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End-to-end speech recognition is a promising technology for enabling compact automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems since it can unify the acoustic and language model into a single neural network. However, as a drawback, training of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yotaro Kubo , Shigeki Karita , Michiel Bacchiani

Target speaker extraction aims to separate the voice of a specific speaker from mixed speech. Traditionally, this process has relied on extracting a speaker embedding from a reference speech, in which a speaker recognition model is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Bang Zeng , Ming Li

This paper presents a novel zero-shot learning approach towards personalized speech enhancement through the use of a sparsely active ensemble model. Optimizing speech denoising systems towards a particular test-time speaker can improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Aswin Sivaraman , Minje Kim

Despite successful applications of end-to-end approaches in multi-channel speech recognition, the performance still degrades severely when the speech is corrupted by reverberation. In this paper, we integrate the dereverberation module into…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Wangyou Zhang , Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Xuankai Chang , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

Speaker recognition deals with recognizing speakers by their speech. Most speaker recognition systems are built upon two stages, the first stage extracts low dimensional correlation embeddings from speech, and the second performs the…

A primary challenge when deploying speaker recognition systems in real-world applications is performance degradation caused by environmental mismatch. We propose a diffusion-based method that takes speaker embeddings extracted from a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 KiHyun Nam , Jungwoo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Gangin Park , Chaeyoung Jung , Ha-Jin Yu , Joon Son Chung

Sound Event Detection (SED) detects regions of sound events, while Speaker Diarization (SD) segments speech conversations attributed to individual speakers. In SED, all speaker segments are classified as a single speech event, while in SD,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Yidi Jiang , Ruijie Tao , Wen Huang , Qian Chen , Wen Wang

State-of-the-art speaker diarization systems utilize knowledge from external data, in the form of a pre-trained distance metric, to effectively determine relative speaker identities to unseen data. However, much of recent focus has been on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-02 Vivek Sivaraman Narayanaswamy , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Huan Song , Andreas Spanias

Although fully end-to-end speaker diarization systems have made significant progress in recent years, modular systems often achieve superior results in real-world scenarios due to their greater adaptability and robustness. Historically,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Ruoyu Wang , Shutong Niu , Gaobin Yang , Jun Du , Shuangqing Qian , Tian Gao , Jia Pan

End-to-end architectures have been recently proposed for spoken language understanding (SLU) and semantic parsing. Based on a large amount of data, those models learn jointly acoustic and linguistic-sequential features. Such architectures…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Marco Dinarelli , Nikita Kapoor , Bassam Jabaian , Laurent Besacier

Speaker modeling is essential for many related tasks, such as speaker recognition and speaker diarization. The dominant modeling approach is fixed-dimensional vector representation, i.e., speaker embedding. This paper introduces a research…

Recent works show that speech separation guided diarization (SSGD) is an increasingly promising direction, mainly thanks to the recent progress in speech separation. It performs diarization by first separating the speakers and then applying…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Giovanni Morrone , Samuele Cornell , Luca Serafini , Enrico Zovato , Alessio Brutti , Stefano Squartini

Recently, end-to-end models have become a popular approach as an alternative to traditional hybrid models in automatic speech recognition (ASR). The multi-speaker speech separation and recognition task is a central task in cocktail party…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Xuankai Chang , Yanmin Qian , Kai Yu , Shinji Watanabe

In this paper we present a data-driven, integrated approach to speaker verification, which maps a test utterance and a few reference utterances directly to a single score for verification and jointly optimizes the system's components using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Georg Heigold , Ignacio Moreno , Samy Bengio , Noam Shazeer

Though significant progress has been made for the voice conversion (VC) of typical speech, VC for atypical speech, e.g., dysarthric and second-language (L2) speech, remains a challenge, since it involves correcting for atypical prosody…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Disong Wang , Songxiang Liu , Lifa Sun , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Despite the recent success of deep learning for many speech processing tasks, single-microphone, speaker-independent speech separation remains challenging for two main reasons. The first reason is the arbitrary order of the target and…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Yi Luo , Zhuo Chen , Nima Mesgarani

For online speaker diarization, samples arrive incrementally, and the overall distribution of the samples is invisible. Moreover, in most existing clustering-based methods, the training objective of the embedding extractor is not designed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Yifan Chen , Yifan Guo , Qingxuan Li , Gaofeng Cheng , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

Modeling the rich prosodic variations inherent in human speech is essential for generating natural-sounding speech. While speaker embeddings are commonly used as conditioning inputs in personalized speech generation, they are typically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , John H. L. Hansen , Carlos Busso , Berrak Sisman

Deep speaker embedding has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in speaker recognition tasks. However, one potential issue with this approach is that the speaker vectors derived from deep embedding models tend to be non-Gaussian for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Yunqi Cai , Lantian Li , Dong Wang , Andrew Abel

The end-to-end approach for single-channel speech separation has been studied recently and shown promising results. This paper extended the previous approach and proposed a new end-to-end model for multi-channel speech separation. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Rongzhi Gu , Jian Wu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Dan Su , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu