Personal VAD detects target speaker voice activity efficiently.
problem Efficiently detect target speaker voice activity for reduced computational cost and battery usage.
method Trains a neural network conditioned on speaker embedding or verification score, outputs probabilities for three speech classes.
result Trained model with 130K parameters outperforms combined standard VAD and speaker recognition networks.
Paper proposes a new method for robust speaker verification.
problem Improving robustness in speaker verification systems.
method Combines soft VAD and self-adaptive VAD with DNN-based VAD.
result Significant improvement in verification performance in real-world environments.
A new VAD method uses respiration patterns from video to detect speech.
problem Improving VAD performance in noisy audio recordings.
method Extract respiration patterns from video, use neural models to detect speech.
result Efficacy demonstrated through experiments on real acoustic environments.
Paper proposes an ensemble SVM method for efficient VAD.
problem Efficient and accurate VAD for speech processing.
method Supervised learning with ensemble SVM on large datasets.
result Ensemble SVM outperforms stand-alone SVM in VAD accuracy.
DKULENOVO team improves speech diarization by 27.5% and 31.7% in DIHARD II.
problem Challenges in speech diarization, especially in distinguishing overlapping speakers.
method Used a combination of VAD, speaker embedding extraction, similarity scoring, clustering, and resegmentation techniques.
result Achieved 18.84% DER in Track1 and 27.90% DER in Track2, reducing baseline DERs by 27.5% and 31.7% respectively.
Recently, the deep-belief-networks (DBN) based voice activity detection (VAD) has been proposed. It is powerful in fusing the advantages of multiple features, and achieves the state-of-the-art performance. However, the deep layers of the DBN-based VAD do not show an apparent superiority to the shallower layers. In this…
Automated detection of voice disorders with computational methods is a recent research area in the medical domain since it requires a rigorous endoscopy for the accurate diagnosis. Efficient screening methods are required for the diagnosis of voice disorders so as to provide timely medical facilities in minimal resourc…
Many people are suffering from voice disorders, which can adversely affect the quality of their lives. In response, some researchers have proposed algorithms for automatic assessment of these disorders, based on voice signals. However, these signals can be sensitive to the recording devices. Indeed, the channel effect …
Improved speech recognition for voice assistants by analyzing speech data.
problem Reducing false triggers in speech-enabled assistants.
method Post-processing LVCSR hypothesis lattice with a Bidirectional Lattice Recurrent Neural Network (LatticeRNN).
result LatticeRNN significantly improves detection accuracy over traditional methods.
Inspired by brain's modality fusion, this paper detects active speakers from audio and video.
problem Detecting active speakers in noisy environments.
method Inspired by brain's superior colliculus, combines audio and visual data through specialized neural networks and a novel fusion layer.
result Achieved results greatly surpassing initial expectations, confirming the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Study combines speaker verification and voice trigger detection in a single network.
problem Separate training for speaker verification and voice trigger detection.
method Multi-task learning with a single network trained on both tasks.
result Single network achieves comparable accuracy to independent models for each task.
This paper detects anomalies in cellular network traffic using hybrid methods.
problem Detecting anomalies in network traffic for security and analysis.
method Hybrid method combining GARCH, K-means, and Neural Network.
result Anomaly detection in cellular network traffic successfully achieved.
Improved voice trigger detection in noisy environments.
problem Complex acoustic environments and lack of trigger phrase training data.
method Two-stage cascaded architecture with multi-task learning.
result Model reduces errors by half compared to baseline in challenging conditions.
Transformer models show distinct spectral fingerprints under voice changes.
problem Detecting architectural biases in transformer models.
method Spectral analysis of attention-induced token graphs.
result Clear architectural signatures in model fingerprints correlate with language-specific behavior.
Study develops sign recognition system for DHH users.
problem Accessibility of voice-controlled devices for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing users.
method Multimodal data (RGB video and skeletal data) for sign language recognition using deep learning.
result Validation on GMUASL51 dataset of 12 users and 13107 samples across 51 signs.
Paper improves voice trigger detection for privacy-centric smart assistants.
problem Mitigating false triggers in voice-activated smart assistants.
method Analyzing ASR lattices using graph neural networks (GNN).
result GNNs effectively reduce false triggers by ~87% at 99% true positive rate.
Inspired by recent work on neural network image generation which rely on backpropagation towards the network inputs, we present a proof-of-concept system for speech texture synthesis and voice conversion based on two mechanisms: approximate inversion of the representation learned by a speech recognition neural network,…
Thanks to the growing availability of spoofing databases and rapid advances in using them, systems for detecting voice spoofing attacks are becoming more and more capable, and error rates close to zero are being reached for the ASVspoof2015 database. However, speech synthesis and voice conversion paradigms that are not…
AI monitors social distancing and masks at manufacturing plants.
problem Ensuring safety of workers during post-COVID production.
method Computer vision and AI techniques for social distancing and mask detection.
result Real-time alerts prevent violations of social distancing and mask-wearing.
Self-supervised method detects replay spoofing using acoustic configurations.
problem Challenges in collecting large-scale datasets for replay spoofing detection.
method Self-supervised pretraining of acoustic configurations using existing datasets.
result The method outperforms baseline by 30% on ASVspoof 2019 physical access dataset.
STC systems improved deep learning for ASVspoof2019 challenge.
problem Detecting spoofing attacks in speech recognition.
method Deep learning, Light CNN architecture, angular margin based softmax activation.
result Achieved EER of 1.86% in logical access and 0.54% in physical access scenarios.
Paper proposes singing voice conversion without parallel data.
problem Convert singing voices without parallel data.
method Phonetic posterior feature, DBLSTM, vocoder.
result Successfully converts singing voices without parallel data.
Hybrid f0 extraction method for various speech modes with high accuracy.
problem Reliable f0 extraction across different speech modes.
method Ordinal regression CNN and filtering/autocorrelation for pitch estimation.
result Significantly reduces pitch detection error and generalizes to unseen modes.
This paper converts speech to match a face image and vice versa.
problem Matching speech to a face image and vice versa.
method Proposes a model with speech converter, face encoder/decoder, and voice encoder.
result Trained model converts speech to match a face image and generates a face image that matches the voice of input speech.
Solution for voice conversion with limited data using hierarchical seq2seq and attention models.
problem Voice conversion between speakers with limited parallel audio pairs.
method Hierarchical sequence to sequence model with attention-based decoder, trained on single speaker dataset.
result Improved voice conversion quality using mel spectrograms and wavenet vocoder.
Convolutional network converts speaker voices without text.
problem Speaker conversion without text-based methods.
method Fully convolutional wav-to-wav network with ASR pre-training.
result Successfully converts TTS robot's voice to narrated audiobook voices.
Deep learning converts one singer's voice to another without supervision.
problem Unsupervised singing voice conversion.
method Deep learning network with a single CNN encoder, WaveNet decoder, and classifier.
result Natural, recognizable singing voices converted without supervision.
As the technology is advancing, audio recognition in machine learning is improved as well. Research in audio recognition has traditionally focused on speech. Living creatures (especially the small ones) are part of the whole ecosystem, monitoring as well as maintaining them are important tasks. Species such as animals …
A fast voice conversion method using diffusion models.
problem One-shot many-to-many voice conversion.
method Diffusion probabilistic modeling with Fast Maximum Likelihood Sampling Scheme.
result Superior quality compared to state-of-the-art approaches.
End-to-end voice conversion without vocoder.
problem Speech conversion without vocoder.
method Transformer network for raw spectrum conversion.
result Transformer model converts real voices efficiently.
Improved voice conversion with semi-supervised learning.
problem Voice conversion with limited parallel data.
method Amortized variational inference with parallel and non-parallel utterances.
result Semi-supervised training improves voice conversion performance.
One-shot VC model converts voices without parallel data.
problem Limited VC applicability due to training data restriction.
method Disentangles speaker and content representations with instance normalization.
result Model converts voices from unseen speakers with high similarity.
AUTOVC converts voices without parallel data, achieving state-of-the-art results.
problem Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion and zero-shot voice conversion.
method Only an autoencoder with a carefully designed bottleneck is used, training on a self-reconstruction loss.
result AUTOVC achieves state-of-the-art results in many-to-many voice conversion with non-parallel data and performs zero-shot voice conversion.
New method separates multiple voices in mixed audio.
problem Separating multiple simultaneous speakers in audio.
method Gated neural networks trained at multiple steps, selecting actual number of speakers.
result Outperforms current state of the art for more than two speakers.
A new neural network separates singing voices more effectively.
problem Separating singing voices from mixed signals with high accuracy.
method MBR-FCN that processes different frequency bands with varying resolutions and filters.
result The MBR-FCN achieves better performance with fewer parameters.
Improved U-Nets with various intermediate blocks enhance singing voice separation.
problem Improving singing voice separation accuracy using U-Net architectures.
method Implemented and compared U-Nets with different intermediate spectrogram transformation blocks.
result A specific block type achieves state-of-the-art SDR by 0.9 dB.
Privacy-preserving method protects user speech data from cloud services.
problem Privacy compromise in cloud-based speech analysis.
method Collects and sanitizes speech data before sharing, using transformation functions and voice conversion.
result Identification of sensitive emotional state reduced by ~96%.
Hidden Markov Models detect hand gestures from wearable sEMG signals.
problem Detecting activity regions in continuous sEMG signals.
method Hidden Markov Models applied to sEMG signals for gesture recognition.
result Average accuracy of 96.25% for activity onsets and 87.5% for activity terminations.
Wave-U-Net with MHE regularization improves singing voice separation.
problem Singing voice separation from mixed music recordings.
method Wave-U-Net architecture with MHE regularization applied to 1D filters.
result Adding MHE regularization to the loss function consistently improves singing voice separation.
Automatic voice-controlled systems have changed the way humans interact with a computer. Voice or speech recognition systems allow a user to make a hands-free request to the computer, which in turn processes the request and serves the user with appropriate responses. After years of research and developments in machine …
Continuous speech recognition from brain activity without vocalization.
problem Recognizing silent speech from EEG signals.
method Implemented a CTC ASR model using EEG signals.
result Demonstrated feasibility of EEG for continuous silent speech recognition.
Efficiently generates and selects explanations for neural networks using GANs and FID.
problem Manual selection of hyper-parameters for generating interpretable neural network explanations is slow and requires qualitative evaluation.
method Proposes a novel metric using Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) and a GAN-based method for efficient search and realistic output generation.
result Successfully selects hyper-parameters leading to interpretable examples, avoiding manual evaluation.
Voice conversion (VC) aims at conversion of speaker characteristic without altering content. Due to training data limitations and modeling imperfections, it is difficult to achieve believable speaker mimicry without introducing processing artifacts; performance assessment of VC, therefore, usually involves both speaker…
Improved autoencoder for F0-consistent voice conversion.
problem Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion with prosodic information leakage.
method Conditional autoencoder with information-constraining bottlenecks.
result Controlled F0 contour and improved speech quality.
Automatically assessing emotional valence in human speech has historically been a difficult task for machine learning algorithms. The subtle changes in the voice of the speaker that are indicative of positive or negative emotional states are often "overshadowed" by voice characteristics relating to emotional intensity …
Proposes a new voice conversion model that preserves pitch patterns.
problem Preserving pitch patterns while changing speaker identity.
method Variational-autoencoder-based model with an auxiliary network.
result Ensures the conversion result correctly reflects specified F0/timbre information.
Blow converts non-parallel raw audio voices efficiently.
problem Voice conversion with non-parallel data.
method Single-scale normalizing flow with hypernetwork conditioning.
result Blow outperforms existing flow-based architectures in voice conversion.
We study the problem of semi-supervised singing voice separation, in which the training data contains a set of samples of mixed music (singing and instrumental) and an unmatched set of instrumental music. Our solution employs a single mapping function g, which, applied to a mixed sample, recovers the underlying instrum…