Interspeech 2021

999 papers

Domain-Initial Strengthening in Turkish: Acoustic Cues to Prosodic Hierarchy in Stop Consonants

Kübra Bodur, Sweeney Branje, Morgane Peirolo, Ingrid Tiscareno, James S. German

An Exploration of the Acoustic Space of Rhotics and Laterals in Ruruuli

Margaret Zellers, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Lilja Saeboe, Saudah Namyalo

Dialect Features in Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Gheg Speaking Communities

Josiane Riverin-Coutlée, Conceição Cunha, Enkeleida Kapia, Jonathan Harrington

Prosodic Accommodation in Face-to-Face and Telephone Dialogues

Pavel Šturm, Radek Skarnitzl, Tomáš Nechanský

LeBenchmark: A Reproducible Framework for Assessing Self-Supervised Representation Learning from Speech

Solène Evain, Ha Nguyen, Hang Le, Marcely Zanon Boito, Salima Mdhaffar

SPGISpeech: 5,000 Hours of Transcribed Financial Audio for Fully Formatted End-to-End Speech Recognition

Patrick K. O’Neill, Vitaly Lavrukhin, Somshubra Majumdar, Vahid Noroozi, Yuekai Zhang

Self-Supervised End-to-End ASR for Low Resource L2 Swedish

Ragheb Al-Ghezi, Yaroslav Getman, Aku Rouhe, Raili Hildén, Mikko Kurimo

Radically Old Way of Computing Spectra: Applications in End-to-End ASR

Samik Sadhu, Hynek Hermansky

Golos: Russian Dataset for Speech Research

Nikolay Karpov, Alexander Denisenko, Fedor Minkin

Modeling Dysphonia Severity as a Function of Roughness and Breathiness Ratings in the GRBAS Scale

Carlos A. Ferrer, Efren Aragón, María E. Hdez-Díaz, Marc S. de Bodt, Roman Čmejla

Articulatory Coordination for Speech Motor Tracking in Huntington Disease

Matthew Perez, Amrit Romana, Angela Roberts, Noelle Carlozzi, Jennifer Ann Miner

Accelerometer-Based Measurements of Voice Quality in Children During Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract Exercise with a Narrow Straw in Air

Steven M. Lulich, Rita R. Patel

Automated Detection of Voice Disorder in the Saarbrücken Voice Database: Effects of Pathology Subset and Audio Materials

Mark Huckvale, Catinca Buciuleac

Investigating Voice Function Characteristics of Greek Speakers with Hearing Loss Using Automatic Glottal Source Feature Extraction

Anna Sfakianaki, George P. Kafentzis

A Comparison of Acoustic Correlates of Voice Quality Across Different Recording Devices: A Cautionary Tale

Joshua Penney, Andy Gibson, Felicity Cox, Michael Proctor, Anita Szakay

Optimizing an Automatic Creaky Voice Detection Method for Australian English Speaking Females

Hannah White, Joshua Penney, Andy Gibson, Anita Szakay, Felicity Cox

Improving Robustness of One-Shot Voice Conversion with Deep Discriminative Speaker Encoder

Hongqiang Du, Lei Xie

Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion with a Cycle Consistency Loss on Linguistic Representation

Yi Zhou, Xiaohai Tian, Zhizheng Wu, Haizhou Li

Non-Parallel Any-to-Many Voice Conversion by Replacing Speaker Statistics

Yufei Liu, Chengzhu Yu, Wang Shuai, Zhenchuan Yang, Yang Chao

Two-Pathway Style Embedding for Arbitrary Voice Conversion

Xuexin Xu, Liang Shi, Jinhui Chen, Xunquan Chen, Jie Lian

StarGAN-VC+ASR: StarGAN-Based Non-Parallel Voice Conversion Regularized by Automatic Speech Recognition

Shoki Sakamoto, Akira Taniguchi, Tadahiro Taniguchi, Hirokazu Kameoka

Normalization Driven Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker Speech Synthesis

Neeraj Kumar, Srishti Goel, Ankur Narang, Brejesh Lall

StarGANv2-VC: A Diverse, Unsupervised, Non-Parallel Framework for Natural-Sounding Voice Conversion

Yinghao Aaron Li, Ali Zare, Nima Mesgarani

VQMIVC: Vector Quantization and Mutual Information-Based Unsupervised Speech Representation Disentanglement for One-Shot Voice Conversion

Disong Wang, Liqun Deng, Yu Ting Yeung, Xiao Chen, Xunying Liu

Fine-Tuning Pre-Trained Voice Conversion Model for Adding New Target Speakers with Limited Data

Takeshi Koshizuka, Hidefumi Ohmura, Kouichi Katsurada

One-Shot Voice Conversion with Speaker-Agnostic StarGAN

Sefik Emre Eskimez, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Kenichi Kumatani, Robert Gmyr

A Preliminary Study of a Two-Stage Paradigm for Preserving Speaker Identity in Dysarthric Voice Conversion

Wen-Chin Huang, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Yu-Huai Peng, Ching-Feng Liu, Yu Tsao

CVC: Contrastive Learning for Non-Parallel Voice Conversion

Tingle Li, Yichen Liu, Chenxu Hu, Hang Zhao

Extending Pronunciation Dictionary with Automatically Detected Word Mispronunciations to Improve PAII’s System for Interspeech 2021 Non-Native Child English Close Track ASR Challenge

Wei Chu, Peng Chang, Jing Xiao

Best of Both Worlds: Robust Accented Speech Recognition with Adversarial Transfer Learning

Nilaksh Das, Sravan Bodapati, Monica Sunkara, Sundararajan Srinivasan, Duen Horng Chau

Rapid Speaker Adaptation for Conformer Transducer: Attention and Bias Are All You Need

Yan Huang, Guoli Ye, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong

Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Phonetic Recognition with External Language Embedding

Heting Gao, Junrui Ni, Yang Zhang, Kaizhi Qian, Shiyu Chang

On-the-Fly Aligned Data Augmentation for Sequence-to-Sequence ASR

Tsz Kin Lam, Mayumi Ohta, Shigehiko Schamoni, Stefan Riezler

The TAL System for the INTERSPEECH2021 Shared Task on Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-Native Childrens Speech

Gaopeng Xu, Song Yang, Lu Ma, Chengfei Li, Zhongqin Wu

Speaker Normalization Using Joint Variational Autoencoder

Shashi Kumar, Shakti P. Rath, Abhishek Pandey

Robust Continuous On-Device Personalization for Automatic Speech Recognition

Khe Chai Sim, Angad Chandorkar, Fan Gao, Mason Chua, Tsendsuren Munkhdalai

Low Resource German ASR with Untranscribed Data Spoken by Non-Native Children — INTERSPEECH 2021 Shared Task SPAPL System

Jinhan Wang, Yunzheng Zhu, Ruchao Fan, Wei Chu, Abeer Alwan

Layer-Wise Fast Adaptation for End-to-End Multi-Accent Speech Recognition

Xun Gong, Yizhou Lu, Zhikai Zhou, Yanmin Qian

Semantic Data Augmentation for End-to-End Mandarin Speech Recognition

Jianwei Sun, Zhiyuan Tang, Hengxin Yin, Wei Wang, Xi Zhao

Rethinking End-to-End Evaluation of Decomposable Tasks: A Case Study on Spoken Language Understanding

Siddhant Arora, Alissa Ostapenko, Vijay Viswanathan, Siddharth Dalmia, Florian Metze

Coreference Augmentation for Multi-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue State Tracking

Ting Han, Chongxuan Huang, Wei Peng

Integrating Dialog History into End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding Systems

Jatin Ganhotra, Samuel Thomas, Hong-Kwang J. Kuo, Sachindra Joshi, George Saon

Predicting Temporal Performance Drop of Deployed Production Spoken Language Understanding Models

Quynh Do, Judith Gaspers, Daniil Sorokin, Patrick Lehnen

Pre-Training for Spoken Language Understanding with Joint Textual and Phonetic Representation Learning

Qian Chen, Wen Wang, Qinglin Zhang

A Context-Aware Hierarchical BERT Fusion Network for Multi-Turn Dialog Act Detection

Ting-Wei Wu, Ruolin Su, Biing-Hwang Juang

DEXTER: Deep Encoding of External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition in Virtual Assistants

Deepak Muralidharan, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Weicheng Zhang, Stephen Pulman, Lin Li

Sequential End-to-End Intent and Slot Label Classification and Localization

Yiran Cao, Nihal Potdar, Anderson R. Avila

FANS: Fusing ASR and NLU for On-Device SLU

Martin Radfar, Athanasios Mouchtaris, Siegfried Kunzmann, Ariya Rastrow

Data Augmentation for Spoken Language Understanding via Pretrained Language Models

Baolin Peng, Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng, Jianfeng Gao

Do Sound Event Representations Generalize to Other Audio Tasks? A Case Study in Audio Transfer Learning

Anurag Kumar, Yun Wang, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, Christian Fuegen

Pitch Contour Separation from Overlapping Speech

Hiroki Mori

FRILL: A Non-Semantic Speech Embedding for Mobile Devices

Jacob Peplinski, Joel Shor, Sachin Joglekar, Jake Garrison, Shwetak Patel

Synchronising Speech Segments with Musical Beats in Mandarin and English Singing

Cong Zhang, Jian Zhu

SUPERB: Speech Processing Universal PERformance Benchmark

Shu-wen Yang, Po-Han Chi, Yung-Sung Chuang, Cheng-I Jeff Lai, Kushal Lakhotia

Unsupervised Training of a DNN-Based Formant Tracker

Jason Lilley, H. Timothy Bunnell

Raw Speech-to-Articulatory Inversion by Temporal Filtering and Decimation

Abdolreza Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Torbjørn Svendsen

An Attribute-Aligned Strategy for Learning Speech Representation

Yu-Lin Huang, Bo-Hao Su, Y.-W. Peter Hong, Chi-Chun Lee

Noise Robust Pitch Stylization Using Minimum Mean Absolute Error Criterion

Chiranjeevi Yarra, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Dropout Regularization for Self-Supervised Learning of Transformer Encoder Speech Representation

Jian Luo, Jianzong Wang, Ning Cheng, Jing Xiao

Speech Decomposition Based on a Hybrid Speech Model and Optimal Segmentation

Alfredo Esquivel Jaramillo, Jesper Kjær Nielsen, Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Unsupervised Multi-Target Domain Adaptation for Acoustic Scene Classification

Dongchao Yang, Helin Wang, Yuexian Zou

Estimating Articulatory Movements in Speech Production with Transformer Networks

Sathvik Udupa, Anwesha Roy, Abhayjeet Singh, Aravind Illa, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Should We Always Separate?: Switching Between Enhanced and Observed Signals for Overlapping Speech Recognition

Hiroshi Sato, Tsubasa Ochiai, Marc Delcroix, Keisuke Kinoshita, Takafumi Moriya

Joint Online Multichannel Acoustic Echo Cancellation, Speech Dereverberation and Source Separation

Yueyue Na, Ziteng Wang, Zhang Liu, Biao Tian, Qiang Fu

A Deep Learning Approach to Multi-Channel and Multi-Microphone Acoustic Echo Cancellation

Hao Zhang, Deliang Wang

Manifold-Aware Deep Clustering: Maximizing Angles Between Embedding Vectors Based on Regular Simplex

Keitaro Tanaka, Ryosuke Sawata, Shusuke Takahashi

Scene-Agnostic Multi-Microphone Speech Dereverberation

Yochai Yemini, Ethan Fetaya, Haggai Maron, Sharon Gannot

Personalized PercepNet: Real-Time, Low-Complexity Target Voice Separation and Enhancement

Ritwik Giri, Shrikant Venkataramani, Jean-Marc Valin, Umut Isik, Arvindh Krishnaswamy

MIMO Self-Attentive RNN Beamformer for Multi-Speaker Speech Separation

Xiyun Li, Yong Xu, Meng Yu, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Jiaming Xu

Residual Echo and Noise Cancellation with Feature Attention Module and Multi-Domain Loss Function

Jianjun Gu, Longbiao Cheng, Xingwei Sun, Junfeng Li, Yonghong Yan

TeCANet: Temporal-Contextual Attention Network for Environment-Aware Speech Dereverberation

Helin Wang, Bo Wu, Lianwu Chen, Meng Yu, Jianwei Yu

Multi-Stream Gated and Pyramidal Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks for Audio-Visual Speech Separation in Multi-Talker Environments

Yiyu Luo, Jing Wang, Liang Xu, Lidong Yang

Speaker Anonymisation Using the McAdams Coefficient

Jose Patino, Natalia Tomashenko, Massimiliano Todisco, Andreas Nautsch, Nicholas Evans

Multi-Level Transfer Learning from Near-Field to Far-Field Speaker Verification

Li Zhang, Qing Wang, Kong Aik Lee, Lei Xie, Haizhou Li

Joint Feature Enhancement and Speaker Recognition with Multi-Objective Task-Oriented Network

Yibo Wu, Longbiao Wang, Kong Aik Lee, Meng Liu, Jianwu Dang

Scaling Effect of Self-Supervised Speech Models

Jie Pu, Yuguang Yang, Ruirui Li, Oguz Elibol, Jasha Droppo

Deep Feature CycleGANs: Speaker Identity Preserving Non-Parallel Microphone-Telephone Domain Adaptation for Speaker Verification

Saurabh Kataria, Jesus Villalba, Piotr Żelasko, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Najim Dehak

Gradient Regularization for Noise-Robust Speaker Verification

Jianchen Li, Jiqing Han, Hongwei Song

AntVoice Neural Speaker Embedding System for FFSVC 2020

Zhiming Wang, Furong Xu, Kaisheng Yao, Yuan Cheng, Tao Xiong

SpeakerStew: Scaling to Many Languages with a Triaged Multilingual Text-Dependent and Text-Independent Speaker Verification System

Roza Chojnacka, Jason Pelecanos, Quan Wang, Ignacio Lopez Moreno

Out of a Hundred Trials, How Many Errors Does Your Speaker Verifier Make?

Niko Brümmer, Luciana Ferrer, Albert Swart

Variational Information Bottleneck Based Regularization for Speaker Recognition

Dan Wang, Yuanjie Dong, Yaxing Li, Yunfei Zi, Zhihui Zhang

Improved Meta-Learning Training for Speaker Verification

Yafeng Chen, Wu Guo, Bin Gu

The DKU-Duke-Lenovo System Description for the Fearless Steps Challenge Phase III

Weiqing Wang, Danwei Cai, Jin Wang, Qingjian Lin, Xuyang Wang

Unsupervised Bayesian Adaptation of PLDA for Speaker Verification

Bengt J. Borgström

Acoustic-Prosodic, Lexical and Demographic Cues to Persuasiveness in Competitive Debate Speeches

Huyen Nguyen, Ralph Vente, David Lupea, Sarah Ita Levitan, Julia Hirschberg

Speaking Corona? Human and Machine Recognition of COVID-19 from Voice

Pascal Hecker, Florian B. Pokorny, Katrin D. Bartl-Pokorny, Uwe Reichel, Zhao Ren

Audio-Visual Recognition of Emotional Engagement of People with Dementia

Lars Steinert, Felix Putze, Dennis Küster, Tanja Schultz

Measuring Voice Quality Parameters After Speaker Pseudonymization

Rob J.J.H. van Son

Automatic Classification of Phonation Types in Spontaneous Speech: Towards a New Workflow for the Characterization of Speakers’ Voice Quality

Anaïs Chanclu, Imen Ben Amor, Cedric Gendrot, Emmanuel Ferragne, Jean-Francois Bonastre

Glottal Sounds in Korebaju

Jenifer Vega Rodríguez, Nathalie Vallée

Cue Interaction in the Perception of Prosodic Prominence: The Role of Voice Quality

Bogdan Ludusan, Petra Wagner, Marcin Włodarczak

Glottal Stops in Upper Sorbian: A Data-Driven Approach

Ivan Kraljevski, Maria Paola Bissiri, Frank Duckhorn, Constanze Tschoepe, Matthias Wolff

Synchronic Fortition in Five Romance Languages? A Large Corpus-Based Study of Word-Initial Devoicing

Mathilde Hutin, Yaru Wu, Adèle Jatteau, Ioana Vasilescu, Lori Lamel

Voice Quality in Verbal Irony: Electroglottographic Analyses of Ironic Utterances in Standard Austrian German

Hannah Leykum

Fearless Steps Challenge Phase-3 (FSC P3): Advancing SLT for Unseen Channel and Mission Data Across NASA Apollo Audio

Aditya Joglekar, Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Meena Chandra-Shekar, Christopher Cieri, John H.L. Hansen

Neural Text Denormalization for Speech Transcripts

Benjamin Suter, Josef Novak

Aligned Contrastive Predictive Coding

Jan Chorowski, Grzegorz Ciesielski, Jarosław Dzikowski, Adrian Łańcucki, Ricard Marxer

Information Retrieval for ZeroSpeech 2021: The Submission by University of Wroclaw

Jan Chorowski, Grzegorz Ciesielski, Jarosław Dzikowski, Adrian Łańcucki, Ricard Marxer

Forty Years of Speech and Language Processing: From Bayes Decision Rule to Deep Learning

Hermann Ney