nautsch , Jose Patino , Md Sahidullah , Massimiliano Todisco , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi

This document outlines the Text-dependent Speaker Verification (TdSV) Challenge 2024, which centers on analyzing and exploring novel approaches for text-dependent speaker verification. The primary goal of this challenge is to motive…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zeinali Hossein , Lee Kong Aik , Alam Jahangir , Burget Lukas

Developing large language models is expensive and involves making decisions with small experiments, typically by evaluating on large, multi-task evaluation suites. In this work, we analyze specific properties which make a benchmark more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 David Heineman , Valentin Hofmann , Ian Magnusson , Yuling Gu , Noah A. Smith , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Kyle Lo , Jesse Dodge

We present the second edition of the VoiceMOS Challenge, a scientific event that aims to promote the study of automatic prediction of the mean opinion score (MOS) of synthesized and processed speech. This year, we emphasize real-world and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Erica Cooper , Wen-Chin Huang , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang , Tomoki Toda , Junichi Yamagishi

Dysarthric speech recognition (DSR) enhances the accessibility of smart devices for dysarthric speakers with limited mobility. Previously, DSR research was constrained by the fact that existing datasets typically consisted of isolated…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiyao Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Shiwan Zhao , Yong Qin

This work presents an application of Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system for monitoring human activities directly related to healthcare. Real-time monitoring of humans can assist professionals in providing healthy living…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-28 Shelly Vishwakarma , Wenda Li , Chong Tang , Karl Woodbridge , Raviraj Adve , Kevin Chetty