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While there has been substantial amount of work in speaker diarization recently, there are few efforts in jointly employing lexical and acoustic information for speaker segmentation. Towards that, we investigate a speaker diarization system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-29 Tae Jin Park , Panayiotis Georgiou

We introduce VoiceCraft, a token infilling neural codec language model, that achieves state-of-the-art performance on both speech editing and zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) on audiobooks, internet videos, and podcasts. VoiceCraft employs a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Puyuan Peng , Po-Yao Huang , Shang-Wen Li , Abdelrahman Mohamed , David Harwath

We propose an algorithm to extract noise-robust acoustic features from noisy speech. We use Total Variability Modeling in combination with Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) to learn a total variability subspace and adapt NMF…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-17 Kunal Dhawan , Colin Vaz , Ruchir Travadi , Shrikanth Narayanan

End-to-end multilingual speech recognition involves using a single model training on a compositional speech corpus including many languages, resulting in a single neural network to handle transcribing different languages. Due to the fact…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Ngoc-Quan Pham , Tuan-Nam Nguyen , Sebastian Stueker , Alexander Waibel

Traditional voice conversion (VC) methods typically attempt to separate speaker identity and linguistic information into distinct representations, which are then combined to reconstruct the audio. However, effectively disentangling these…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Huu Tuong Tu , Huan Vu , cuong tien nguyen , Dien Hy Ngo , Nguyen Thi Thu Trang

We propose \textbf{U-Codec}, an \textbf{U}ltra low frame-rate neural speech \textbf{Codec} that achieves high-fidelity reconstruction and fast speech generation at an extremely low frame-rate of 5Hz (5 frames per second). Extreme…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xusheng Yang , Long Zhou , Wenfu Wang , Kai Hu , Shulin Feng , Chenxing Li , Meng Yu , Dong Yu , Yuexian Zou

Singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to convert a singer's voice to another singer's from a reference audio while keeping the original semantics. However, existing SVC methods can hardly perform zero-shot due to incomplete feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Zihao Wang , Le Ma , Yongsheng Feng , Xin Pan , Yuhang Jin , Kejun Zhang

This work presents a novel framework based on feed-forward neural network for text-independent speaker classification and verification, two related systems of speaker recognition. With optimized features and model training, it achieves 100%…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Zhenhao Ge , Ananth N. Iyer , Srinath Cheluvaraja , Ram Sundaram , Aravind Ganapathiraju

We present a neural network for rendering binaural speech from given monaural audio, position, and orientation of the source. Most of the previous works have focused on synthesizing binaural speeches by conditioning the positions and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Jin Woo Lee , Kyogu Lee

This study tackles unsupervised subword modeling in the zero-resource scenario, learning frame-level speech representation that is phonetically discriminative and speaker-invariant, using only untranscribed speech for target languages.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Siyuan Feng , Tan Lee

Self-supervised speech models learn representations that capture both content and speaker information. Yet this entanglement creates problems: content tasks suffer from speaker bias, and privacy concerns arise when speaker identity leaks…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xiaoxu Zhu , Junhua Li , Aaron J. Li , Guangchao Yao , Xiaojie Yu

Noise suppression (NS) algorithms are effective in improving speech quality in many cases. However, aggressive noise suppression can damage the target speech, reducing both speech intelligibility and quality despite removing the noise. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Kyungguen Byun , Jason Filos , Erik Visser , Sunkuk Moon

In real-world scenarios, speech signals are inevitably corrupted by various types of interference, making speech enhancement (SE) a critical task for robust speech processing. However, most existing SE methods only handle a limited range of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Fei Liu , Yang Ai , Ye-Xin Lu , Rui-Chen Zheng , Hui-Peng Du , Zhen-Hua Ling

In reverberant conditions with multiple concurrent speakers, each microphone acquires a mixture signal of multiple speakers at a different location. In over-determined conditions where the microphones out-number speakers, we can narrow down…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe

We study two foundational problems in audio language models: (1) how to design an audio tokenizer that can serve as an intermediate representation for both understanding and generation; and (2) how to build an audio foundation model that…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Dongchao Yang , Yuanyuan Wang , Dading Chong , Songxiang Liu , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

In this study, we propose the global context guided channel and time-frequency transformations to model the long-range, non-local time-frequency dependencies and channel variances in speaker representations. We use the global context…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Wei Xia , John H. L. Hansen

Reverberation is damaging to both the quality and the intelligibility of a speech signal. We propose a novel single-channel method of dereverberation based on a linear filter in the Short Time Fourier Transform domain. Each enhanced frame…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Richard Stanton , Mike Brookes

Contrastive predictive coding (CPC) aims to learn representations of speech by distinguishing future observations from a set of negative examples. Previous work has shown that linear classifiers trained on CPC features can accurately…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Benjamin van Niekerk , Leanne Nortje , Matthew Baas , Herman Kamper

Zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech (ZSM-TTS) models aim to generate a speech sample with the voice characteristic of an unseen speaker. The main challenge of ZSM-TTS is to increase the overall speaker similarity for unseen speakers. One…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-28 Byoung Jin Choi , Myeonghun Jeong , Joun Yeop Lee , Nam Soo Kim

Speech time reversal refers to the process of reversing the entire speech signal in time, causing it to play backward. Such signals are completely unintelligible since the fundamental structures of phonemes and syllables are destroyed.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Ishan D. Biyani , Nirmesh J. Shah , Ashishkumar P. Gudmalwar , Pankaj Wasnik , Rajiv R. Shah