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Speech emotion recognition is a vital contributor to the next generation of human-computer interaction (HCI). However, current existing small-scale databases have limited the development of related research. In this paper, we present LSSED,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Weiquan Fan , Xiangmin Xu , Xiaofen Xing , Weidong Chen , Dongyan Huang

We present an efficient and realistic geometric acoustic simulation approach for generating and augmenting training data in speech-related machine learning tasks. Our physically-based acoustic simulation method is capable of modeling…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Zhenyu Tang , Lianwu Chen , Bo Wu , Dong Yu , Dinesh Manocha

In recent years, deep learning based source separation has achieved impressive results. Most studies, however, still evaluate separation models on synthetic datasets, while the performance of state-of-the-art techniques on in-the-wild…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Cem Subakan , Mirco Ravanelli , Samuele Cornell , François Grondin

In our previous work, we introduced CosyVoice, a multilingual speech synthesis model based on supervised discrete speech tokens. By employing progressive semantic decoding with two popular generative models, language models (LMs) and Flow…

Recent progress in singing voice separation has primarily focused on supervised deep learning methods. However, the scarcity of ground-truth data with clean musical sources has been a problem for long. Given a limited set of labeled data,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Zhepei Wang , Ritwik Giri , Umut Isik , Jean-Marc Valin , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

We propose a new dataset for cinematic audio source separation (CASS) that handles non-verbal sounds. Existing CASS datasets only contain reading-style sounds as a speech stem. These datasets differ from actual movie audio, which is more…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Takuya Hasumi , Yusuke Fujita

With the emergence of neural audio codecs, which encode multiple streams of discrete tokens from audio, large language models have recently gained attention as a promising approach for zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis. Despite the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-04 Jaehyeon Kim , Keon Lee , Seungjun Chung , Jaewoong Cho

Imitation learning field requires expert data to train agents in a task. Most often, this learning approach suffers from the absence of available data, which results in techniques being tested on its dataset. Creating datasets is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Nathan Gavenski , Michael Luck , Odinaldo Rodrigues

Compared with ample visual-text pre-training research, few works explore audio-text pre-training, mostly due to the lack of sufficient parallel audio-text data. Most existing methods incorporate the visual modality as a pivot for audio-text…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Xuenan Xu , Zhiling Zhang , Zelin Zhou , Pingyue Zhang , Zeyu Xie , Mengyue Wu , Kenny Q. Zhu

Most research in synthetic speech detection (SSD) focuses on improving performance on standard noise-free datasets. However, in actual situations, noise interference is usually present, causing significant performance degradation in SSD…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Cunhang Fan , Mingming Ding , Jianhua Tao , Ruibo Fu , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen , Zhao Lv

Text-based games present a unique challenge for autonomous agents to operate in natural language and handle enormous action spaces. In this paper, we propose the Contextual Action Language Model (CALM) to generate a compact set of action…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Shunyu Yao , Rohan Rao , Matthew Hausknecht , Karthik Narasimhan

The increasing adoption of text-to-speech technologies has led to a growing demand for natural and emotive voices that adapt to a conversation's context and emotional tone. The Emotive Narrative Storytelling (EMNS) corpus is a unique speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Kari Ali Noriy , Xiaosong Yang , Jian Jun Zhang

The past decade has witnessed substantial growth of data-driven speech enhancement (SE) techniques thanks to deep learning. While existing approaches have shown impressive performance in some common datasets, most of them are designed only…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Wangyou Zhang , Kohei Saijo , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

Speech enhancement is a critical component of many user-oriented audio applications, yet current systems still suffer from distorted and unnatural outputs. While generative models have shown strong potential in speech synthesis, they are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Yen-Ju Lu , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Alexander Richard , Cheng Yu , Yu Tsao

While recent neural sequence-to-sequence models have greatly improved the quality of speech synthesis, there has not been a system capable of fast training, fast inference and high-quality audio synthesis at the same time. We propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Jan Vainer , Ondřej Dušek

This paper describes the synthesis of the room acoustics challenge as a part of the generative data augmentation workshop at ICASSP 2025. The challenge defines a unique generative task that is designed to improve the quantity and diversity…

Massive web datasets play a key role in the success of large vision-language models like CLIP and Flamingo. However, the raw web data is noisy, and existing filtering methods to reduce noise often come at the expense of data diversity. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Thao Nguyen , Samir Yitzhak Gadre , Gabriel Ilharco , Sewoong Oh , Ludwig Schmidt

Recordings gathered with child-worn devices promised to revolutionize both fundamental and applied speech sciences by allowing the effortless capture of children's naturalistic speech environment and language production. This promise hinges…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tarek Kunze , Marianne Métais , Hadrien Titeux , Lucas Elbert , Joseph Coffey , Emmanuel Dupoux , Alejandrina Cristia , Marvin Lavechin

Replay speech attacks pose a significant threat to voice-controlled systems, especially in smart environments where voice assistants are widely deployed. While multi-channel audio offers spatial cues that can enhance replay detection…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Michael Neri , Tuomas Virtanen

Cross-lingual synthesis can be defined as the task of letting a speaker generate fluent synthetic speech in another language. This is a challenging task, and resulting speech can suffer from reduced naturalness, accented speech, and/or loss…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Marcel de Korte , Jaebok Kim , Aki Kunikoshi , Adaeze Adigwe , Esther Klabbers