16 papers
Recent Trends in Distant Conversational Speech Recognition: A Review of CHiME-7 and 8 DASR Challenges
Samuele Cornell, Christoph Boeddeker, Taejin Park +9
The CHiME-7 and 8 distant speech recognition (DASR) challenges focus on multi-channel, generalizable, joint automatic speech recognition (ASR) and diarization of conversational spe…
Data-Centric Lessons To Improve Speech-Language Pretraining
Vishaal Udandarao, Zhiyun Lu, Xuankai Chang +6
Spoken Question-Answering (SQA) is a core capability for useful and interactive artificial intelligence systems. Recently, several speech-language models (SpeechLMs) have been rele…
TMT: Tri-Modal Translation between Speech, Image, and Text by Processing Different Modalities as Different Languages
Minsu Kim, Jee-weon Jung, Hyeongseop Rha +5
The capability to jointly process multi-modal information is becoming an essential task. However, the limited number of paired multi-modal data and the large computational requirem…
Findings of the 2023 ML-SUPERB Challenge: Pre-Training and Evaluation over More Languages and Beyond
Jiatong Shi, William Chen, Dan Berrebbi +10
The 2023 Multilingual Speech Universal Performance Benchmark (ML-SUPERB) Challenge expands upon the acclaimed SUPERB framework, emphasizing self-supervised models in multilingual s…
ML-SUPERB: Multilingual Speech Universal PERformance Benchmark
Jiatong Shi, Dan Berrebbi, William Chen +8
Speech processing Universal PERformance Benchmark (SUPERB) is a leaderboard to benchmark the performance of Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) models on various speech processing tasks…
UniAudio: An Audio Foundation Model Toward Universal Audio Generation
Dongchao Yang, Jinchuan Tian, Xu Tan +9
Large Language models (LLM) have demonstrated the capability to handle a variety of generative tasks. This paper presents the UniAudio system, which, unlike prior task-specific app…