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This paper presents a streaming speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) model that can recognize ``who spoke what'' with low latency even when multiple people are speaking simultaneously. Our model is based on token-level…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 Naoyuki Kanda , Jian Wu , Yu Wu , Xiong Xiao , Zhong Meng , Xiaofei Wang , Yashesh Gaur , Zhuo Chen , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka

Recent advancements in text-to-speech technologies enable generating high-fidelity synthetic speech nearly indistinguishable from real human voices. While recent studies show the efficacy of self-supervised learning-based speech encoders…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kyudan Jung , Jihwan Kim , Minwoo Lee , Soyoon Kim , Jeonghoon Kim , Jaegul Choo , Cheonbok Park

Robust speech recognition systems rely on cloud service providers for inference. It needs to ensure that an untrustworthy provider cannot deduce the sensitive content in speech. Sanitization can be done on speech content keeping in mind…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Afsara Benazir , Felix Xiaozhu Lin

We introduce an approach to identifying speaker names in dialogue transcripts, a crucial task for enhancing content accessibility and searchability in digital media archives. Despite the advancements in speech recognition, the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Minh Nguyen , Franck Dernoncourt , Seunghyun Yoon , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Hao Tan , Ryan Rossi , Quan Hung Tran , Trung Bui , Thien Huu Nguyen

Recent advancements in discrete token-based speech generation have highlighted the importance of token-to-waveform generation for audio quality, particularly in real-time interactions. Traditional frameworks integrating semantic tokens with…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Dake Guo , Jixun Yao , Linhan Ma , He Wang , Lei Xie

Whether it is in the form of transcribed conversations, blog posts, or tweets, qualitative data provides a reader with rich insight into both the overarching trends as well as the diversity of human ideas expressed through text. Handling…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Huyen N. Nguyen , Tommy Dang , Kathleen A. Bowe

In this paper we describe a speaker diarization system that enables localization and identification of all speakers present in a conversation or meeting. We propose a novel systematic approach to tackle several long-standing challenges in…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Siqi Zheng , Weilong Huang , Xianliang Wang , Hongbin Suo , Jinwei Feng , Zhijie Yan

Diffusion-based generative models have greatly impacted the speech processing field in recent years, exhibiting high speech naturalness and spawning a new research direction. Their application in real-time communication is, however, still…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Simon Welker , Bunlong Lay , Maris Hillemann , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

Recently, cycle-consistent adversarial network (Cycle-GAN) has been successfully applied to voice conversion to a different speaker without parallel data, although in those approaches an individual model is needed for each target speaker.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-26 Ju-chieh Chou , Cheng-chieh Yeh , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

A general disentanglement-based speaker anonymization system typically separates speech into content, speaker, and prosody features using individual encoders. This paper explores how to adapt such a system when a new speech attribute, for…

In the scenario of the Voice Privacy challenge, anonymization is achieved by converting all utterances from a source speaker to match the same target identity; this identity being randomly selected. In this context, an attacker with maximum…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Pierre Champion , Denis Jouvet , Anthony Larcher

Overlapping speech remains a major challenge for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in real-world applications, particularly in broadcast media with dynamic, multi-speaker interactions. We propose a light-weight, target-speaker-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Aleš Pražák , Marie Kunešová , Josef Psutka

This paper presents a computationally efficient and distributed speaker diarization framework for networked IoT-style audio devices. The work proposes a Federated Learning model which can identify the participants in a conversation without…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Amit Kumar Bhuyan , Hrishikesh Dutta , Subir Biswas

Voice conversion for speaker anonymization is an emerging field in speech processing research. Many state-of-the-art approaches are based on the resynthesis of the phoneme posteriorgrams (PPG), the fundamental frequency (F0) of the input…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Nils Peters

While audio recordings in real life provide insights into social dynamics and conversational behavior, they also raise concerns about the privacy of personal, sensitive data. This article explores the effectiveness of restricting recordings…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Jule Pohlhausen , Jörg Bitzer

This work introduces the Cleanformer, a streaming multichannel neural based enhancement frontend for automatic speech recognition (ASR). This model has a conformer-based architecture which takes as inputs a single channel each of raw and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Joseph Caroselli , Arun Narayanan , Nathan Howard , Tom O'Malley

Robust speech processing in multi-talker environments requires effective speech separation. Recent deep learning systems have made significant progress toward solving this problem, yet it remains challenging particularly in real-time, short…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Yi Luo , Nima Mesgarani

In this paper, we aim to generate clean speech frame by frame from a live video stream and a noisy audio stream without relying on future inputs. To this end, we propose RT-LA-VocE, which completely re-designs every component of LA-VocE, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Honglie Chen , Rodrigo Mira , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

The goal of this work is to reconstruct speech from a silent talking face video. Recent studies have shown impressive performance on synthesizing speech from silent talking face videos. However, they have not explicitly considered on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Joanna Hong , Minsu Kim , Yong Man Ro

Language models (LMs) have shown superior performances in various speech generation tasks recently, demonstrating their powerful ability for semantic context modeling. Given the intrinsic similarity between speech generation and speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Ziqian Wang , Xinfa Zhu , Zihan Zhang , YuanJun Lv , Ning Jiang , Guoqing Zhao , Lei Xie