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20192025
most citedSpeechBrain: A General-Purpose Speech Toolkit

514 citations · 636 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.SD2025

LibriVAD: A Scalable Open Dataset with Deep Learning Benchmarks for Robust Voice Activity Detection

Ioannis Stylianou, Achintya kr. Sarkar, Nauman Dawalatabad +2

Robust Voice Activity Detection (VAD) remains a challenging task, especially under noisy, diverse, and unseen acoustic conditions. Beyond algorithmic development, a key limitation…

cs.SD2024

Automatic Prediction of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Progression using Longitudinal Speech Transformer

Liming Wang, Yuan Gong, Nauman Dawalatabad +7

Automatic prediction of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disease progression provides a more efficient and objective alternative than manual approaches. We propose ALS longitudi…

cs.CL2023

Improved Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning For Automatic Speech Translation

Sameer Khurana, Nauman Dawalatabad, Antoine Laurent +4

Research in multilingual speech-to-text translation is topical. Having a single model that supports multiple translation tasks is desirable. The goal of this work it to improve cro…

eess.AS2022

On Unsupervised Uncertainty-Driven Speech Pseudo-Label Filtering and Model Calibration

Nauman Dawalatabad, Sameer Khurana, Antoine Laurent +1

Pseudo-label (PL) filtering forms a crucial part of Self-Training (ST) methods for unsupervised domain adaptation. Dropout-based Uncertainty-driven Self-Training (DUST) proceeds by…

cs.SD2022★ 5 cited

Multi-stage Progressive Compression of Conformer Transducer for On-device Speech Recognition

Jash Rathod, Nauman Dawalatabad, Shatrughan Singh +1

The smaller memory bandwidth in smart devices prompts development of smaller Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models. To obtain a smaller model, one can employ the model compress…

eess.AS2022

Two-Pass End-to-End ASR Model Compression

Nauman Dawalatabad, Tushar Vatsal, Ashutosh Gupta +4

Speech recognition on smart devices is challenging owing to the small memory footprint. Hence small size ASR models are desirable. With the use of popular transducer-based models,…

eess.AS2021★ 514 cited

SpeechBrain: A General-Purpose Speech Toolkit

Mirco Ravanelli, Titouan Parcollet, Peter Plantinga +18

SpeechBrain is an open-source and all-in-one speech toolkit. It is designed to facilitate the research and development of neural speech processing technologies by being simple, fle…

eess.AS2021★ 97 cited

ECAPA-TDNN Embeddings for Speaker Diarization

Nauman Dawalatabad, Mirco Ravanelli, François Grondin +3

Learning robust speaker embeddings is a crucial step in speaker diarization. Deep neural networks can accurately capture speaker discriminative characteristics and popular deep emb…

eess.AS2021

Front-end Diarization for Percussion Separation in Taniavartanam of Carnatic Music Concerts

Nauman Dawalatabad, Jilt Sebastian, Jom Kuriakose +3

Instrument separation in an ensemble is a challenging task. In this work, we address the problem of separating the percussive voices in the taniavartanam segments of Carnatic music…

eess.AS2020★ 12 cited

Novel Architectures for Unsupervised Information Bottleneck based Speaker Diarization of Meetings

Nauman Dawalatabad, Srikanth Madikeri, C. Chandra Sekhar +1

Speaker diarization is an important problem that is topical, and is especially useful as a preprocessor for conversational speech related applications. The objective of this paper…

eess.AS2019★ 8 cited

Incremental Transfer Learning in Two-pass Information Bottleneck based Speaker Diarization System for Meetings

Nauman Dawalatabad, Srikanth Madikeri, C Chandra Sekhar +1

The two-pass information bottleneck (TPIB) based speaker diarization system operates independently on different conversational recordings. TPIB system does not consider previously…