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Deepfakes represent a growing concern across domains such as disinformation, fraud, and non-consensual media. In particular, the rise of video conference and identity-driven attacks in high-stakes scenarios--such as impostor hiring--demands…

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In this work, we investigate the generalization of a multi-channel learning-based replay speech detector, which employs adaptive beamforming and detection, across different microphone arrays. In general, deep neural network-based microphone…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Michael Neri , Tuomas Virtanen

Code-switching (CS), the alternation between two or more languages within a single conversation, presents significant challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Existing Mandarin-English code-switching datasets often suffer…

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Multi-channel acoustic signal processing is a well-established and powerful tool to exploit the spatial diversity between a target signal and non-target or noise sources for signal enhancement. However, the textbook solutions for optimal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Reinhold Haeb-Umbach , Tomohiro Nakatani , Marc Delcroix , Christoph Boeddeker , Tsubasa Ochiai

Full-duplex, spontaneous conversational data are essential for enhancing the naturalness and interactivity of synthesized speech in conversational TTS systems. We present two open-source dual-track conversational speech datasets, one in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Zhitong Zhou , Qingqing Zhang , Lei Luo , Jiechen Liu , Ruohua Zhou

Speech synthesis systems can now produce highly realistic vocalisations that pose significant authenticity challenges. Despite substantial progress in deepfake detection models, their real-world effectiveness is often undermined by evolving…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qizhou Wang , Hanxun Huang , Guansong Pang , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

Computational engine sound modeling is central to the automotive audio industry, particularly for active sound design, virtual prototyping, and emerging data-driven engine sound synthesis methods. These applications require large volumes of…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Robin Doerfler , Lonce Wyse

Transcribing meetings containing overlapped speech with only a single distant microphone (SDM) has been one of the most challenging problems for automatic speech recognition (ASR). While various approaches have been proposed, all previous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Naoyuki Kanda , Guoli Ye , Yu Wu , Yashesh Gaur , Xiaofei Wang , Zhong Meng , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka

Nowadays, non-privacy small-scale motion detection has attracted an increasing amount of research in remote sensing in speech recognition. These new modalities are employed to enhance and restore speech information from speakers of multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Yao Ge , Chong Tang , Haobo Li , Zikang Zhang , Wenda Li , Kevin Chetty , Daniele Faccio , Qammer H. Abbasi , Muhammad Imran

We introduce the first Natural Office Talkers in Settings of Far-field Audio Recordings (``NOTSOFAR-1'') Challenge alongside datasets and baseline system. The challenge focuses on distant speaker diarization and automatic speech recognition…

In this paper, we present AISHELL-4, a sizable real-recorded Mandarin speech dataset collected by 8-channel circular microphone array for speech processing in conference scenario. The dataset consists of 211 recorded meeting sessions, each…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Yihui Fu , Luyao Cheng , Shubo Lv , Yukai Jv , Yuxiang Kong , Zhuo Chen , Yanxin Hu , Lei Xie , Jian Wu , Hui Bu , Xin Xu , Jun Du , Jingdong Chen

One of the most challenging scenarios for smart speakers is multi-talker, when target speech from the desired speaker is mixed with interfering speech from one or more speakers. A smart assistant needs to determine which voice to recognize…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Joe Caroselli , Arun Narayanan , Yiteng Huang

This work describes a speech denoising system for machine ears that aims to improve speech intelligibility and the overall listening experience in noisy environments. We recorded approximately 100 hours of audio data with reverberation and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Cong Han , E. Merve Kaya , Kyle Hoefer , Malcolm Slaney , Simon Carlile

We introduce CASTELLA, a human-annotated audio benchmark for the task of audio moment retrieval (AMR). Although AMR has various useful potential applications, there is still no established benchmark with real-world data. The initial study…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Hokuto Munakata , Takehiro Imamura , Taichi Nishimura , Tatsuya Komatsu

Noise-robust speech recognition systems require large amounts of training data including noisy speech data and corresponding transcripts to achieve state-of-the-art performances in face of various practical environments. However, such…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Chen Chen , Nana Hou , Yuchen Hu , Shashank Shirol , Eng Siong Chng

Many speaker localization methods can be found in the literature. However, speaker localization under strong reverberation still remains a major challenge in the real-world applications. This paper proposes two algorithms for localizing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Shoufeng Lin

Speech enhancement performance degrades significantly in noisy environments, limiting the deployment of speech-controlled technologies in industrial settings, such as manufacturing plants. Existing speech enhancement solutions primarly rely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Zachary Turcotte , François Grondin

Benchmarking plays a pivotal role in assessing and enhancing the performance of compact deep learning models designed for execution on resource-constrained devices, such as microcontrollers. Our study introduces a novel, entirely…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-18 René Groh , Nina Goes , Andreas M. Kist

While the use of deep neural networks has significantly boosted speaker recognition performance, it is still challenging to separate speakers in poor acoustic environments. To improve robustness of speaker recognition system performance in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

The hearing sense on a mobile robot is important because it is omnidirectional and it does not require direct line-of-sight with the sound source. Such capabilities can nicely complement vision to help localize a person or an interesting…

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