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HINTT Submission to the 2nd MLC-SLM Challenge: Comparing Cascaded and Unified Approaches to Diarization and ASR
Takanori Ashihara, Kohei Matsuura, Masato Mimura
This paper presents the HINTT system submitted to the 2nd Challenge and Workshop on Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Model (MLC-SLM). We address multilingual speaker-att…
Over-Tightening-Aware Pseudo-Labeling for Tight-Boundary Speaker Diarization
Shota Horiguchi, Takanori Ashihara, Marc Delcroix +2
Training speaker diarization models on loose labels, such as speech segments with padded boundaries or filled pauses, often results in similarly loose model outputs. To obtain tigh…
Tight Boundary Prediction in Speaker Diarization Using Causal-Anticausal Consistency
Shota Horiguchi, Marc Delcroix, Naohiro Tawara +2
Multi-talker conversational automatic speech recognition data are often used to train speaker diarization models. Because such data prioritize semantic continuity, pauses and bound…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Boosting Hybrid Autoregressive Transducer-based ASR with Internal Acoustic Model Training and Dual Blank Thresholding
Takafumi Moriya, Takanori Ashihara, Masato Mimura +4
A hybrid autoregressive transducer (HAT) is a variant of neural transducer that models blank and non-blank posterior distributions separately. In this paper, we propose a novel int…
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…
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…
SpeakerBeam-SS: Real-time Target Speaker Extraction with Lightweight Conv-TasNet and State Space Modeling
Hiroshi Sato, Takafumi Moriya, Masato Mimura +6
Real-time target speaker extraction (TSE) is intended to extract the desired speaker's voice from the observed mixture of multiple speakers in a streaming manner. Implementing real…
Applying LLMs for Rescoring N-best ASR Hypotheses of Casual Conversations: Effects of Domain Adaptation and Context Carry-over
Atsunori Ogawa, Naoyuki Kamo, Kohei Matsuura +5
Large language models (LLMs) have been successfully applied for rescoring automatic speech recognition (ASR) hypotheses. However, their ability to rescore ASR hypotheses of casual…
Probing Self-supervised Learning Models with Target Speech Extraction
Junyi Peng, Marc Delcroix, Tsubasa Ochiai +4
Large-scale pre-trained self-supervised learning (SSL) models have shown remarkable advancements in speech-related tasks. However, the utilization of these models in complex multi-…
Knowledge Distillation for Neural Transducer-based Target-Speaker ASR: Exploiting Parallel Mixture/Single-Talker Speech Data
Takafumi Moriya, Hiroshi Sato, Tsubasa Ochiai +7
Neural transducer (RNNT)-based target-speaker speech recognition (TS-RNNT) directly transcribes a target speaker's voice from a multi-talker mixture. It is a promising approach for…
Improving Scheduled Sampling for Neural Transducer-based ASR
Takafumi Moriya, Takanori Ashihara, Hiroshi Sato +3
The recurrent neural network-transducer (RNNT) is a promising approach for automatic speech recognition (ASR) with the introduction of a prediction network that autoregressively co…
Downstream Task Agnostic Speech Enhancement with Self-Supervised Representation Loss
Hiroshi Sato, Ryo Masumura, Tsubasa Ochiai +8
Self-supervised learning (SSL) is the latest breakthrough in speech processing, especially for label-scarce downstream tasks by leveraging massive unlabeled audio data. The noise r…