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Target-Speaker Voice Activity Detection (TS-VAD) is the task of detecting the presence of speech from a known target-speaker in an audio frame. Recently, deep neural network-based models have shown good performance in this task. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Holger Severin Bovbjerg , Jan Østergaard , Jesper Jensen , Zheng-Hua Tan

The SAFE Challenge evaluates synthetic speech detection across three tasks: unmodified audio, processed audio with compression artifacts, and laundered audio designed to evade detection. We systematically explore self-supervised learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Hashim Ali , Surya Subramani , Lekha Bollinani , Nithin Sai Adupa , Sali El-Loh , Hafiz Malik

When dealing with overlapped speech, the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems substantially degrades as they are designed for single-talker speech. To enhance ASR performance in conversational or meeting environments,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Hassan Taherian , DeLiang Wang

While end-to-end models have shown great success on the Automatic Speech Recognition task, performance degrades severely when target sentences are long-form. The previous proposed methods, (partial) overlapping inference are shown to be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Jinhan Wang , Xiaosu Tong , Jinxi Guo , Di He , Roland Maas

The goal of this work is Active Speaker Detection (ASD), a task to determine whether a person is speaking or not in a series of video frames. Previous works have dealt with the task by exploring network architectures while learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Chaeyoung Jung , Suyeon Lee , Kihyun Nam , Kyeongha Rho , You Jin Kim , Youngjoon Jang , Joon Son Chung

Self-supervised learning (SSL) based speech pre-training has attracted much attention for its capability of extracting rich representations learned from massive unlabeled data. On the other hand, the use of weakly-supervised data is less…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Wangyou Zhang , Yanmin Qian

Recent works show that speech separation guided diarization (SSGD) is an increasingly promising direction, mainly thanks to the recent progress in speech separation. It performs diarization by first separating the speakers and then applying…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Giovanni Morrone , Samuele Cornell , Luca Serafini , Enrico Zovato , Alessio Brutti , Stefano Squartini

Recognizing overlapping speech from multiple speakers in conversational scenarios is one of the most challenging problem for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Serialized output training (SOT) is a classic method to address multi-talker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Mohan Shi , Zengrui Jin , Yaoxun Xu , Yong Xu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Kun Wei , Yiwen Shao , Chunlei Zhang , Dong Yu

Spoofing attacks posed by generating artificial speech can severely degrade the performance of a speaker verification system. Recently, many anti-spoofing countermeasures have been proposed for detecting varying types of attacks from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Yuanjun Zhao , Roberto Togneri , Victor Sreeram

Full-duplex spoken dialogue systems promise to transform human-machine interaction from a rigid, turn-based protocol into a fluid, natural conversation. However, the central challenge to realizing this vision, managing overlapping speech,…

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We propose an end-to-end joint optimization framework of a multi-channel neural speech extraction and deep acoustic model without mel-filterbank (FBANK) extraction for overlapped speech recognition. First, based on a multi-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Bo Wu , Meng Yu , Lianwu Chen , Chao Weng , Dan Su , Dong Yu

This paper delves into the challenging task of Active Speaker Detection (ASD), where the system needs to determine in real-time whether a person is speaking or not in a series of video frames. While previous works have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Arnav Kundu , Yanzi Jin , Mohammad Sekhavat , Max Horton , Danny Tormoen , Devang Naik

Despite its broad practical applications such as in fraud prevention, open-set speaker identification (OSI) has received less attention in the speaker recognition community compared to speaker verification (SV). OSI deals with determining…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Raghuveer Peri , Seyed Omid Sadjadi , Daniel Garcia-Romero

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) aims at detecting speech segments on an audio signal, which is a necessary first step for many today's speech based applications. Current state-of-the-art methods focus on training a neural network exploiting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Sina Alisamir , Fabien Ringeval , Francois Portet

Recent advances in the Active Speaker Detection (ASD) problem build upon a two-stage process: feature extraction and spatio-temporal context aggregation. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end ASD workflow where feature learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Juan Leon Alcazar , Moritz Cordes , Chen Zhao , Bernard Ghanem

The first spoofing-aware speaker verification (SASV) challenge aims to integrate research efforts in speaker verification and anti-spoofing. We extend the speaker verification scenario by introducing spoofed trials to the usual set of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Jee-weon Jung , Hemlata Tak , Hye-jin Shim , Hee-Soo Heo , Bong-Jin Lee , Soo-Whan Chung , Ha-Jin Yu , Nicholas Evans , Tomi Kinnunen

In real-world applications, it is challenging to build a speaker verification system that is simultaneously robust against common threats, including spoofing attacks, channel mismatch, and domain mismatch. Traditional automatic speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Chang Zeng , Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi

Current state-of-the-art automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems are vulnerable to presentation attacks, and several countermeasures (CMs), which distinguish bona fide trials from spoofing ones, have been explored to protect ASV.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Chang Zeng , Lin Zhang , Meng Liu , Junichi Yamagishi

Active speaker detection (ASD) seeks to detect who is speaking in a visual scene of one or more speakers. The successful ASD depends on accurate interpretation of short-term and long-term audio and visual information, as well as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Ruijie Tao , Zexu Pan , Rohan Kumar Das , Xinyuan Qian , Mike Zheng Shou , Haizhou Li