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Target speech separation is the process of filtering a certain speaker's voice out of speech mixtures according to the additional speaker identity information provided. Recent works have made considerable improvement by processing signals…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Qingjian Lin , Lin Yang , Xuyang Wang , Luyuan Xie , Chen Jia , Junjie Wang

Real-time voice conversion and speaker anonymization require causal, low-latency synthesis without sacrificing intelligibility or naturalness. Current systems have a core representational mismatch: content is time-varying, while speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Waris Quamer , Mu-Ruei Tseng , Ghady Nasrallah , Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

This paper integrates a voice activity detection (VAD) function with end-to-end automatic speech recognition toward an online speech interface and transcribing very long audio recordings. We focus on connectionist temporal classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Takenori Yoshimura , Tomoki Hayashi , Kazuya Takeda , Shinji Watanabe

For speech interaction, voice activity detection (VAD) is often used as a front-end. However, traditional VAD algorithms usually need to wait for a continuous tail silence to reach a preset maximum duration before segmentation, resulting in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Mohan Shi , Yuchun Shu , Lingyun Zuo , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Jie Zhang , Li-Rong Dai

Voice Conversion(VC) refers to changing the timbre of a speech while retaining the discourse content. Recently, many works have focused on disentangle-based learning techniques to separate the timbre and the linguistic content information…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Huaizhen Tang , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

This study investigates the explainability of embedding representations, specifically those used in modern audio spoofing detection systems based on deep neural networks, known as spoof embeddings. Building on established work in speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Xuechen Liu , Junichi Yamagishi , Md Sahidullah , Tomi kinnunen

Flattery is an important aspect of human communication that facilitates social bonding, shapes perceptions, and influences behavior through strategic compliments and praise, leveraging the power of speech to build rapport effectively. Its…

Recent advancements in Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have enabled the generation of natural and expressive speech from textual input. Accented TTS aims to enhance user experience by making the synthesized speech more relatable to minority…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Jan Melechovsky , Ambuj Mehrish , Berrak Sisman , Dorien Herremans

Voice activity detection is an essential pre-processing component for speech-related tasks such as automatic speech recognition (ASR). Traditional supervised VAD systems obtain frame-level labels from an ASR pipeline by using, e.g., a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Heinrich Dinkel , Shuai Wang , Xuenan Xu , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

In the age of music streaming platforms, the task of automatically tagging music audio has garnered significant attention, driving researchers to devise methods aimed at enhancing performance metrics on standard datasets. Most recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Vassilis Lyberatos , Spyridon Kantarelis , Edmund Dervakos , Giorgos Stamou

While deep learning based speech enhancement systems have made rapid progress in improving the quality of speech signals, they can still produce outputs that contain artifacts and can sound unnatural. We propose a novel approach to speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Muqiao Yang , Joseph Konan , David Bick , Anurag Kumar , Shinji Watanabe , Bhiksha Raj

While deep learning models have demonstrated robust performance in speaker recognition tasks, they primarily rely on low-level audio features learned empirically from spectrograms or raw waveforms. However, prior work has indicated that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Nick Mehlman , Thomas Thebaud , Dani Byrd , Shri Narayanan

We propose a 3D neural network with specific loss functions for quantitative computed tomography (QCT) noise reduction to compute micro-structural parameters such as tissue mineral density (TMD) and bone volume ratio (BV/TV) with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Felix Thomsen , José M. Fuertes García , Manuel Lucena , Juan Pisula , Rodrigo de Luis García , Jan Broggrefe , Claudio Delrieux

As a type of biometric identification, a speaker identification (SID) system is confronted with various kinds of attacks. The spoofing attacks typically imitate the timbre of the target speakers, while the adversarial attacks confuse the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Qing Wang , Jixun Yao , Li Zhang , Pengcheng Guo , Lei Xie

Traditional supervised voice activity detection (VAD) methods work well in clean and controlled scenarios, with performance severely degrading in real-world applications. One possible bottleneck is that speech in the wild contains…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Heinrich Dinkel , Yefei Chen , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Fr\'echet Audio Distance (FAD) is the de facto standard for evaluating text-to-audio generation, yet its scores depend on the underlying encoder's embedding space. An encoder's training task dictates which acoustic features are preserved or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Wonwoo Jeong

Recently deep neural networks (DNNs) have been used to learn speaker features. However, the quality of the learned features is not sufficiently good, so a complex back-end model, either neural or probabilistic, has to be used to address the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Lantian Li , Yixiang Chen , Ying Shi , Zhiyuan Tang , Dong Wang

The x-vector based deep neural network (DNN) embedding systems have demonstrated effectiveness for text-independent speaker verification. This paper presents a multi-task learning architecture for training the speaker embedding DNN with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-05 Lanhua You , Wu Guo , Lirong Dai , Jun Du

There are a variety of features of the human voice that can be classified as pitch, timbre, loudness, and vocal tone. It is observed in numerous incidents that human expresses their feelings using different vocal qualities when they are…

Disentanglement is the task of learning representations that identify and separate factors that explain the variation observed in data. Disentangled representations are useful to increase the generalizability, explainability, and fairness…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Michael Kuhlmann , Adrian Meise , Fritz Seebauer , Petra Wagner , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach