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The Voice Conversion Challenge 2020 is the third edition under its flagship that promotes intra-lingual semiparallel and cross-lingual voice conversion (VC). While the primary evaluation of the challenge submissions was done through…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Rohan Kumar Das , Tomi Kinnunen , Wen-Chin Huang , Zhenhua Ling , Junichi Yamagishi , Yi Zhao , Xiaohai Tian , Tomoki Toda

The ICASSP 2026 URGENT Challenge advances the series by focusing on universal speech enhancement (SE) systems that handle diverse distortions, domains, and input conditions. This overview paper details the challenge's motivation, task…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Chenda Li , Wei Wang , Marvin Sach , Wangyou Zhang , Kohei Saijo , Samuele Cornell , Yihui Fu , Zhaoheng Ni , Tim Fingscheidt , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

It is well known that speaker verification systems are subject to spoofing attacks. The Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures Challenge -- ASVSpoof2015 -- provides a standard spoofing database, containing attacks based…

Privacy-preserving voice protection approaches primarily suppress privacy-related information derived from paralinguistic attributes while preserving the linguistic content. Existing solutions focus particularly on single-speaker scenarios.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Xiaoxiao Miao , Ruijie Tao , Chang Zeng , Xin Wang

Adolescent suicide is a critical global health issue, and speech provides a cost-effective modality for automatic suicide risk detection. Given the vulnerable population, protecting speaker identity is particularly important, as speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Ziyun Cui , Sike Jia , Yang Lin , Yinan Duan , Diyang Qu , Runsen Chen , Chao Zhang , Chang Lei , Wen Wu

The ConferencingSpeech 2021 challenge is proposed to stimulate research on far-field multi-channel speech enhancement for video conferencing. The challenge consists of two separate tasks: 1) Task 1 is multi-channel speech enhancement with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Wei Rao , Yihui Fu , Yanxin Hu , Xin Xu , Yvkai Jv , Jiangyu Han , Zhongjie Jiang , Lei Xie , Yannan Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Zheng-Hua Tan , Hui Bu , Tao Yu , Shidong Shang

This paper reports on the design and outcomes of the ICASSP SP Clarity Challenge: Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aids. The scenario was a listener attending to a target speaker in a noisy, domestic environment. There were multiple…

Current speaker anonymization methods, especially with self-supervised learning (SSL) models, require massive computational resources when hiding speaker identity. This paper proposes an effective and parameter-efficient speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Xiaojiao Chen , Sheng Li , Jiyi Li , Hao Huang , Yang Cao , Liang He

As Speech Language Models (SLMs) transition from personal devices to shared, multi-user environments such as smart homes, a new challenge emerges: the model is expected to distinguish between users to manage information flow appropriately.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Yuxiang Wang , Hongyu Liu , Dekun Chen , Xueyao Zhang , Zhizheng Wu

ASVspoof 5 is the fifth edition in a series of challenges that promote the study of speech spoofing and deepfake attacks, and the design of detection solutions. Compared to previous challenges, the ASVspoof 5 database is built from…

Voice Authentication (VA), also known as Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV), is a widely adopted authentication method, particularly in automated systems like banking services, where it serves as a secondary layer of user authentication.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Eshaq Jamdar , Amith Kamath Belman

We introduce a novel method to improve the performance of the VoicePrivacy Challenge 2022 baseline B1 variants. Among the known deficiencies of x-vector-based anonymization systems is the insufficient disentangling of the input features. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Anna Leschanowsky , Nils Peters

The Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) challenge is designed to foster innovation in the area of noise suppression to achieve superior perceptual speech quality. This is the 4th DNS challenge, with the previous editions held at INTERSPEECH 2020,…

This paper presents SpecWav-Attack, an adversarial model for detecting speakers in anonymized speech. It leverages Wav2Vec2 for feature extraction and incorporates spectrogram resizing and incremental training for improved performance.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yuqi Li , Yuanzhong Zheng , Zhongtian Guo , Yaoxuan Wang , Jianjun Yin , Haojun Fei

The INTERSPEECH 2020 Deep Noise Suppression Challenge is intended to promote collaborative research in real-time single-channel Speech Enhancement aimed to maximize the subjective (perceptual) quality of the enhanced speech. A typical…

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) system is a type of bio-metric authentication. It can be attacked by an intruder, who falsifies data in order to get access to protected information. Countermeasures (CM) are special algorithms that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Petr Grinberg , Vladislav Shikhov

Automatic speech verification (ASV) is the technology to determine the identity of a person based on their voice. While being convenient for identity verification, we should aim for the highest system security standard given that it is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Shentong Mo , Haofan Wang , Pinxu Ren , Ta-Chung Chi

Recent progress in audio generation has made it increasingly easy to create highly realistic environmental soundscapes, which can be misused to produce deceptive content, such as fake alarms, gunshots, and crowd sounds, raising concerns for…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Han Yin , Yang Xiao , Rohan Kumar Das , Jisheng Bai , Ting Dang

In this report, we describe our submitted system for track 2 of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2022 (VoxSRC-22). We fuse a variety of good-performing models ranging from supervised models to self-supervised learning(SSL)…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Gang Liu , Tianyan Zhou , Yong Zhao , Yu Wu , Zhuo Chen , Yao Qian , Jian Wu

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