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This paper summarizes the music demixing (MDX) track of the Sound Demixing Challenge (SDX'23). We provide a summary of the challenge setup and introduce the task of robust music source separation (MSS), i.e., training MSS models in the…

This work is an improved system that we submitted to task 1 of DCASE2023 challenge. We propose a method of low-complexity acoustic scene classification by a parallel attention-convolution network which consists of four modules, including…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Yanxiong Li , Jiaxin Tan , Guoqing Chen , Jialong Li , Yongjie Si , Qianhua He

The recent developments in technology have re-warded us with amazing audio synthesis models like TACOTRON and WAVENETS. On the other side, it poses greater threats such as speech clones and deep fakes, that may go undetected. To tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Arun Kumar Singh , Priyanka Singh , Karan Nathwani

The rapid advancement of AI has enabled highly realistic speech synthesis and voice cloning, posing serious risks to voice authentication, smart assistants, and telecom security. While most prior work frames spoof detection as a binary…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Bin Hu , Kunyang Huang , Daehan Kwak , Meng Xu , Kuan Huang

Identity, accent, style, and emotions are essential components of human speech. Voice conversion (VC) techniques process the speech signals of two input speakers and other modalities of auxiliary information such as prompts and emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Xining Song , Zhihua Wei , Rui Wang , Haixiao Hu , Yanxiang Chen , Meng Han

Recent advances in AI-generated voices have intensified the challenge of detecting deepfake audio, posing risks for scams and the spread of disinformation. To tackle this issue, we establish the largest public voice dataset to date, named…

Collecting speech data is an important step in training speech recognition systems and other speech-based machine learning models. However, the issue of privacy protection is an increasing concern that must be addressed. The current study…

This paper presents our systems (denoted as T13) for the singing voice conversion challenge (SVCC) 2023. For both in-domain and cross-domain English singing voice conversion (SVC) tasks (Task 1 and Task 2), we adopt a recognition-synthesis…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Ryuichi Yamamoto , Reo Yoneyama , Lester Phillip Violeta , Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Toda

The first spoofing-aware speaker verification (SASV) challenge aims to integrate research efforts in speaker verification and anti-spoofing. We extend the speaker verification scenario by introducing spoofed trials to the usual set of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Jee-weon Jung , Hemlata Tak , Hye-jin Shim , Hee-Soo Heo , Bong-Jin Lee , Soo-Whan Chung , Ha-Jin Yu , Nicholas Evans , Tomi Kinnunen

The DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments (DISPLACE) 2024 challenge is the second in the series of DISPLACE challenges, which involves tasks of speaker diarization (SD) and language diarization (LD) on a…

Casual conversations involving multiple speakers and noises from surrounding devices are common in everyday environments, which degrades the performances of automatic speech recognition systems. These challenging characteristics of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-24 Nelson Yalta , Shinji Watanabe , Takaaki Hori , Kazuhiro Nakadai , Tetsuya Ogata

The third instalment of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge was held in conjunction with Interspeech 2021. The aim of this challenge was to assess how well current speaker recognition technology is able to diarise and recognise…

This paper describes a real-time General Speech Reconstruction (Gesper) system submitted to the ICASSP 2023 Speech Signal Improvement (SSI) Challenge. This novel proposed system is a two-stage architecture, in which the speech restoration…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Wenzhe Liu , Yupeng Shi , Jun Chen , Wei Rao , Shulin He , Andong Li , Yannan Wang , Zhiyong Wu

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 First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge is a new kind of challenge organized as part of the VoicePrivacy initiative and supported by ICASSP 2025 as the SP Grand Challenge It focuses on developing attacker systems against voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Natalia Tomashenko , Xiaoxiao Miao , Emmanuel Vincent , Junichi Yamagishi

This paper proposes a benchmark of submissions to Detection and Classification Acoustic Scene and Events 2021 Challenge (DCASE) Task 4 representing a sampling of the state-of-the-art in Sound Event Detection task. The submissions are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Francesca Ronchini , Romain Serizel

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

Unsupervised representation learning of speech has been of keen interest in recent years, which is for example evident in the wide interest of the ZeroSpeech challenges. This work presents a new method for learning frame level…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Mingjie Chen , Thomas Hain

In this challenge, we disentangle the deep filters from the original DeepfilterNet and incorporate them into our Spec-UNet-based network to further improve a hybrid Demucs (hdemucs) based remixing pipeline. The motivation behind the use of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Keren Shao , Ke Chen , Shlomo Dubnov

Noise reduction techniques based on deep learning have demonstrated impressive performance in enhancing the overall quality of recorded speech. While these approaches are highly performant, their application in audio engineering can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Christian J. Steinmetz , Thomas Walther , Joshua D. Reiss