7 papers
The CMU-AIST submission for the ICME 2025 Audio Encoder Challenge
Shikhar Bharadwaj, Samuele Cornell, Kwanghee Choi +4
This technical report describes our submission to the ICME 2025 audio encoder challenge. Our submitted system is built on BEATs, a masked speech token prediction based audio encode…
Geolocation-Aware Robust Spoken Language Identification
Qingzheng Wang, Hye-jin Shim, Jiancheng Sun +1
While Self-supervised Learning (SSL) has significantly improved Spoken Language Identification (LID), existing models often struggle to consistently classify dialects and accents o…
Benchmarking Training Paradigms, Dataset Composition, and Model Scaling for Child ASR in ESPnet
Anyu Ying, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Chyi-Jiunn Lin +7
Despite advancements in ASR, child speech recognition remains challenging due to acoustic variability and limited annotated data. While fine-tuning adult ASR models on child speech…
Uni-VERSA: Versatile Speech Assessment with a Unified Network
Jiatong Shi, Hye-Jin Shim, Shinji Watanabe
Subjective listening tests remain the golden standard for speech quality assessment, but are costly, variable, and difficult to scale. In contrast, existing objective metrics, such…
ARECHO: Autoregressive Evaluation via Chain-Based Hypothesis Optimization for Speech Multi-Metric Estimation
Jiatong Shi, Yifan Cheng, Bo-Hao Su +6
Speech signal analysis poses significant challenges, particularly in tasks such as speech quality evaluation and profiling, where the goal is to predict multiple perceptual and obj…
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…