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20202025
most citedData Augmentation For Children's Speech Recognition -- The "Ethiopian" System For The SLT 2021 Children Speech Recognition Challenge

11 citations · 12 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

The ICME 2025 Audio Encoder Capability Challenge

Junbo Zhang, Heinrich Dinkel, Qiong Song +8

This challenge aims to evaluate the capabilities of audio encoders, especially in the context of multi-task learning and real-world applications. Participants are invited to submit…

cs.SD2024

Enhancing Automated Audio Captioning via Large Language Models with Optimized Audio Encoding

Jizhong Liu, Gang Li, Junbo Zhang +5

Automated audio captioning (AAC) is an audio-to-text task to describe audio contents in natural language. Recently, the advancements in large language models (LLMs), with improveme…

cs.SD2024

Bridging Language Gaps in Audio-Text Retrieval

Zhiyong Yan, Heinrich Dinkel, Yongqing Wang +4

Audio-text retrieval is a challenging task, requiring the search for an audio clip or a text caption within a database. The predominant focus of existing research on English descri…

cs.SD2024

Scaling up masked audio encoder learning for general audio classification

Heinrich Dinkel, Zhiyong Yan, Yongqing Wang +3

Despite progress in audio classification, a generalization gap remains between speech and other sound domains, such as environmental sounds and music. Models trained for speech tas…

cs.SD2023

CED: Consistent ensemble distillation for audio tagging

Heinrich Dinkel, Yongqing Wang, Zhiyong Yan +2

Augmentation and knowledge distillation (KD) are well-established techniques employed in audio classification tasks, aimed at enhancing performance and reducing model sizes on the…

cs.SD2023

Understanding temporally weakly supervised training: A case study for keyword spotting

Heinrich Dinkel, Weiji Zhuang, Zhiyong Yan +3

The currently most prominent algorithm to train keyword spotting (KWS) models with deep neural networks (DNNs) requires strong supervision i.e., precise knowledge of the spoken key…

cs.SD2023

Streaming Audio Transformers for Online Audio Tagging

Heinrich Dinkel, Zhiyong Yan, Yongqing Wang +3

Transformers have emerged as a prominent model framework for audio tagging (AT), boasting state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on the widely-used Audioset dataset. However, their im…

cs.SD2023

Unified Keyword Spotting and Audio Tagging on Mobile Devices with Transformers

Heinrich Dinkel, Yongqing Wang, Zhiyong Yan +2

Keyword spotting (KWS) is a core human-machine-interaction front-end task for most modern intelligent assistants. Recently, a unified (UniKW-AT) framework has been proposed that ad…

cs.SD2020★ 11 cited

Data Augmentation For Children's Speech Recognition -- The "Ethiopian" System For The SLT 2021 Children Speech Recognition Challenge

Guoguo Chen, Xingyu Na, Yongqing Wang +4

This paper presents the "Ethiopian" system for the SLT 2021 Children Speech Recognition Challenge. Various data processing and augmentation techniques are proposed to tackle childr…