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48 results for soft voice activity detection

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.

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.

In this paper, we propose "personal VAD", a system to detect the voice activity of a target speaker at the frame level. This system is useful for gating the inputs to a streaming on-device speech recognition system, such that it only triggers for the target user, which helps reduce the computational cost and battery co…

2019-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2013-03-04abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2018-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Voice activity detection (VAD), used as the front end of speech enhancement, speech and speaker recognition algorithms, determines the overall accuracy and efficiency of the algorithms. Therefore, a VAD with low complexity and high accuracy is highly desirable for speech processing applications. In this paper, we propo…

2019-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

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 …

2018-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Employers actively look for talents having not only specific hard skills but also various soft skills. To analyze the soft skill demands on the job market, it is important to be able to detect soft skill phrases from job advertisements automatically. However, a naive matching of soft skill phrases can lead to false pos…

2018-07-20abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Active learning improves soft sensor development by suggesting informative labels.

problem Expensive labeling of process variables in industrial settings.
method Adapted active learning strategies for online data streams and used semi-supervised autoencoders.
result Improved predictive performance of soft sensors using active learning and autoencoders.

A challenging problem in the study of complex systems is that of resolving, without prior information, the emergent, mesoscopic organization determined by groups of units whose dynamical activity is more strongly correlated internally than with the rest of the system. The existing techniques to filter correlations are …

2013-11-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper extends multivariate rank tests for robust subspace detection.

problem Testing distributional similarity in multivariate data.
method Soft and subspace robust multivariate rank tests based on entropy regularized optimal transport.
result Trade-off between detection power and false alarm rate via projections.

Unified deep learning framework improves SV in noisy, reverberant, and long non-speech segments.

problem Robust speaker verification in adverse environments, especially short speech segments.
method Feature Pyramid Module (FPM)-based Multi-scale Aggregation (MSA), Self-adaptive Soft VAD (SAS-VAD), Masking-based Speech Enhancement (SE).
result The proposed method outperforms baseline systems in challenging conditions.

Paper introduces a new uncertainty measure for misclassification detection.

problem Effective detection of unreliable model predictions in machine learning.
method Data-driven measure of uncertainty relative to an observer based on soft-predictions.
result Demonstrates improved misclassification detection over state-of-the-art methods.

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.

CMDNet simplifies MAP detection for large systems with probabilistic relaxation.

problem High complexity of MAP detection in large systems.
method Probabilistic Continuous relaxation of discrete variables, iterative CMD algorithm, CMDNet with online optimization.
result CMDNet achieves a promising accuracy-complexity trade-off in MIMO systems.

Improved neural population modeling using shared features and ensemble detection.

problem Missing shared coding properties in neural latent variable models.
method Feature sharing across tuning curves and soft clustering of neurons.
result More interpretable and better-performing neural population models.

Neural networks learn to mimic brain neurons with two-input activation functions, improving performance and robustness.

problem Training neural networks to mimic the complex interactions of brain neurons.
method Developed a network-in-network architecture with two-input activation functions, optimized hyperparameters, and compared to conventional ReLU networks.
result Two-input activation functions can learn soft XOR functions, improving network performance and robustness.

This paper describes the Speech Technology Center (STC) antispoofing systems submitted to the ASVspoof 2019 challenge. The ASVspoof2019 is the extended version of the previous challenges and includes 2 evaluation conditions: logical access use-case scenario with speech synthesis and voice conversion attack types and ph…

2019-04-11abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we consider Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) detection using deep neural networks. We introduce two different deep architectures: a standard fully connected multi-layer network, and a Detection Network (DetNet) which is specifically designed for the task. The structure of DetNet is obtained by unfold…

2018-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce an algorithmic method for population anomaly detection based on gaussianization through an adversarial autoencoder. This method is applicable to detection of `soft' anomalies in arbitrarily distributed highly-dimensional data. A soft, or population, anomaly is characterized by a shift in the distribution o…

2018-05-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Singing voice conversion is a task to convert a song sang by a source singer to the voice of a target singer. In this paper, we propose using a parallel data free, many-to-one voice conversion technique on singing voices. A phonetic posterior feature is first generated by decoding singing voices through a robust Automa…

2019-03-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Humans are able to imagine a person's voice from the person's appearance and imagine the person's appearance from his/her voice. In this paper, we make the first attempt to develop a method that can convert speech into a voice that matches an input face image and generate a face image that matches the voice of the inpu…

2019-04-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Recently, deep learning becomes the main focus of machine learning research and has greatly impacted many important fields. However, deep learning is criticized for lack of interpretability. As a successful unsupervised model in deep learning, the autoencoder embraces a wide spectrum of applications, yet it suffers fro…

2018-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

SoftCLT improves time series representation learning by soft contrastive loss.

problem Ignoring inherent correlations in time series leads to poor representation quality.
method SoftCLT introduces instance-wise and temporal contrastive loss with soft assignments.
result SoftCLT consistently improves various downstream tasks in time series learning.

Paper uses optimal transport-based statistics for change point detection.

problem Change point detection in multivariate data.
method Soft rank energy and entropically regularized optimal transport.
result Soft rank energy performs better in real datasets with strong continuity and convergence properties.

Pitch or fundamental frequency (f0) extraction is a fundamental problem studied extensively for its potential applications in speech and clinical applications. In literature, explicit mode specific (modal speech or singing voice or emotional/ expressive speech or noisy speech) signal processing and deep learning f0 ext…

2019-04-22abs ↗pdf ↗

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 …

2018-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗