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We propose EmoDistill, a novel speech emotion recognition (SER) framework that leverages cross-modal knowledge distillation during training to learn strong linguistic and prosodic representations of emotion from speech. During inference,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Debaditya Shome , Ali Etemad

The emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) task aims to predict the emotion label of an utterance in a conversation. Since the dependencies between speakers are complex and dynamic, which consist of intra- and inter-speaker dependencies,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Yinan Bao , Qianwen Ma , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

Speaker verification systems often degrade significantly when there is a language mismatch between training and testing data. Being able to improve cross-lingual speaker verification system using unlabeled data can greatly increase the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Wei Xia , Jing Huang , John H. L. Hansen

This paper proposes attentive statistics pooling for deep speaker embedding in text-independent speaker verification. In conventional speaker embedding, frame-level features are averaged over all the frames of a single utterance to form an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-27 Koji Okabe , Takafumi Koshinaka , Koichi Shinoda

Generative Spoken Language Modeling research focuses on optimizing speech Language Models (LMs) using raw audio recordings without accessing any textual supervision. Such speech LMs usually operate over discrete units obtained from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Itai Gat , Felix Kreuk , Tu Anh Nguyen , Ann Lee , Jade Copet , Gabriel Synnaeve , Emmanuel Dupoux , Yossi Adi

This paper presents an improved deep embedding learning method based on convolutional neural network (CNN) for text-independent speaker verification. Two improvements are proposed for x-vector embedding learning: (1) Multi-scale convolution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-15 Bin Gu , Wu Guo

Speaker diarization is a task concerned with partitioning an audio recording by speaker identity. End-to-end neural diarization with encoder-decoder based attractor calculation (EEND-EDA) aims to solve this problem by directly outputting…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Samuel J. Broughton , Lahiru Samarakoon

Speaker recognition systems are widely used in various applications to identify a person by their voice; however, the high degree of variability in speech signals makes this a challenging task. Dealing with emotional variations is very…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Ali Bou Nassif , Ismail Shahin , Ashraf Elnagar , Divya Velayudhan , Adi Alhudhaif , Kemal Polat

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has gained significant attention due to its several application fields, such as mental health, education, and human-computer interaction. However, the accuracy of SER systems is hindered by high-dimensional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Alaa Nfissi , Wassim Bouachir , Nizar Bouguila , Brian Mishara

Although speaker verification has conventionally been an audio-only task, some practical applications provide both audio and visual streams of input. In these cases, the visual stream provides complementary information and can often be…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Leda Sarı , Kritika Singh , Jiatong Zhou , Lorenzo Torresani , Nayan Singhal , Yatharth Saraf

Acoustic emotion recognition aims to categorize the affective state of the speaker and is still a difficult task for machine learning models. The difficulties come from the scarcity of training data, general subjectivity in emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Egor Lakomkin , Cornelius Weber , Sven Magg , Stefan Wermter

The speech representations learned from large-scale unlabeled data have shown better generalizability than those from supervised learning and thus attract a lot of interest to be applied for various downstream tasks. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhengyang Chen , Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Yao Qian , Chengyi Wang , Shujie Liu , Yanmin Qian , Michael Zeng

Nowadays, neural vocoders can generate very high-fidelity speech when a bunch of training data is available. Although a speaker-dependent (SD) vocoder usually outperforms a speaker-independent (SI) vocoder, it is impractical to collect a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Yi-Chiao Wu , Cheng-Hung Hu , Hung-Shin Lee , Yu-Huai Peng , Wen-Chin Huang , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang , Tomoki Toda

This work presents a novel framework based on feed-forward neural network for text-independent speaker classification and verification, two related systems of speaker recognition. With optimized features and model training, it achieves 100%…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Zhenhao Ge , Ananth N. Iyer , Srinath Cheluvaraja , Ram Sundaram , Aravind Ganapathiraju

This article presents a novel approach for learning domain-invariant speaker embeddings using Generative Adversarial Networks. The main idea is to confuse a domain discriminator so that is can't tell if embeddings are from the source or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-08 Gautam Bhattacharya , Joao Monteiro , Jahangir Alam , Patrick Kenny

Despite recent advances in voice separation methods, many challenges remain in realistic scenarios such as noisy recording and the limits of available data. In this work, we propose to explicitly incorporate the phonetic and linguistic…

We introduce a self-supervised speech pre-training method called TERA, which stands for Transformer Encoder Representations from Alteration. Recent approaches often learn by using a single auxiliary task like contrastive prediction,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Andy T. Liu , Shang-Wen Li , Hung-yi Lee

Traditional studies on voice conversion (VC) have made progress with parallel training data and known speakers. Good voice conversion quality is obtained by exploring better alignment modules or expressive mapping functions. In this study,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Jiachen Lian , Chunlei Zhang , Dong Yu

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is essential for effective human-machine interaction, aiming to identify speakers' emotional states in multi-turn dialogues. Early text-based methods struggle with complex scenarios like sarcasm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Linan ZHU , Zihao Zhai , Xiao Han , Yuqian Fu , Xiangfan Chen , Xiangjie Kong , Guojiang Shen

Multimodal speech emotion recognition (SER) has emerged as pivotal for improving human-machine interaction. Researchers are increasingly leveraging both speech and textual information obtained through automatic speech recognition (ASR) to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jiajun He , Xiaohan Shi , Cheng-Hung Hu , Jinyi Mi , Xingfeng Li , Tomoki Toda