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This work presents a speech-to-text system "Pisets" for scientists and journalists which is based on a three-component architecture aimed at improving speech recognition accuracy while minimizing errors and hallucinations associated with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ivan Bondarenko , Daniil Grebenkin , Oleg Sedukhin , Mikhail Klementev , Roman Derunets , Lyudmila Budneva

End-to-end model, especially Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T), has achieved great success in speech recognition. However, transducer requires a great memory footprint and computing time when processing a long decoding sequence.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Xiaohui Zhang , Mangui Liang , Zhengkun Tian , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao

We introduce SupertonicTTS, a novel text-to-speech (TTS) system designed for efficient and streamlined speech synthesis. SupertonicTTS comprises three components: a speech autoencoder for continuous latent representation, a text-to-latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Hyeongju Kim , Jinhyeok Yang , Yechan Yu , Seunghun Ji , Jacob Morton , Frederik Bous , Joon Byun , Juheon Lee

Text-based speech editing aims to modify specific segments while preserving speaker identity and acoustic context. Existing methods rely on task-specific training, which incurs high data costs and struggles with temporal fidelity in…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sihan Lv , Yechen Jin , Zhen Li , Jintao Chen , Jinshan Zhang , Ying Li , Jianwei Yin , Meng Xi

This paper proposes a novel unsupervised autoregressive neural model for learning generic speech representations. In contrast to other speech representation learning methods that aim to remove noise or speaker variabilities, ours is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Yu-An Chung , Wei-Ning Hsu , Hao Tang , James Glass

Speech-to-text translation (ST) is a cross-modal task that involves converting spoken language into text in a different language. Previous research primarily focused on enhancing speech translation by facilitating knowledge transfer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Chengwei Zhang , Yue Zhou , Rui Zhao , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

We present an end-to-end deep learning approach to denoising speech signals by processing the raw waveform directly. Given input audio containing speech corrupted by an additive background signal, the system aims to produce a processed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-18 Francois G. Germain , Qifeng Chen , Vladlen Koltun

Modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems are able to generate audio that sounds almost as natural as human speech. However, the bar of developing high-quality TTS systems remains high since a sizable set of studio-quality <text, audio> pairs is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Wei Fang , Yu-An Chung , James Glass

Although text-to-speech (TTS) systems have significantly improved, most TTS systems still have limitations in synthesizing speech with appropriate phrasing. For natural speech synthesis, it is important to synthesize the speech with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Ji-Sang Hwang , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

In this paper, we propose a neural articulation-to-speech (ATS) framework that synthesizes high-quality speech from articulatory signal in a multi-speaker situation. Most conventional ATS approaches only focus on modeling contextual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Miseul Kim , Zhenyu Piao , Jihyun Lee , Hong-Goo Kang

With the popularity of deep neural network, speech synthesis task has achieved significant improvements based on the end-to-end encoder-decoder framework in the recent days. More and more applications relying on speech synthesis technology…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Dongyang Dai , Li Chen , Yuping Wang , Mu Wang , Rui Xia , Xuchen Song , Zhiyong Wu , Yuxuan Wang

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) with discrete self-supervised representations has achieved remarkable accuracy, but is unable to preserve the speaker timbre of the source speech. Meanwhile, the scarcity of high-quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yongqi Wang , Jionghao Bai , Rongjie Huang , Ruiqi Li , Zhiqing Hong , Zhou Zhao

This study addresses the problem of single-channel Automatic Speech Recognition of a target speaker within an overlap speech scenario. In the proposed method, the hidden representations in the acoustic model are modulated by speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Midia Yousefi , John H. L. Hanse

We propose an end-to-end speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition model that unifies speaker counting, speech recognition, and speaker identification on monaural overlapped speech. Our model is built on serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Naoyuki Kanda , Yashesh Gaur , Xiaofei Wang , Zhong Meng , Zhuo Chen , Tianyan Zhou , Takuya Yoshioka

Adapting pretrained models typically involves a trade-off between the high training costs of backpropagation and the heavy inference overhead of memory-based or in-context learning. We propose FAAST, a forward-only associative adaptation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Guangsheng Bao , Hongbo Zhang , Han Cui , Ke Sun , Yanbin Zhao , Juncai He , Yue Zhang

Speech Foundation Models encounter significant performance degradation when deployed in real-world scenarios involving acoustic domain shifts, such as background noise and speaker accents. Test-time adaptation (TTA) has recently emerged as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jiaheng Dong , Hong Jia , Soumyajit Chatterjee , Abhirup Ghosh , James Bailey , Ting Dang

Benefiting from the development of deep learning, text-to-speech (TTS) techniques using clean speech have achieved significant performance improvements. The data collected from real scenes often contains noise and generally needs to be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Qiushi Zhu , Yu Gu , Rilin Chen , Chao Weng , Yuchen Hu , Lirong Dai , Jie Zhang

With the rapid progress of speech language models (SLMs), discrete speech tokens have emerged as a core interface between speech and text, enabling unified modeling across modalities. Recent speech tokenization approaches aim to isolate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Daejin Jo , Jeeyoung Yun , Byungseok Roh , Sungwoong Kim

Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained to support an increasing number of languages, yet their predefined tokenizers remain a bottleneck for adapting models to lower-resource or distinct-script languages. Existing tokenizer transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mykola Haltiuk , Aleksander Smywinski-Pohl

Audio generation has achieved remarkable progress with the advance of sophisticated generative models, such as diffusion models (DMs) and autoregressive (AR) models. However, due to the naturally significant sequence length of audio, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Kai Qiu , Xiang Li , Hao Chen , Jie Sun , Jinglu Wang , Zhe Lin , Marios Savvides , Bhiksha Raj