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20202026
most citedUR Channel-Robust Synthetic Speech Detection System for ASVspoof 2021

59 citations · 112 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.SD2026

A Generative-First Neural Audio Autoencoder

Jonah Casebeer, Ge Zhu, Zhepei Wang +1

Neural autoencoders underpin generative models. Practical, large-scale use of neural autoencoders for generative modeling necessitates fast encoding, low latent rates, and a single…

cs.SD2025

Audio Generation Through Score-Based Generative Modeling: Design Principles and Implementation

Ge Zhu, Yutong Wen, Zhiyao Duan

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful deep generative techniques, producing high-quality and diverse samples in applications in various domains including audio. While existing…

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.CL2024★ 1 cited

Style-Talker: Finetuning Audio Language Model and Style-Based Text-to-Speech Model for Fast Spoken Dialogue Generation

Yinghao Aaron Li, Xilin Jiang, Jordan Darefsky +2

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly propelled the development of text-based chatbots, demonstrating their capability to engage in coherent and c…

cs.SD2024

MusicHiFi: Fast High-Fidelity Stereo Vocoding

Ge Zhu, Juan-Pablo Caceres, Zhiyao Duan +1

Diffusion-based audio and music generation models commonly perform generation by constructing an image representation of audio (e.g., a mel-spectrogram) and then convert it to audi…

cs.SD2024

Cacophony: An Improved Contrastive Audio-Text Model

Ge Zhu, Jordan Darefsky, Zhiyao Duan

Despite recent advancements, audio-text models still lag behind their image-text counterparts in scale and performance. In this paper, we propose to improve both the data scale and…

cs.SD2023

EDMSound: Spectrogram Based Diffusion Models for Efficient and High-Quality Audio Synthesis

Ge Zhu, Yutong Wen, Marc-André Carbonneau +1

Audio diffusion models can synthesize a wide variety of sounds. Existing models often operate on the latent domain with cascaded phase recovery modules to reconstruct waveform. Thi…

eess.AS2023

Transcription free filler word detection with Neural semi-CRFs

Ge Zhu, Yujia Yan, Juan-Pablo Caceres +1

Non-linguistic filler words, such as "uh" or "um", are prevalent in spontaneous speech and serve as indicators for expressing hesitation or uncertainty. Previous works for detectin…

eess.AS2022★ 8 cited

Music Source Separation with Generative Flow

Ge Zhu, Jordan Darefsky, Fei Jiang +2

Fully-supervised models for source separation are trained on parallel mixture-source data and are currently state-of-the-art. However, such parallel data is often difficult to obta…

cs.CL2022

Filler Word Detection and Classification: A Dataset and Benchmark

Ge Zhu, Juan-Pablo Caceres, Justin Salamon

Filler words such as `uh' or `um' are sounds or words people use to signal they are pausing to think. Finding and removing filler words from recordings is a common and tedious task…

eess.AS2022★ 16 cited

A Probabilistic Fusion Framework for Spoofing Aware Speaker Verification

You Zhang, Ge Zhu, Zhiyao Duan

The performance of automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems could be degraded by voice spoofing attacks. Most existing works aimed to develop standalone spoofing countermeasure…

eess.AS2021

A study of the robustness of raw waveform based speaker embeddings under mismatched conditions

Ge Zhu, Frank Cwitkowitz, Zhiyao Duan

In this paper, we conduct a cross-dataset study on parametric and non-parametric raw-waveform based speaker embeddings through speaker verification experiments. In general, we obse…

eess.AS2021★ 59 cited

UR Channel-Robust Synthetic Speech Detection System for ASVspoof 2021

Xinhui Chen, You Zhang, Ge Zhu +1

In this paper, we present UR-AIR system submission to the logical access (LA) and the speech deepfake (DF) tracks of the ASVspoof 2021 Challenge. The LA and DF tasks focus on synth…

eess.AS2021★ 27 cited

An Empirical Study on Channel Effects for Synthetic Voice Spoofing Countermeasure Systems

You Zhang, Ge Zhu, Fei Jiang +1

Spoofing countermeasure (CM) systems are critical in speaker verification; they aim to discern spoofing attacks from bona fide speech trials. In practice, however, acoustic conditi…

eess.AS2020★ 1 cited

Y-Vector: Multiscale Waveform Encoder for Speaker Embedding

Ge Zhu, Fei Jiang, Zhiyao Duan

State-of-the-art text-independent speaker verification systems typically use cepstral features or filter bank energies as speech features. Recent studies attempted to extract speak…