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Explainable and Trustworthy Speech Emotion Recognition Using Confidence Score and Reinforcement Learning Rectified Speech Emotion Descriptors
Youjun Chen, Xurong Xie, Mengzhe Geng +9
Explainable and trustworthy speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a challenging task to date, largely due to the scarcity of SER data with reliable speech emotion descriptor (SE…
Towards Personalized Federated Learning for Dysarthric Speech Recognition
Tao Zhong, Mengzhe Geng, Jiajun Deng +2
Speech recognition is challenging for dysarthric speakers. While federated learning (FL)-based ASR can be an effective tool for protecting privacy, it suffers from heterogeneity is…
Towards Data-free and Training-free Compression for Speech Foundation Models Using Parameter Clustering
Haoning Xu, Zhaoqing Li, Huimeng Wang +4
This paper presents a novel data-free and training-free compression approach for speech foundation models using channelwise clustering via k-means. More fine-grained, mixed sparsit…
IRAF: Interference-Resilient Adaptive Fusion for Noise-Robust End-to-End Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Systems
Tao Zhong, Jiajun Deng, Nikita Kuzmin +6
Full-duplex spoken dialogue models allow voice agents to listen and speak concurrently, enabling natural interaction with real-time overlap. However, end-to-end dual-channel models…
Multi-Channel Speech Enhancement for Cocktail Party Speech Emotion Recognition
Youjun Chen, Guinan Li, Mengzhe Geng +9
This paper highlights the critical importance of multi-channel speech enhancement (MCSE) for speech emotion recognition (ER) in cocktail party scenarios. A multi-channel speech der…
Towards LLM-Empowered Fine-Grained Speech Descriptors for Explainable Emotion Recognition
Youjun Chen, Xurong Xie, Haoning Xu +6
This paper presents a novel end-to-end LLM-empowered explainable speech emotion recognition (SER) approach. Fine-grained speech emotion descriptor (SED) features, e.g., pitch, tone…
Effective and Efficient One-pass Compression of Speech Foundation Models Using Sparsity-aware Self-pinching Gates
Haoning Xu, Zhaoqing Li, Youjun Chen +5
This paper presents a novel approach for speech foundation models compression that tightly integrates model pruning and parameter update into a single stage. Highly compact layer-l…
On-the-fly Routing for Zero-shot MoE Speaker Adaptation of Speech Foundation Models for Dysarthric Speech Recognition
Shujie HU, Xurong Xie, Mengzhe Geng +8
This paper proposes a novel MoE-based speaker adaptation framework for foundation models based dysarthric speech recognition. This approach enables zero-shot adaptation and real-ti…
Towards One-bit ASR: Extremely Low-bit Conformer Quantization Using Co-training and Stochastic Precision
Zhaoqing Li, Haoning Xu, Zengrui Jin +7
Model compression has become an emerging need as the sizes of modern speech systems rapidly increase. In this paper, we study model weight quantization, which directly reduces the…
Unfolding A Few Structures for The Many: Memory-Efficient Compression of Conformer and Speech Foundation Models
Zhaoqing Li, Haoning Xu, Xurong Xie +3
This paper presents a novel memory-efficient model compression approach for Conformer ASR and speech foundation systems. Our approach features a unique "small-to-large" design. A c…
Efficient Adapter Tuning for Joint Singing Voice Beat and Downbeat Tracking with Self-supervised Learning Features
Jiajun Deng, Yaolong Ju, Jing Yang +2
Singing voice beat tracking is a challenging task, due to the lack of musical accompaniment that often contains robust rhythmic and harmonic patterns, something most existing beat…
Effective and Efficient Mixed Precision Quantization of Speech Foundation Models
Haoning Xu, Zhaoqing Li, Zengrui Jin +7
This paper presents a novel mixed-precision quantization approach for speech foundation models that tightly integrates mixed-precision learning and quantized model parameter estima…
Phone-purity Guided Discrete Tokens for Dysarthric Speech Recognition
Huimeng Wang, Xurong Xie, Mengzhe Geng +6
Discrete tokens extracted provide efficient and domain adaptable speech features. Their application to disordered speech that exhibits articulation imprecision and large mismatch a…
Empowering Whisper as a Joint Multi-Talker and Target-Talker Speech Recognition System
Lingwei Meng, Jiawen Kang, Yuejiao Wang +4
Multi-talker speech recognition and target-talker speech recognition, both involve transcription in multi-talker contexts, remain significant challenges. However, existing methods…
Homogeneous Speaker Features for On-the-Fly Dysarthric and Elderly Speaker Adaptation
Mengzhe Geng, Xurong Xie, Jiajun Deng +7
The application of data-intensive automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies to dysarthric and elderly adult speech is confronted by their mismatch against healthy and nonaged…
One-pass Multiple Conformer and Foundation Speech Systems Compression and Quantization Using An All-in-one Neural Model
Zhaoqing Li, Haoning Xu, Tianzi Wang +7
We propose a novel one-pass multiple ASR systems joint compression and quantization approach using an all-in-one neural model. A single compression cycle allows multiple nested sys…
Joint Speaker Features Learning for Audio-visual Multichannel Speech Separation and Recognition
Guinan Li, Jiajun Deng, Youjun Chen +8
This paper proposes joint speaker feature learning methods for zero-shot adaptation of audio-visual multichannel speech separation and recognition systems. xVector and ECAPA-TDNN s…
Towards Effective and Efficient Non-autoregressive Decoding Using Block-based Attention Mask
Tianzi Wang, Xurong Xie, Zhaoqing Li +9
This paper proposes a novel non-autoregressive (NAR) block-based Attention Mask Decoder (AMD) that flexibly balances performance-efficiency trade-offs for Conformer ASR systems. AM…
Enhancing Pre-trained ASR System Fine-tuning for Dysarthric Speech Recognition using Adversarial Data Augmentation
Huimeng Wang, Zengrui Jin, Mengzhe Geng +5
Automatic recognition of dysarthric speech remains a highly challenging task to date. Neuro-motor conditions and co-occurring physical disabilities create difficulty in large-scale…