16 papers
Tight Boundary Prediction in Speaker Diarization Using Causal-Anticausal Consistency
Shota Horiguchi, Marc Delcroix, Naohiro Tawara +2
Multi-talker conversational automatic speech recognition data are often used to train speaker diarization models. Because such data prioritize semantic continuity, pauses and bound…
Voice Impression Control in Zero-Shot TTS
Kenichi Fujita, Shota Horiguchi, Yusuke Ijima
Para-/non-linguistic information in speech is pivotal in shaping the listeners' impression. Although zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) has achieved high speaker fidelity, modulating s…
Frontend Token Enhancement for Token-Based Speech Recognition
Takanori Ashihara, Shota Horiguchi, Kohei Matsuura +2
Discretized representations of speech signals are efficient alternatives to continuous features for various speech applications, including automatic speech recognition (ASR) and sp…
Can We Really Repurpose Multi-Speaker ASR Corpus for Speaker Diarization?
Shota Horiguchi, Naohiro Tawara, Takanori Ashihara +2
Neural speaker diarization is widely used for overlap-aware speaker diarization, but it requires large multi-speaker datasets for training. To meet this data requirement, large dat…
Microphone Array Geometry Independent Multi-Talker Distant ASR: NTT System for the DASR Task of the CHiME-8 Challenge
Naoyuki Kamo, Naohiro Tawara, Atsushi Ando +15
In this paper, we introduce a multi-talker distant automatic speech recognition (DASR) system we designed for the DASR task 1 of the CHiME-8 challenge. Our system performs speaker…
Mitigating Non-Target Speaker Bias in Guided Speaker Embedding
Shota Horiguchi, Takanori Ashihara, Marc Delcroix +2
Obtaining high-quality speaker embeddings in multi-speaker conditions is crucial for many applications. A recently proposed guided speaker embedding framework, which utilizes speec…