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20182025
most citedRecent Developments on ESPnet Toolkit Boosted by Conformer

40 citations · 180 across the 45 of their papers we have counts for

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46 papers

eess.AS2025

Summary on The Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Model Challenge: Datasets, Tasks, Baselines, and Methods

Bingshen Mu, Pengcheng Guo, Zhaokai Sun +8

This paper summarizes the Interspeech2025 Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Model (MLC-SLM) challenge, which aims to advance the exploration of building effective multili…

cs.SD2025

Mixture of LoRA Experts with Multi-Modal and Multi-Granularity LLM Generative Error Correction for Accented Speech Recognition

Bingshen Mu, Kun Wei, Pengcheng Guo +1

Despite improvements in automatic speech recognition, performance drops with accented speech. Generative error correction (GER) leverages the linguistic knowledge of large language…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

OSUM: Advancing Open Speech Understanding Models with Limited Resources in Academia

Xuelong Geng, Kun Wei, Qijie Shao +18

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in various downstream tasks, inspiring the development of Speech Understanding Language Models (SULMs) to enable compreh…

cs.SD2025

DiffAttack: Diffusion-based Timbre-reserved Adversarial Attack in Speaker Identification

Qing Wang, Jixun Yao, Zhaokai Sun +3

Being a form of biometric identification, the security of the speaker identification (SID) system is of utmost importance. To better understand the robustness of SID systems, we ai…

cs.SD2024

Optimizing Dysarthria Wake-Up Word Spotting: An End-to-End Approach for SLT 2024 LRDWWS Challenge

Shuiyun Liu, Yuxiang Kong, Pengcheng Guo +4

Speech has emerged as a widely embraced user interface across diverse applications. However, for individuals with dysarthria, the inherent variability in their speech poses signifi…

eess.AS2024

NPU-NTU System for Voice Privacy 2024 Challenge

Jixun Yao, Nikita Kuzmin, Qing Wang +6

Speaker anonymization is an effective privacy protection solution that conceals the speaker's identity while preserving the linguistic content and paralinguistic information of the…

cs.CL2024

Towards Rehearsal-Free Multilingual ASR: A LoRA-based Case Study on Whisper

Tianyi Xu, Kaixun Huang, Pengcheng Guo +4

Pre-trained multilingual speech foundation models, like Whisper, have shown impressive performance across different languages. However, adapting these models to new or specific lan…

eess.AS2024

MUSA: Multi-lingual Speaker Anonymization via Serial Disentanglement

Jixun Yao, Qing Wang, Pengcheng Guo +4

Speaker anonymization is an effective privacy protection solution designed to conceal the speaker's identity while preserving the linguistic content and para-linguistic information…

eess.AS2024

Distinctive and Natural Speaker Anonymization via Singular Value Transformation-assisted Matrix

Jixun Yao, Qing Wang, Pengcheng Guo +2

Speaker anonymization is an effective privacy protection solution that aims to conceal the speaker's identity while preserving the naturalness and distinctiveness of the original s…

cs.SD2024

Unveiling the Potential of LLM-Based ASR on Chinese Open-Source Datasets

Xuelong Geng, Tianyi Xu, Kun Wei +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated unparalleled effectiveness in various NLP tasks, and integrating LLMs with automatic speech recognition (ASR) is becoming a mainstrea…

cs.CV2024

Enhancing Lip Reading with Multi-Scale Video and Multi-Encoder

He Wang, Pengcheng Guo, Xucheng Wan +2

Automatic lip-reading (ALR) aims to automatically transcribe spoken content from a speaker's silent lip motion captured in video. Current mainstream lip-reading approaches only use…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

The NPU-ASLP-LiAuto System Description for Visual Speech Recognition in CNVSRC 2023

He Wang, Pengcheng Guo, Wei Chen +2

This paper delineates the visual speech recognition (VSR) system introduced by the NPU-ASLP-LiAuto (Team 237) in the first Chinese Continuous Visual Speech Recognition Challenge (C…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

ICMC-ASR: The ICASSP 2024 In-Car Multi-Channel Automatic Speech Recognition Challenge

He Wang, Pengcheng Guo, Yue Li +13

To promote speech processing and recognition research in driving scenarios, we build on the success of the Intelligent Cockpit Speech Recognition Challenge (ICSRC) held at ISCSLP 2…

cs.SD2024

An audio-quality-based multi-strategy approach for target speaker extraction in the MISP 2023 Challenge

Runduo Han, Xiaopeng Yan, Weiming Xu +6

This paper describes our audio-quality-based multi-strategy approach for the audio-visual target speaker extraction (AVTSE) task in the Multi-modal Information based Speech Process…

cs.SD2024★ 24 cited

MLCA-AVSR: Multi-Layer Cross Attention Fusion based Audio-Visual Speech Recognition

He Wang, Pengcheng Guo, Pan Zhou +1

While automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems degrade significantly in noisy environments, audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) systems aim to complement the audio stream with…

cs.SD2023

Automatic channel selection and spatial feature integration for multi-channel speech recognition across various array topologies

Bingshen Mu, Pengcheng Guo, Dake Guo +3

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has shown remarkable progress, yet it still faces challenges in real-world distant scenarios across various array topologies each with multiple r…

cs.SD2023★ 15 cited

Decoupling and Interacting Multi-Task Learning Network for Joint Speech and Accent Recognition

Qijie Shao, Pengcheng Guo, Jinghao Yan +2

Accents, as variations from standard pronunciation, pose significant challenges for speech recognition systems. Although joint automatic speech recognition (ASR) and accent recogni…

cs.SD2023

SA-Paraformer: Non-autoregressive End-to-End Speaker-Attributed ASR

Yangze Li, Fan Yu, Yuhao Liang +5

Joint modeling of multi-speaker ASR and speaker diarization has recently shown promising results in speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR).Although being able to…

cs.SD2023

Timbre-reserved Adversarial Attack in Speaker Identification

Qing Wang, Jixun Yao, Li Zhang +2

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 t…

cs.SD2023★ 1 cited

Adaptive Contextual Biasing for Transducer Based Streaming Speech Recognition

Tianyi Xu, Zhanheng Yang, Kaixun Huang +6

By incorporating additional contextual information, deep biasing methods have emerged as a promising solution for speech recognition of personalized words. However, for real-world…

cs.SD2023★ 1 cited

Pseudo-Siamese Network based Timbre-reserved Black-box Adversarial Attack in Speaker Identification

Qing Wang, Jixun Yao, Ziqian Wang +2

In this study, we propose a timbre-reserved adversarial attack approach for speaker identification (SID) to not only exploit the weakness of the SID model but also preserve the tim…

cs.SD2023

BA-SOT: Boundary-Aware Serialized Output Training for Multi-Talker ASR

Yuhao Liang, Fan Yu, Yangze Li +4

The recently proposed serialized output training (SOT) simplifies multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) by generating speaker transcriptions separated by a special token.…

eess.AS2023★ 5 cited

TranUSR: Phoneme-to-word Transcoder Based Unified Speech Representation Learning for Cross-lingual Speech Recognition

Hongfei Xue, Qijie Shao, Peikun Chen +3

UniSpeech has achieved superior performance in cross-lingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) by explicitly aligning latent representations to phoneme units using multi-task self…

eess.AS2023

Contextualized End-to-End Speech Recognition with Contextual Phrase Prediction Network

Kaixun Huang, Ao Zhang, Zhanheng Yang +4

Contextual information plays a crucial role in speech recognition technologies and incorporating it into the end-to-end speech recognition models has drawn immense interest recentl…