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Wav2vec2.0 is a popular self-supervised pre-training framework for learning speech representations in the context of automatic speech recognition (ASR). It was shown that wav2vec2.0 has a good robustness against the domain shift, while the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Qiu-Shi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Zi-Qiang Zhang , Ming-Hui Wu , Xin Fang , Li-Rong Dai

Recent advancements in deep learning led to human-level performance in single-speaker speech synthesis. However, there are still limitations in terms of speech quality when generalizing those systems into multiple-speaker models especially…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Dipjyoti Paul , Yannis Pantazis , Yannis Stylianou

We propose SelfVC, a training strategy to iteratively improve a voice conversion model with self-synthesized examples. Previous efforts on voice conversion focus on factorizing speech into explicitly disentangled representations that…

We propose an algorithm to denoise speakers from a single microphone in the presence of non-stationary and dynamic noise. Our approach is inspired by the recent success of neural network models separating speakers from other speakers and…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Jeff Hetherly , Paul Gamble , Maria Barrios , Cory Stephenson , Karl Ni

Voice Conversion(VC) refers to changing the timbre of a speech while retaining the discourse content. Recently, many works have focused on disentangle-based learning techniques to separate the timbre and the linguistic content information…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Turn-taking is a crucial aspect of human-robot interaction, directly influencing conversational fluidity and user engagement. While previous research has explored turn-taking models in controlled environments, their robustness in real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Koji Inoue , Yuki Okafuji , Jun Baba , Yoshiki Ohira , Katsuya Hyodo , Tatsuya Kawahara

The representation learning of speech, without textual resources, is an area of significant interest for many low resource speech applications. In this paper, we describe an approach to self-supervised representation learning from raw audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Varun Krishna , Tarun Sai , Sriram Ganapathy

Background noise considerably reduces the accuracy and reliability of speaker verification (SV) systems. These challenges can be addressed using a speech enhancement system as a front-end module. Recently, diffusion probabilistic models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Ju-ho Kim , Jungwoo Heo , Hyun-seo Shin , Chan-yeong Lim , Ha-Jin Yu

Event-based sensors offer significant advantages over traditional frame-based cameras, especially in scenarios involving rapid motion or challenging lighting conditions. However, event data frequently suffers from considerable noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Marcin Kowalczyk , Kamil Jeziorek , Tomasz Kryjak

Noise reduction techniques based on deep learning have demonstrated impressive performance in enhancing the overall quality of recorded speech. While these approaches are highly performant, their application in audio engineering can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Christian J. Steinmetz , Thomas Walther , Joshua D. Reiss

Many existing works on voice conversion (VC) tasks use automatic speech recognition (ASR) models for ensuring linguistic consistency between source and converted samples. However, for the low-data resource domains, training a high-quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Mayank Kumar Singh , Naoya Takahashi , Onoe Naoyuki

In this paper, we explore an improved framework to train a monoaural neural enhancement model for robust speech recognition. The designed training framework extends the existing mixture invariant training criterion to exploit both unpaired…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Jisi Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Jon Barker

Audio-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) degrades significantly in noisy environments and is particularly vulnerable to interfering speech, as the model cannot determine which speaker to transcribe. Audio-visual speech recognition…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Bowen Shi , Wei-Ning Hsu , Abdelrahman Mohamed

Robust speaker verification under noisy conditions remains an open challenge. Conventional deep learning methods learn a robust unified speaker representation space against diverse background noise and achieve significant improvement. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Bin Gu , Haitao Zhao , Jibo Wei

Zero-shot speaker adaptation aims to clone an unseen speaker's voice without any adaptation time and parameters. Previous researches usually use a speaker encoder to extract a global fixed speaker embedding from reference speech, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Yixuan Zhou , Changhe Song , Xiang Li , Luwen Zhang , Zhiyong Wu , Yanyao Bian , Dan Su , Helen Meng

Speech time reversal refers to the process of reversing the entire speech signal in time, causing it to play backward. Such signals are completely unintelligible since the fundamental structures of phonemes and syllables are destroyed.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Ishan D. Biyani , Nirmesh J. Shah , Ashishkumar P. Gudmalwar , Pankaj Wasnik , Rajiv R. Shah

This paper focuses on designing a noise-robust end-to-end Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) system. To this end, we propose Visual Context-driven Audio Feature Enhancement module (V-CAFE) to enhance the input noisy audio speech with a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Joanna Hong , Minsu Kim , Daehun Yoo , Yong Man Ro

Voice conversion (VC) modifies voice characteristics while preserving linguistic content. This paper presents the Stepback network, a novel model for converting speaker identity using non-parallel data. Unlike traditional VC methods that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Qian Yang , Calbert Graham

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) often suffers from noisy or imperfect reward supervision in real-world settings, which undermines policy stability and generalization. Such noise may cause models to lose attention on key…

Recent studies demonstrate the effectiveness of Self Supervised Learning (SSL) speech representations for Speech Inversion (SI). However, applying SI in real-world scenarios remains challenging due to the pervasive presence of background…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Saba Tabatabaee , Carol Espy-Wilson