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This paper introduces the Multi-Band Excited WaveNet a neural vocoder for speaking and singing voices. It aims to advance the state of the art towards an universal neural vocoder, which is a model that can generate voice signals from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Axel Roebel , Frederik Bous

Accurate alignment of dysfluent speech with intended text is crucial for automating the diagnosis of neurodegenerative speech disorders. Traditional methods often fail to model phoneme similarities effectively, limiting their performance.…

Speech separation models are used for isolating individual speakers in many speech processing applications. Deep learning models have been shown to lead to state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on a number of speech separation benchmarks. One…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-13 William Ravenscroft , Stefan Goetze , Thomas Hain

In recent years, the remarkable advancements in deep neural networks have brought tremendous convenience. However, the training process of a highly effective model necessitates a substantial quantity of samples, which brings huge potential…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zhisheng Zhang , Pengyang Huang

In recent years, Sound AI is being increasingly used to predict machine failures. By attaching a microphone to the machine of interest, one can get real time data on machine behavior from the field. Traditionally, Convolutional Neural Net…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Kiran Voderhobli Holla

Multi-speaker speech synthesis is a technique for modeling multiple speakers' voices with a single model. Although many approaches using deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proposed, DNNs are prone to overfitting when the amount of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Kentaro Mitsui , Tomoki Koriyama , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Conformer models have achieved state-of-the-art(SOTA) results in end-to-end speech recognition. However Conformer mainly focuses on temporal modeling while pays less attention on time-frequency property of speech feature. In this paper we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Yongjun Jiang , Jian Yu , Wenwen Yang , Bihong Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Compensation for channel mismatch and noise interference is essential for robust automatic speech recognition. Enhanced speech has been introduced into the multi-condition training of acoustic models to improve their generalization ability.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Hung-Shin Lee , Pin-Yuan Chen , Yao-Fei Cheng , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

This paper describes the system developed by the XMUSPEECH team for the Multi-channel Multi-party Meeting Transcription Challenge (M2MeT). For the speaker diarization task, we propose a multi-channel speaker diarization system that obtains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Jie Wang , Yuji Liu , Binling Wang , Yiming Zhi , Song Li1 , Shipeng Xia , Jiayang Zhang , Lin Li1 , Qingyang Hong , Feng Tong

We propose SpeakerNet - a new neural architecture for speaker recognition and speaker verification tasks. It is composed of residual blocks with 1D depth-wise separable convolutions, batch-normalization, and ReLU layers. This architecture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jason Li , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Boris Ginsburg

Rich sources of variability in natural speech present significant challenges to current data intensive speech recognition technologies. To model both speaker and environment level diversity, this paper proposes a novel Bayesian factorised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Jiajun Deng , Guinan Li , Xurong Xie , Zengrui Jin , Mingyu Cui , Tianzi Wang , Shujie Hu , Mengzhe Geng , Xunying Liu

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

Casual conversations involving multiple speakers and noises from surrounding devices are common in everyday environments, which degrades the performances of automatic speech recognition systems. These challenging characteristics of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-24 Nelson Yalta , Shinji Watanabe , Takaaki Hori , Kazuhiro Nakadai , Tetsuya Ogata

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are effective models for reducing spectral variations and modeling spectral correlations in acoustic features for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Hybrid speech recognition systems incorporating CNNs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Ying Zhang , Mohammad Pezeshki , Philemon Brakel , Saizheng Zhang , Cesar Laurent Yoshua Bengio , Aaron Courville

End-to-end speech-to-text translation models are often initialized with pre-trained speech encoder and pre-trained text decoder. This leads to a significant training gap between pre-training and fine-tuning, largely due to the modality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jinming Zhao , Hao Yang , Ehsan Shareghi , Gholamreza Haffari

Automatic recognition of disordered and elderly speech remains a highly challenging task to date due to the difficulty in collecting such data in large quantities. This paper explores a series of approaches to integrate domain adapted SSL…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Shujie Hu , Xurong Xie , Zengrui Jin , Mengzhe Geng , Yi Wang , Mingyu Cui , Jiajun Deng , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

This work describes a speech denoising system for machine ears that aims to improve speech intelligibility and the overall listening experience in noisy environments. We recorded approximately 100 hours of audio data with reverberation and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Cong Han , E. Merve Kaya , Kyle Hoefer , Malcolm Slaney , Simon Carlile

Auditory models are commonly used as feature extractors for automatic speech-recognition systems or as front-ends for robotics, machine-hearing and hearing-aid applications. Although auditory models can capture the biophysical and nonlinear…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Deepak Baby , Arthur Van Den Broucke , Sarah Verhulst

In multi-speaker applications is common to have pre-computed models from enrolled speakers. Using these models to identify the instances in which these speakers intervene in a recording is the task of speaker tracking. In this paper, we…

Self-supervised learning models have revolutionized the field of speech processing. However, the process of fine-tuning these models on downstream tasks requires substantial computational resources, particularly when dealing with multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Varsha Suresh , Salah Aït-Mokhtar , Caroline Brun , Ioan Calapodescu