4 papers
BEST-STD: Bidirectional Mamba-Enhanced Speech Tokenization for Spoken Term Detection
Anup Singh, Kris Demuynck, Vipul Arora
Spoken term detection (STD) is often hindered by reliance on frame-level features and the computationally intensive DTW-based template matching, limiting its practicality. To addre…
ECAPA2: A Hybrid Neural Network Architecture and Training Strategy for Robust Speaker Embeddings
Jenthe Thienpondt, Kris Demuynck
In this paper, we present ECAPA2, a novel hybrid neural network architecture and training strategy to produce robust speaker embeddings. Most speaker verification models are based…
Tik-to-Tok: Translating Language Models One Token at a Time: An Embedding Initialization Strategy for Efficient Language Adaptation
François Remy, Pieter Delobelle, Bettina Berendt +2
Training monolingual language models for low and mid-resource languages is made challenging by limited and often inadequate pretraining data. In this study, we propose a novel mode…
Margin-Mixup: A Method for Robust Speaker Verification in Multi-Speaker Audio
Jenthe Thienpondt, Nilesh Madhu, Kris Demuynck
This paper is concerned with the task of speaker verification on audio with multiple overlapping speakers. Most speaker verification systems are designed with the assumption of a s…