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We live in a world where 60% of the population can speak two or more languages fluently. Members of these communities constantly switch between languages when having a conversation. As automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Siddharth Dalmia , Yuzong Liu , Srikanth Ronanki , Katrin Kirchhoff

Speech classification tasks often require powerful language understanding models to grasp useful features, which becomes problematic when limited training data is available. To attain superior classification performance, we propose to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Andrei Anghel , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Far-field speech recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions remains a challenging problem despite recent deep learning breakthroughs. This problem is commonly addressed by acquiring a speech signal from multiple microphones and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-17 Zhong Meng , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey , Hakan Erdogan

The front-end module in multi-channel automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems mainly use microphone array techniques to produce enhanced signals in noisy conditions with reverberation and echos. Recently, neural network (NN) based…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Yuxiang Kong , Jian Wu , Quandong Wang , Peng Gao , Weiji Zhuang , Yujun Wang , Lei Xie

This paper describes our RoyalFlush system for the track of multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) in the M2MeT challenge. We adopted the serialized output training (SOT) based multi-speakers ASR system with large-scale simulation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Shuaishuai Ye , Peiyao Wang , Shunfei Chen , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

Self-supervised speech pre-training methods have developed rapidly in recent years, which show to be very effective for many near-field single-channel speech tasks. However, far-field multichannel speech processing is suffering from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Qiushi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Yu Gu , Yuchen Hu , Lirong Dai

Extending the RNN Transducer (RNNT) to recognize multi-talker speech is essential for wider automatic speech recognition (ASR) applications. Multi-talker RNNT (MT-RNNT) aims to achieve recognition without relying on costly front-end source…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Takafumi Moriya , Shota Horiguchi , Marc Delcroix , Ryo Masumura , Takanori Ashihara , Hiroshi Sato , Kohei Matsuura , Masato Mimura

Recently studies on time-domain audio separation networks (TasNets) have made a great stride in speech separation. One of the most representative TasNets is a network with a dual-path segmentation approach. However, the original model…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Yinhao Xu , Jian Zhou , Liang Tao , Hon Keung Kwan

Transformer has shown advanced performance in speech separation, benefiting from its ability to capture global features. However, capturing local features and channel information of audio sequences in speech separation is equally important.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , Wenjing Zhu

Transformers are powerful neural architectures that allow integrating different modalities using attention mechanisms. In this paper, we leverage the neural transformer architectures for multi-channel speech recognition systems, where the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Feng-Ju Chang , Martin Radfar , Athanasios Mouchtaris , Brian King , Siegfried Kunzmann

This paper addresses end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) for long audio recordings such as lecture and conversational speeches. Most end-to-end ASR models are designed to recognize independent utterances, but contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Takaaki Hori , Niko Moritz , Chiori Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

This paper addresses the problem of multi-channel multi-speech separation based on deep learning techniques. In the short time Fourier transform domain, we propose an end-to-end narrow-band network that directly takes as input the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Changsheng Quan , Xiaofei Li

Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) in multi-party meeting scenarios is one of the most valuable and challenging ASR task. It was shown that single-channel frame-level diarization with serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Mohan Shi , Jie Zhang , Zhihao Du , Fan Yu , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Li-Rong Dai

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

Distant-microphone meeting transcription is a challenging task. State-of-the-art end-to-end speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) architectures lack a multichannel noise and reverberation reduction front-end, which limits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Can Cui , Imran Ahamad Sheikh , Mostafa Sadeghi , Emmanuel Vincent

Recent research shows end-to-end ASR systems can recognize overlapped speech from multiple speakers. However, all published works have assumed no latency constraints during inference, which does not hold for most voice assistant…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-22 Ilya Sklyar , Anna Piunova , Yulan Liu

Multi-channel speech separation using speaker's directional information has demonstrated significant gains over blind speech separation. However, it has two limitations. First, substantial performance degradation is observed when the coming…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Rongzhi Gu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

Joint optimization of multi-channel front-end and automatic speech recognition (ASR) has attracted much interest. While promising results have been reported for various tasks, past studies on its meeting transcription application were…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Xiaofei Wang , Naoyuki Kanda , Yashesh Gaur , Zhuo Chen , Zhong Meng , Takuya Yoshioka

With the advances in deep learning, the performance of end-to-end (E2E) single-task models for speech and audio processing has been constantly improving. However, it is still challenging to build a general-purpose model with high…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Xiaoyu Yang , Qiujia Li , Chao Zhang , Phil Woodland

Recent deep multi-view stereo (MVS) methods have widely incorporated transformers into cascade network for high-resolution depth estimation, achieving impressive results. However, existing transformer-based methods are constrained by their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Sicheng Wang , Hao Jiang , Lei Xiang