activity
20192025
most citedUnsupervised Data Selection for TTS: Using Arabic Broadcast News as a Case Study

4 citations · 18 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

26 papers

eess.AS2025

ASVspoof 5: Design, Collection and Validation of Resources for Spoofing, Deepfake, and Adversarial Attack Detection Using Crowdsourced Speech

Xin Wang, Héctor Delgado, Hemlata Tak +26

ASVspoof 5 is the fifth edition in a series of challenges which promote the study of speech spoofing and deepfake attacks as well as the design of detection solutions. We introduce…

cs.SD2024

SpoofCeleb: Speech Deepfake Detection and SASV In The Wild

Jee-weon Jung, Yihan Wu, Xin Wang +11

This paper introduces SpoofCeleb, a dataset designed for Speech Deepfake Detection (SDD) and Spoofing-robust Automatic Speaker Verification (SASV), utilizing source data from real-…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

Text-To-Speech Synthesis In The Wild

Jee-weon Jung, Wangyou Zhang, Soumi Maiti +11

Traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems rely on studio-quality speech recorded in controlled settings.a Recently, an effort known as noisy-TTS training has emerged, aiming to util…

eess.AS2024

SynesLM: A Unified Approach for Audio-visual Speech Recognition and Translation via Language Model and Synthetic Data

Yichen Lu, Jiaqi Song, Xuankai Chang +3

In this work, we present SynesLM, an unified model which can perform three multimodal language understanding tasks: audio-visual automatic speech recognition(AV-ASR) and visual-aid…

cs.CL2024

Towards Robust Speech Representation Learning for Thousands of Languages

William Chen, Wangyou Zhang, Yifan Peng +7

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has helped extend speech technologies to more languages by reducing the need for labeled data. However, models are still far from supporting the worl…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

TMT: Tri-Modal Translation between Speech, Image, and Text by Processing Different Modalities as Different Languages

Minsu Kim, Jee-weon Jung, Hyeongseop Rha +5

The capability to jointly process multi-modal information is becoming an essential task. However, the limited number of paired multi-modal data and the large computational requirem…

cs.CL2024

SpeechComposer: Unifying Multiple Speech Tasks with Prompt Composition

Yihan Wu, Soumi Maiti, Yifan Peng +6

Recent advancements in language models have significantly enhanced performance in multiple speech-related tasks. Existing speech language models typically utilize task-dependent pr…

cs.SD2024

SpeechBERTScore: Reference-Aware Automatic Evaluation of Speech Generation Leveraging NLP Evaluation Metrics

Takaaki Saeki, Soumi Maiti, Shinnosuke Takamichi +2

While subjective assessments have been the gold standard for evaluating speech generation, there is a growing need for objective metrics that are highly correlated with human subje…

cs.CL2023

Reproducing Whisper-Style Training Using an Open-Source Toolkit and Publicly Available Data

Yifan Peng, Jinchuan Tian, Brian Yan +13

Pre-training speech models on large volumes of data has achieved remarkable success. OpenAI Whisper is a multilingual multitask model trained on 680k hours of supervised speech dat…

cs.CL2023

Evaluating Speech Synthesis by Training Recognizers on Synthetic Speech

Dareen Alharthi, Roshan Sharma, Hira Dhamyal +3

Modern speech synthesis systems have improved significantly, with synthetic speech being indistinguishable from real speech. However, efficient and holistic evaluation of synthetic…

cs.CL2023

Joint Prediction and Denoising for Large-scale Multilingual Self-supervised Learning

William Chen, Jiatong Shi, Brian Yan +6

Multilingual self-supervised learning (SSL) has often lagged behind state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods due to the expenses and complexity required to handle many languages. This furth…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Exploring Speech Recognition, Translation, and Understanding with Discrete Speech Units: A Comparative Study

Xuankai Chang, Brian Yan, Kwanghee Choi +14

Speech signals, typically sampled at rates in the tens of thousands per second, contain redundancies, evoking inefficiencies in sequence modeling. High-dimensional speech features…

cs.CV2023

Towards Practical and Efficient Image-to-Speech Captioning with Vision-Language Pre-training and Multi-modal Tokens

Minsu Kim, Jeongsoo Choi, Soumi Maiti +3

In this paper, we propose methods to build a powerful and efficient Image-to-Speech captioning (Im2Sp) model. To this end, we start with importing the rich knowledge related to ima…

eess.AS2023

Voxtlm: unified decoder-only models for consolidating speech recognition/synthesis and speech/text continuation tasks

Soumi Maiti, Yifan Peng, Shukjae Choi +3

We propose a decoder-only language model, VoxtLM, that can perform four tasks: speech recognition, speech synthesis, text generation, and speech continuation. VoxtLM integrates tex…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Reducing Barriers to Self-Supervised Learning: HuBERT Pre-training with Academic Compute

William Chen, Xuankai Chang, Yifan Peng +3

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has led to great strides in speech processing. However, the resources needed to train these models has become prohibitively large as they continue to…

cs.SD2023

ESPnet-ST-v2: Multipurpose Spoken Language Translation Toolkit

Brian Yan, Jiatong Shi, Yun Tang +13

ESPnet-ST-v2 is a revamp of the open-source ESPnet-ST toolkit necessitated by the broadening interests of the spoken language translation community. ESPnet-ST-v2 supports 1) offlin…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Improving Massively Multilingual ASR With Auxiliary CTC Objectives

William Chen, Brian Yan, Jiatong Shi +3

Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models have extended the usability of speech technologies to a wide variety of languages. With how many languages these models have…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Unsupervised Data Selection for TTS: Using Arabic Broadcast News as a Case Study

Massa Baali, Tomoki Hayashi, Hamdy Mubarak +4

Several high-resource Text to Speech (TTS) systems currently produce natural, well-established human-like speech. In contrast, low-resource languages, including Arabic, have very l…

eess.AS2023

Learning to Speak from Text: Zero-Shot Multilingual Text-to-Speech with Unsupervised Text Pretraining

Takaaki Saeki, Soumi Maiti, Xinjian Li +3

While neural text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved human-like natural synthetic speech, multilingual TTS systems are limited to resource-rich languages due to the need for paired text…

eess.AS2022★ 1 cited

SpeechLMScore: Evaluating speech generation using speech language model

Soumi Maiti, Yifan Peng, Takaaki Saeki +1

While human evaluation is the most reliable metric for evaluating speech generation systems, it is generally costly and time-consuming. Previous studies on automatic speech quality…

eess.AS2022★ 2 cited

EEND-SS: Joint End-to-End Neural Speaker Diarization and Speech Separation for Flexible Number of Speakers

Soumi Maiti, Yushi Ueda, Shinji Watanabe +4

In this paper, we present a novel framework that jointly performs three tasks: speaker diarization, speech separation, and speaker counting. Our proposed framework integrates speak…

cs.SD2021

End-to-End Diarization for Variable Number of Speakers with Local-Global Networks and Discriminative Speaker Embeddings

Soumi Maiti, Hakan Erdogan, Kevin Wilson +3

We present an end-to-end deep network model that performs meeting diarization from single-channel audio recordings. End-to-end diarization models have the advantage of handling spe…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

Generating Multilingual Voices Using Speaker Space Translation Based on Bilingual Speaker Data

Soumi Maiti, Erik Marchi, Alistair Conkie

We present progress towards bilingual Text-to-Speech which is able to transform a monolingual voice to speak a second language while preserving speaker voice quality. We demonstrat…

cs.SD2019

Speaker independence of neural vocoders and their effect on parametric resynthesis speech enhancement

Soumi Maiti, Michael I Mandel

Traditional speech enhancement systems produce speech with compromised quality. Here we propose to use the high quality speech generation capability of neural vocoders for better q…