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Speaker diarization systems segment a conversation recording based on the speakers' identity. Such systems can misclassify the speaker of a portion of audio due to a variety of factors, such as speech pattern variation, background noise,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Anurag Chowdhury , Abhinav Misra , Mark C. Fuhs , Monika Woszczyna

The audio data is increasing day by day throughout the globe with the increase of telephonic conversations, video conferences and voice messages. This research provides a mechanism for identifying a speaker in an audio file, based on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Syeda Rabia Arshad , Syed Mujtaba Haider , Abdul Basit Mughal

Administrative documentation is a major driver of rising healthcare costs and is linked to adverse outcomes, including physician burnout and diminished quality of care. This paper introduces a secure system that applies recent advancements…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Mitchell A. Klusty , W. Vaiden Logan , Samuel E. Armstrong , Aaron D. Mullen , Caroline N. Leach , Jeff Talbert , V. K. Cody Bumgardner

Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (ASR) in multi-speaker environments remains a significant challenge, particularly when systems conditioned on speaker embeddings fail to generalize to unseen speakers. In this work, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Alexander Polok , Dominik Klement , Martin Kocour , Jiangyu Han , Federico Landini , Bolaji Yusuf , Matthew Wiesner , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Jan Černocký , Lukáš Burget

The success of large language models has driven interest in developing similar speech processing capabilities. However, a key challenge is the scarcity of high-quality spontaneous speech data, as most existing datasets contain scripted…

Most neural speaker diarization systems rely on sufficient manual training data labels, which are hard to collect under real-world scenarios. This paper proposes a semi-supervised speaker diarization system to utilize large-scale…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Shilong Wu , Jun Du , Maokui He , Shutong Niu , Hang Chen , Haitao Tang , Chin-Hui Lee

In this work, we present a novel audio-visual dataset for active speaker detection in the wild. A speaker is considered active when his or her face is visible and the voice is audible simultaneously. Although active speaker detection is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 You Jin Kim , Hee-Soo Heo , Soyeon Choe , Soo-Whan Chung , Yoohwan Kwon , Bong-Jin Lee , Youngki Kwon , Joon Son Chung

This paper describes an English audio and textual dataset of debating speeches, a unique resource for the growing research field of computational argumentation and debating technologies. We detail the process of speech recording by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Shachar Mirkin , Michal Jacovi , Tamar Lavee , Hong-Kwang Kuo , Samuel Thomas , Leslie Sager , Lili Kotlerman , Elad Venezian , Noam Slonim

The scarcity of large-scale classroom speech data has hindered the development of AI-driven speech models for education. Public classroom datasets remain limited, and the lack of a dedicated classroom noise corpus prevents the use of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ahmed Adel Attia , Jing Liu , Carl Espy-Wilson

We investigate the automatic processing of child speech therapy sessions using ultrasound visual biofeedback, with a specific focus on complementing acoustic features with ultrasound images of the tongue for the tasks of speaker diarization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-16 Manuel Sam Ribeiro , Aciel Eshky , Korin Richmond , Steve Renals

The conversation scenario is one of the most important and most challenging scenarios for speech processing technologies because people in conversation respond to each other in a casual style. Detecting the speech activities of each person…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Gaofeng Cheng , Yifan Chen , Runyan Yang , Qingxuan Li , Zehui Yang , Lingxuan Ye , Pengyuan Zhang , Qingqing Zhang , Lei Xie , Yanmin Qian , Kong Aik Lee , Yonghong Yan

Speaker diarization, the process of identifying "who spoke when" in audio recordings, is essential for understanding classroom dynamics. However, classroom settings present distinct challenges, including poor recording quality, high levels…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ali Sartaz Khan , Tolulope Ogunremi , Ahmed Adel Attia , Dorottya Demszky

Interactions involving children span a wide range of important domains from learning to clinical diagnostic and therapeutic contexts. Automated analyses of such interactions are motivated by the need to seek accurate insights and offer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Anfeng Xu , Kevin Huang , Tiantian Feng , Helen Tager-Flusberg , Shrikanth Narayanan

Target speech extraction, which extracts the speech of a target speaker in a mixture given auxiliary speaker clues, has recently received increased interest. Various clues have been investigated such as pre-recorded enrollment utterances,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Marc Delcroix , Katerina Zmolikova , Tsubasa Ochiai , Keisuke Kinoshita , Tomohiro Nakatani

This paper examines the integration of real-time talking-head generation for interviewer training, focusing on overcoming challenges in Audio Feature Extraction (AFE), which often introduces latency and limits responsiveness in real-time…

In realistic speech enhancement settings for end-user devices, we often encounter only a few speakers and noise types that tend to reoccur in the specific acoustic environment. We propose a novel personalized speech enhancement method to…

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

Recent speech enhancement models have shown impressive performance gains by scaling up model complexity and training data. However, the impact of dataset variability (e.g. text, language, speaker, and noise) has been underexplored.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Leying Zhang , Wangyou Zhang , Chenda Li , Yanmin Qian

Compared with ample visual-text pre-training research, few works explore audio-text pre-training, mostly due to the lack of sufficient parallel audio-text data. Most existing methods incorporate the visual modality as a pivot for audio-text…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Xuenan Xu , Zhiling Zhang , Zelin Zhou , Pingyue Zhang , Zeyu Xie , Mengyue Wu , Kenny Q. Zhu

We design a framework for studying prelinguistic child voicefrom 3 to 24 months based on state-of-the-art algorithms in di-arization. Our system consists of a time-invariant feature ex-tractor, a context-dependent embedding generator, and a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Junzhe Zhu , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Nancy McElwain

Speaker Diarization is the problem of separating speakers in an audio. There could be any number of speakers and final result should state when speaker starts and ends. In this project, we analyze given audio file with 2 channels and 2…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Vishal Sharma , Zekun Zhang , Zachary Neubert , Curtis Dyreson