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In 2024, we will hold a research paper competition (the third Human Understanding AI Paper Challenge) for the research and development of artificial intelligence technologies to understand human daily life. This document introduces the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Se Won Oh , Hyuntae Jeong , Jeong Mook Lim , Seungeun Chung , Kyoung Ju Noh

One-shot voice conversion aims to change the timbre of any source speech to match that of the unseen target speaker with only one speech sample. Existing methods face difficulties in satisfactory speech representation disentanglement and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Pengcheng Li , Jianzong Wang , Xulong Zhang , Yong Zhang , Jing Xiao , Ning Cheng

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

AI-synthesized speech, also known as deepfake speech, has recently raised significant concerns due to the rapid advancement of speech synthesis and speech conversion techniques. Previous works often rely on distinguishing synthesizer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Kuiyuan Zhang , Zhongyun Hua , Yushu Zhang , Yifang Guo , Tao Xiang

Real-world speech communication is rarely affected by a single type of degradation. Instead, it suffers from a complex interplay of acoustic interference, codec compression, and, increasingly, secondary artifacts introduced by upstream…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Junan Zhang , Mengyao Zhu , Xin Xu , Hui Bu , Zhenhua Ling , Zhizheng Wu

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 research presents a novel approach to enhancing automatic speech recognition systems by integrating noise detection capabilities directly into the recognition architecture. Building upon the wav2vec2 framework, the proposed method…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Karamvir Singh

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been significantly advanced with the use of deep learning and big data. However improving robustness, including achieving equally good performance on diverse speakers and accents, is still a…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Fan Yu , Zhuoyuan Yao , Xiong Wang , Keyu An , Lei Xie , Zhijian Ou , Bo Liu , Xiulin Li , Guanqiong Miao

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are susceptible to various noise factors leading to the loss of information, and the noise restricts the subsequent HSIs object detection and classification tasks. In recent years, learning-based methods have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Yuqiao Liu , Yanan Sun , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

In this paper, a novel architecture for speaker recognition is proposed by cascading speech enhancement and speaker processing. Its aim is to improve speaker recognition performance when speech signals are corrupted by noise. Instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

While the use of deep neural networks has significantly boosted speaker recognition performance, it is still challenging to separate speakers in poor acoustic environments. Here speech enhancement methods have traditionally allowed improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Existing deep learning-based speech denoising approaches require clean speech signals to be available for training. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to improve speech denoising in real-world audio environments by not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Nasim Alamdari , Arian Azarang , Nasser Kehtarnavaz

Contemporary speech enhancement predominantly relies on audio transforms that are trained to reconstruct a clean speech waveform. The development of high-performing neural network sound recognition systems has raised the possibility of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mark R. Saddler , Andrew Francl , Jenelle Feather , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Josh H. McDermott

Recent progress in self-supervised or unsupervised machine learning has opened the possibility of building a full speech processing system from raw audio without using any textual representations or expert labels such as phonemes,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Ewan Dunbar , Nicolas Hamilakis , Emmanuel Dupoux

We present the SUPERB challenge at SLT 2022, which aims at learning self-supervised speech representation for better performance, generalization, and efficiency. The challenge builds upon the SUPERB benchmark and implements metrics to…

This paper presents the NPU-HWC system submitted to the ISCSLP 2024 Inspirational and Convincing Audio Generation Challenge 2024 (ICAGC). Our system consists of two modules: a speech generator for Track 1 and a background audio generator…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Dake Guo , Jixun Yao , Xinfa Zhu , Kangxiang Xia , Zhao Guo , Ziyu Zhang , Yao Wang , Jie Liu , Lei Xie

The Far-Field Speaker Verification Challenge 2020 (FFSVC20) is designed to boost the speaker verification research with special focus on far-field distributed microphone arrays under noisy conditions in real scenarios. The objectives of…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li , Hui Bu , Rohan Kumar Das , Wei Rao , Shrikanth Narayanan , Haizhou Li

Speech time reversal refers to the process of reversing the entire speech signal in time, causing it to play backward. Such signals are completely unintelligible since the fundamental structures of phonemes and syllables are destroyed.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Ishan D. Biyani , Nirmesh J. Shah , Ashishkumar P. Gudmalwar , Pankaj Wasnik , Rajiv R. Shah

Digital audio signal reconstruction of a lost or corrupt segment using deep learning algorithms has been explored intensively in recent years. Nevertheless, prior traditional methods with linear interpolation, phase coding and tone…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Zohra Adila Cheddad , Abbas Cheddad

We review current solutions and technical challenges for automatic speech recognition, keyword spotting, device arbitration, speech enhancement, and source localization in multidevice home environments to provide context for the INTERSPEECH…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Gregory Ciccarelli , Jarred Barber , Arun Nair , Israel Cohen , Tao Zhang