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Results reported in large-scale multilingual evaluations are often fragmented and confounded by factors such as target languages, differences in experimental setups, and model choices. We propose a framework that disentangles these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Songbo Hu , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen

Text-independent speaker verification is an important artificial intelligence problem that has a wide spectrum of applications, such as criminal investigation, payment certification, and interest-based customer services. The purpose of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Jiwei Xu , Xinggang Wang , Bin Feng , Wenyu Liu

The effects of language mismatch impact speech anti-spoofing systems, while investigations and quantification of these effects remain limited. Existing anti-spoofing datasets are mainly in English, and the high cost of acquiring…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Tianchi Liu , Ivan Kukanov , Zihan Pan , Qiongqiong Wang , Hardik B. Sailor , Kong Aik Lee

With its crosslinguistic and cross-speaker diversity, the Mozilla Common Voice Corpus (CV) has been a valuable resource for multilingual speech technology and holds tremendous potential for research in crosslinguistic phonetics and speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Miao Zhang , Aref Farhadipour , Annie Baker , Jiachen Ma , Bogdan Pricop , Eleanor Chodroff

Preserving a speaker's voice identity while generating speech in a different language remains a fundamental challenge in spoken language technology, particularly in specialized domains such as scientific communication. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Amanuel Gizachew Abebe , Yasmin Moslem

Due to the substantial number of clinicians, patients, and data collection environments involved in clinical trials, gathering data of superior quality poses a significant challenge. In clinical trials, patients are assessed based on their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ali Akram , Marija Stanojevic , Malikeh Ehghaghi , Jekaterina Novikova

Speaker Verification (SV) is a task to verify the claimed identity of the claimant using his/her voice sample. Though there exists an ample amount of research in SV technologies, the development concerning a multilingual conversation is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Jagabandhu Mishra , Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee , S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in Natural Language Processing (NLP), yet their cross-lingual performance consistency remains a significant challenge. This paper introduces a novel methodology for efficiently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zixiang Xu , Yanbo Wang , Yue Huang , Xiuying Chen , Jieyu Zhao , Meng Jiang , Xiangliang Zhang

The diversity of human language, shaped by social, cultural, and regional influences, presents significant challenges for natural language processing (NLP) systems. Existing benchmarks often overlook intra-language variations, leaving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Abhay Gupta , Jacob Cheung , Philip Meng , Shayan Sayyed , Austen Liao , Kevin Zhu , Sean O'Brien

We present the Voice Conversion Challenge 2018, designed as a follow up to the 2016 edition with the aim of providing a common framework for evaluating and comparing different state-of-the-art voice conversion (VC) systems. The objective of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-13 Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba , Junichi Yamagishi , Tomoki Toda , Daisuke Saito , Fernando Villavicencio , Tomi Kinnunen , Zhenhua Ling

Modeling voices for multiple speakers and multiple languages in one text-to-speech system has been a challenge for a long time. This paper presents an extension on Tacotron2 to achieve bilingual multispeaker speech synthesis when there are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-22 Zexin Cai , Yaogen Yang , Ming Li

Language Identification (LID) is a core task in multilingual NLP, yet current systems often overfit to clean, monolingual data. This work introduces DIVERS-BENCH, a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art LID models across diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jessica Ojo , Zina Kamel , David Ifeoluwa Adelani

The INTERSPEECH 2020 Far-Field Speaker Verification Challenge (FFSVC 2020) addresses three different research problems under well-defined conditions: far-field text-dependent speaker verification from single microphone array, far-field…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li , Hui Bu , Wei Rao , Rohan Kumar Das , Shrikanth Narayanan , Haizhou Li

This paper is concerned with the task of speaker verification on audio with multiple overlapping speakers. Most speaker verification systems are designed with the assumption of a single speaker being present in a given audio segment.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Jenthe Thienpondt , Nilesh Madhu , Kris Demuynck

The first spoofing-aware speaker verification (SASV) challenge aims to integrate research efforts in speaker verification and anti-spoofing. We extend the speaker verification scenario by introducing spoofed trials to the usual set of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Jee-weon Jung , Hemlata Tak , Hye-jin Shim , Hee-Soo Heo , Bong-Jin Lee , Soo-Whan Chung , Ha-Jin Yu , Nicholas Evans , Tomi Kinnunen

Previous multilingual benchmarks focus primarily on simple understanding tasks, but for large language models(LLMs), we emphasize proficiency in instruction following, reasoning, long context understanding, code generation, and so on.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xu Huang , Wenhao Zhu , Hanxu Hu , Conghui He , Lei Li , Shujian Huang , Fei Yuan

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

This paper introduces an efficient and accurate pipeline for text-dependent speaker verification (TDSV), designed to address the need for high-performance biometric systems. The proposed system incorporates a Fast-Conformer-based ASR module…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mohammadreza Molavi , Reza Khodadadi

Recent progress in generative AI has made it increasingly easy to create natural-sounding deepfake speech from just a few seconds of audio. While these tools support helpful applications, they also raise serious concerns by making it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Xi Xuan , Yang Xiao , Rohan Kumar Das , Tomi Kinnunen

Representing speech and audio signals in discrete units has become a compelling alternative to traditional high-dimensional feature vectors. Numerous studies have highlighted the efficacy of discrete units in various applications such as…