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Past studies on end-to-end meeting transcription have focused on model architecture and have mostly been evaluated on simulated meeting data. We present a novel study aiming to optimize the use of a Speaker-Attributed ASR (SA-ASR) system in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Can Cui , Imran Ahamad Sheikh , Mostafa Sadeghi , Emmanuel Vincent

This paper proposes a human-in-the-loop speaker-adaptation method for multi-speaker text-to-speech. With a conventional speaker-adaptation method, a target speaker's embedding vector is extracted from his/her reference speech using a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Kenta Udagawa , Yuki Saito , Hiroshi Saruwatari

This paper proposes a novel automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that can transcribe individual speaker's speech while identifying whether they are target or non-target speakers from multi-talker overlapped speech. Target-speaker ASR…

We propose a self-speaker adaptation method for streaming multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) that eliminates the need for explicit speaker queries. Unlike conventional approaches requiring target speaker embeddings or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Weiqing Wang , Taejin Park , Ivan Medennikov , Jinhan Wang , Kunal Dhawan , He Huang , Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

In voice conversion (VC), an approach showing promising results in the latest voice conversion challenge (VCC) 2020 is to first use an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model to transcribe the source speech into the underlying linguistic…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Hayashi , Xinjian Li , Shinji Watanabe , Tomoki Toda

Previously, Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) has yielded outstanding performance in certain application scenarios for speech enhancement and source separation. However, obtaining auxiliary speaker-related information is still challenging in…

Recent breakthroughs in deep learning often rely on representation learning and knowledge transfer. In recent years, unsupervised and self-supervised techniques for learning speech representation were developed to foster automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Pierre Beckmann , Mikolaj Kegler , Milos Cernak

Although high-fidelity speech can be obtained for intralingual speech synthesis, cross-lingual text-to-speech (CTTS) is still far from satisfactory as it is difficult to accurately retain the speaker timbres(i.e. speaker similarity) and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Sen Liu , Yiwei Guo , Chenpeng Du , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

The goal of text-queried target sound extraction (TSE) is to extract from a mixture a sound source specified with a natural-language caption. While it is preferable to have access to large-scale text-audio pairs to address a variety of text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Kohei Saijo , Janek Ebbers , François G. Germain , Sameer Khurana , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Verifying the identity of a speaker is crucial in modern human-machine interfaces, e.g., to ensure privacy protection or to enable biometric authentication. Classical speaker verification (SV) approaches estimate a fixed-dimensional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Ahmad Aloradi , Wolfgang Mack , Mohamed Elminshawi , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Speaker adaptation, which involves cloning voices from unseen speakers in the Text-to-Speech task, has garnered significant interest due to its numerous applications in multi-media fields. Despite recent advancements, existing methods often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Ruibo Fu , Xin Qi , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao , Tao Wang , Chunyu Qiang , Zhiyong Wang , Yi Lu , Xiaopeng Wang , Shuchen Shi , Yukun Liu , Xuefei Liu , Shuai Zhang

Audiovisual active speaker detection (ASD) addresses the task of determining the speech activity of a candidate speaker given acoustic and visual data. Typically, systems model the temporal correspondence of audiovisual cues, such as the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jason Clarke , Yoshihiko Gotoh , Stefan Goetze

This paper presents a speech BERT model to extract embedded prosody information in speech segments for improving the prosody of synthesized speech in neural text-to-speech (TTS). As a pre-trained model, it can learn prosody attributes from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Liping Chen , Yan Deng , Xi Wang , Frank K. Soong , Lei He

Target-speaker voice activity detection is currently a promising approach for speaker diarization in complex acoustic environments. This paper presents a novel Sequence-to-Sequence Target-Speaker Voice Activity Detection (Seq2Seq-TSVAD)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Ming Cheng , Weiqing Wang , Yucong Zhang , Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li

Modern ASR systems are typically trained on large-scale pseudo-labeled, in-the-wild data spanning multiple domains. While such heterogeneous data benefit generalist models designed for broad deployment, they pose challenges for specialist…

In target speaker extraction, many studies rely on the speaker embedding which is obtained from an enrollment of the target speaker and employed as the guidance. However, solely using speaker embedding may not fully utilize the contextual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Xue Yang , Changchun Bao , Jing Zhou , Xianhong Chen

This paper describes a speaker diarization model based on target speaker voice activity detection (TS-VAD) using transformers. To overcome the original TS-VAD model's drawback of being unable to handle an arbitrary number of speakers, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Dongmei Wang , Xiong Xiao , Naoyuki Kanda , Takuya Yoshioka , Jian Wu

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific speaker's voice from multi-speaker mixtures. Despite strong benchmark results, real-world performance often degrades due to different interacting factors. Previous curriculum…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yun Liu , Xuechen Liu , Xiaoxiao Miao , Junichi Yamagishi

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) models achieve promising results compared with unconditional speech enhancement models due to their ability to remove interfering speech in addition to background noise. Unlike unconditional speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Hassan Taherian , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka

In active speaker detection (ASD), we would like to detect whether an on-screen person is speaking based on audio-visual cues. Previous studies have primarily focused on modeling audio-visual synchronization cue, which depends on the video…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Yidi Jiang , Ruijie Tao , Zexu Pan , Haizhou Li