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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

We propose a novel approach to enable the use of large, single-speaker ASR models, such as Whisper, for target speaker ASR. The key claim of this method is that it is much easier to model relative differences among speakers by learning to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Alexander Polok , Dominik Klement , Matthew Wiesner , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Jan Černocký , Lukáš Burget

This paper investigates a self-adaptation method for speech enhancement using auxiliary speaker-aware features; we extract a speaker representation used for adaptation directly from the test utterance. Conventional studies of deep neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Yuma Koizumi , Kohei Yatabe , Marc Delcroix , Yoshiki Masuyama , Daiki Takeuchi

Transformer models have been used in automatic speech recognition (ASR) successfully and yields state-of-the-art results. However, its performance is still affected by speaker mismatch between training and test data. Further finetuning a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Yingzhu Zhao , Chongjia Ni , Cheung-Chi Leung , Shafiq Joty , Eng Siong Chng , Bin Ma

Traditional speech separation and speaker diarization approaches rely on prior knowledge of target speakers or a predetermined number of participants in audio signals. To address these limitations, recent advances focus on developing…

The Streaming Unmixing and Recognition Transducer (SURT) has recently become a popular framework for continuous, streaming, multi-talker speech recognition (ASR). With advances in architecture, objectives, and mixture simulation methods, it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Desh Raj , Matthew Wiesner , Matthew Maciejewski , Leibny Paola Garcia-Perera , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

An increasingly common training paradigm for multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) is to use speaker activity signals to adapt single-speaker ASR models for overlapping speech. Although effective, these systems require running the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Xiluo He , Alexander Polok , Jesús Villalba , Thomas Thebaud , Matthew Maciejewski

Text mismatch between pre-collected data, either training data or enrollment data, and the actual test data can significantly hurt text-dependent speaker verification (SV) system performance. Although this problem can be solved by carefully…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Yexin Yang , Shuai Wang , Xun Gong , Yanmin Qian , Kai Yu

Despite the rapid progress of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies targeting normal speech in recent decades, accurate recognition of dysarthric and elderly speech remains highly challenging tasks to date. Sources of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Mengzhe Geng , Xurong Xie , Zi Ye , Tianzi Wang , Guinan Li , Shujie Hu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL), which utilizes the input data itself for representation learning, has achieved state-of-the-art results for various downstream speech tasks. However, most of the previous studies focused on offline…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Zili Huang , Zhuo Chen , Naoyuki Kanda , Jian Wu , Yiming Wang , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka , Xiaofei Wang , Peidong Wang

End-to-end models are fast replacing the conventional hybrid models in automatic speech recognition. Transformer, a sequence-to-sequence model, based on self-attention popularly used in machine translation tasks, has given promising results…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-19 Vishwas M. Shetty , Metilda Sagaya Mary N J , S. Umesh

In the field of multi-channel, multi-speaker Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the task of discerning and accurately transcribing a target speaker's speech within background noise remains a formidable challenge. Traditional approaches…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Yiwen Shao , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Dong Yu , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

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

Benefiting from massive and diverse data sources, speech foundation models exhibit strong generalization and knowledge transfer capabilities to a wide range of downstream tasks. However, a limitation arises from their exclusive handling of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Pengcheng Guo , Xuankai Chang , Hang Lv , Shinji Watanabe , Lei Xie

Multi-talker overlapped speech recognition remains a significant challenge, requiring not only speech recognition but also speaker diarization tasks to be addressed. In this paper, to better address these tasks, we first introduce speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Peng Shen , Xugang Lu , Hisashi Kawai

In this paper, we propose a novel technique for direct recognition of multiple speech streams given the single channel of mixed speech, without first separating them. Our technique is based on permutation invariant training (PIT) for…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Dong Yu , Xuankai Chang , Yanmin Qian

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) of multi-channel multi-speaker overlapped speech remains one of the most challenging tasks to the speech community. In this paper, we look into this challenge by utilizing the location information of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yiwen Shao , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

In real-world applications, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems must handle overlapping speech from multiple speakers and recognize rare words like technical terms. Traditional methods address multi-talker ASR and contextual biasing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Jiajun He , Naoki Sawada , Koichi Miyazaki , Tomoki Toda

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