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Improving Predicted MOS Scores, Not Perceived Quality: Multi-Predictor Test-Time Optimization of Enhanced Speech
Tsubasa Ochiai, Marc Delcroix, Nahomi Kusunoki +5
Non-intrusive MOS predictors are widely used instead of subjective listening tests to evaluate and rank speech enhancement (SE) systems. If they accurately reflect perceived qualit…
Frontend Token Enhancement for Token-Based Speech Recognition
Takanori Ashihara, Shota Horiguchi, Kohei Matsuura +2
Discretized representations of speech signals are efficient alternatives to continuous features for various speech applications, including automatic speech recognition (ASR) and sp…
Joint Enhancement and Classification using Coupled Diffusion Models of Signals and Logits
Gilad Nurko, Roi Benita, Yehoshua Dissen +4
Robust classification in noisy environments remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning. Standard approaches typically treat signal enhancement and classification as separa…
Reference Microphone Selection for Guided Source Separation based on the Normalized L-p Norm
Anselm Lohmann, Tomohiro Nakatani, Rintaro Ikeshita +3
Guided Source Separation (GSS) is a popular front-end for distant automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems using spatially distributed microphones. When considering spatially dis…
Can We Really Repurpose Multi-Speaker ASR Corpus for Speaker Diarization?
Shota Horiguchi, Naohiro Tawara, Takanori Ashihara +2
Neural speaker diarization is widely used for overlap-aware speaker diarization, but it requires large multi-speaker datasets for training. To meet this data requirement, large dat…
MOVER: Combining Multiple Meeting Recognition Systems
Naoyuki Kamo, Tsubasa Ochiai, Marc Delcroix +1
In this paper, we propose Meeting recognizer Output Voting Error Reduction (MOVER), a novel system combination method for meeting recognition tasks. Although there are methods to c…
Generic Speech Enhancement with Self-Supervised Representation Space Loss
Hiroshi Sato, Tsubasa Ochiai, Marc Delcroix +3
Single-channel speech enhancement is utilized in various tasks to mitigate the effect of interfering signals. Conventionally, to ensure the speech enhancement performs optimally, t…
Mitigating Non-Target Speaker Bias in Guided Speaker Embedding
Shota Horiguchi, Takanori Ashihara, Marc Delcroix +2
Obtaining high-quality speaker embeddings in multi-speaker conditions is crucial for many applications. A recently proposed guided speaker embedding framework, which utilizes speec…
Dissecting the Segmentation Model of End-to-End Diarization with Vector Clustering
Alexis Plaquet, Naohiro Tawara, Marc Delcroix +4
End-to-End Neural Diarization with Vector Clustering is a powerful and practical approach to perform Speaker Diarization. Multiple enhancements have been proposed for the segmentat…
Description and Discussion on DCASE 2025 Challenge Task 4: Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes
Masahiro Yasuda, Binh Thien Nguyen, Noboru Harada +10
Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes (S5) aims to enhance technologies for sound event detection and separation from multi-channel input signals that mix multiple sound ev…
Pretraining Multi-Speaker Identification for Neural Speaker Diarization
Shota Horiguchi, Atsushi Ando, Marc Delcroix +1
End-to-end speaker diarization enables accurate overlap-aware diarization by jointly estimating multiple speakers' speech activities in parallel. This approach is data-hungry, requ…
TS-SUPERB: A Target Speech Processing Benchmark for Speech Self-Supervised Learning Models
Junyi Peng, Takanori Ashihara, Marc Delcroix +4
Self-supervised learning (SSL) models have significantly advanced speech processing tasks, and several benchmarks have been proposed to validate their effectiveness. However, previ…
Microphone Array Geometry Independent Multi-Talker Distant ASR: NTT System for the DASR Task of the CHiME-8 Challenge
Naoyuki Kamo, Naohiro Tawara, Atsushi Ando +15
In this paper, we introduce a multi-talker distant automatic speech recognition (DASR) system we designed for the DASR task 1 of the CHiME-8 challenge. Our system performs speaker…
Microphone Array Signal Processing and Deep Learning for Speech Enhancement
Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Tomohiro Nakatani, Marc Delcroix +2
Multi-channel acoustic signal processing is a well-established and powerful tool to exploit the spatial diversity between a target signal and non-target or noise sources for signal…
Joint Training of Speaker Embedding Extractor, Speech and Overlap Detection for Diarization
Petr Pálka, Federico Landini, Dominik Klement +4
In spite of the popularity of end-to-end diarization systems nowadays, modular systems comprised of voice activity detection (VAD), speaker embedding extraction plus clustering, an…
Investigation of Speaker Representation for Target-Speaker Speech Processing
Takanori Ashihara, Takafumi Moriya, Shota Horiguchi +5
Target-speaker speech processing (TS) tasks, such as target-speaker automatic speech recognition (TS-ASR), target speech extraction (TSE), and personal voice activity detection (p-…
Mamba-based Segmentation Model for Speaker Diarization
Alexis Plaquet, Naohiro Tawara, Marc Delcroix +3
Mamba is a newly proposed architecture which behaves like a recurrent neural network (RNN) with attention-like capabilities. These properties are promising for speaker diarization,…
Guided Speaker Embedding
Shota Horiguchi, Takafumi Moriya, Atsushi Ando +4
This paper proposes a guided speaker embedding extraction system, which extracts speaker embeddings of the target speaker using speech activities of target and interference speaker…
Alignment-Free Training for Transducer-based Multi-Talker ASR
Takafumi Moriya, Shota Horiguchi, Marc Delcroix +5
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 ach…
SoundBeam meets M2D: Target Sound Extraction with Audio Foundation Model
Carlos Hernandez-Olivan, Marc Delcroix, Tsubasa Ochiai +4
Target sound extraction (TSE) consists of isolating a desired sound from a mixture of arbitrary sounds using clues to identify it. A TSE system requires solving two problems at onc…
NTT Multi-Speaker ASR System for the DASR Task of CHiME-8 Challenge
Naoyuki Kamo, Naohiro Tawara, Atsushi Ando +15
We present a distant automatic speech recognition (DASR) system developed for the CHiME-8 DASR track. It consists of a diarization first pipeline. For diarization, we use end-to-en…
Recursive Attentive Pooling for Extracting Speaker Embeddings from Multi-Speaker Recordings
Shota Horiguchi, Atsushi Ando, Takafumi Moriya +4
This paper proposes a method for extracting speaker embedding for each speaker from a variable-length recording containing multiple speakers. Speaker embeddings are crucial not onl…
Interaural time difference loss for binaural target sound extraction
Carlos Hernandez-Olivan, Marc Delcroix, Tsubasa Ochiai +3
Binaural target sound extraction (TSE) aims to extract a desired sound from a binaural mixture of arbitrary sounds while preserving the spatial cues of the desired sound. Indeed, f…
Sentence-wise Speech Summarization: Task, Datasets, and End-to-End Modeling with LM Knowledge Distillation
Kohei Matsuura, Takanori Ashihara, Takafumi Moriya +4
This paper introduces a novel approach called sentence-wise speech summarization (Sen-SSum), which generates text summaries from a spoken document in a sentence-by-sentence manner.…