Microsoft at INTERSPEECH 2021

Improving Weakly Supervised Sound Event Detection with Self-Supervised Auxiliary Tasks

Soham Deshmukh, Bhiksha Raj, Rita Singh

Explaining deep learning models for speech enhancement

Sunit Sivasankaran, Emmanuel Vincent, Dominique Fohr

Improving RNN-T for Domain Scaling Using Semi-Supervised Training with Neural TTS

Yan Deng, Rui Zhao, Zhong Meng, Xie Chen, Bing Liu, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong, Lei He

Data Augmentation for Spoken Language Understanding via Pretrained Models

Baolin Peng, Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng, Jianfeng Gao

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

Yan Huang, Guoli Ye, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong

One-Shot Voice Conversion with Speaker-Agnostic StarGAN

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

Multiple Softmax Architecture for Streaming Multilingual End-to-End ASR Systems

Vikas Joshi, Amit Das, Eric Sun, Rupesh Mehta, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong

Streaming Multi-talker Speech Recognition with Joint Speaker Identification

Liang Lu, Naoyuki Kanda, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong

A Light-weight contextual spelling correction model for customizing transducer-based speech recognition systems

Xiaoqiang Wang, Yanqing Liu, Sheng Zhao, Jinyu Li

Subjective Evaluation of Noise Suppression Algorithms in Crowdsourcing

Babak Naderi, Ross Cutler

Multilingual and code-switching ASR challenges for low resource Indian languages

Anuj Diwan, Rakesh Vaideeswaran, Sanket Shah, Ankita Singh, Srinivasa Raghavan, Shreya Khare, Vinit Unni, Saurabh Vyas, Akash Rajpuria, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Ashish Mittal, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, Preethi Jyothi, Kalika Bali, Vivek Seshadri, Sunayana Sitaram, Samarth Bharadwaj, Jai Nanavati, Raoul Nanavati, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Tejaswi Seeram, Basil Abraham

Minimum Word Error Rate Training with Language Model Fusion for End-to-End Speech Recognition

Zhong Meng, Yu Wu, Naoyuki Kanda, Liang Lu, Xie Chen, Guoli Ye, Eric Sun, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong

Human Listening and Live Captioning: Multi-Task Training for Speech Enhancement

Sefik Emre Eskimez, Xiaofei Wang, Min Tang, Hemin Yang, Zirun Zhu, Zhuo Chen, Huaming Wang, Takuya Yoshioka

Single-Channel Speech Enhancement Using Learnable Loss Mixup

Oscar Chang, Dung N. Tran, Kazuhito Koishida

INTERSPEECH 2021 Deep Noise Suppression Challenge

Chandan K. A. Reddy, Harishchandra Dubey, Kazuhito Koishida, Arun Asokan Nair, Vishak Gopal, Ross Cutler, Sebastian Braun, Hannes Gamper, Robert Aichner, Sriram Srinivasan

Analyzing short term dynamic speech features for understanding behavioral traits of children with autism spectrum disorder

Young-Kyung Kim, Rimita Lahiri, Md Nasir, So Hyun Kim, Somer Bishop, Catherine Lord, Shrikanth Narayanan

Ultra Fast Speech Separation Model with Teacher Student Learning

Sanyuan Chen, Yu Wu, Zhuo Chen, Jian Wu, Takuya Yoshioka, Shujie Liu, Jinyu Li, Xiangzhan Yu

Investigation of Practical Aspects of Single Channel Speech Separation for ASR

Jian Wu, Zhuo Chen, Sanyuan Chen, Yu Wu, Takuya Yoshioka, Naoyuki Kanda, Shujie Liu, Jinyu Li

Continuous Speech Separation Using Speaker Inventory for Long Recording

Cong Han, Yi Luo, Chenda Li, Tianyan Zhou, Keisuke Kinoshita, Shinji Watanabe, Marc Delcroix, Hakan Erdogan, John R. Hershey, Nima Mesgarani, Zhuo Chen

Cross-domain Speech Recognition with Unsupervised Character-level Distribution Matching

Wenxin Hou, Jindong Wang, Xu Tan, Tao Qin, Takahiro Shinozaki

Large-Scale Pre-Training of End-to-End Multi-Talker ASR for Meeting Transcription with Single Distant Microphone

Naoyuki Kanda, Guoli Ye, Yu Wu, Yashesh Gaur, Xiaofei Wang, Zhong Meng, Zhuo Chen, Takuya Yoshioka

On Minimum Word Error Rate Training of the Hybrid Autoregressive Transducer

Liang Lu, Zhong Meng, Naoyuki Kanda, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong

Improving Multilingual Transformer Transducer Models by Reducing Language Confusions

Eric Sun, Jinyu Li, Zhong Meng, Yu Wu, Jian Xue, Shujie Liu, Yifan Gong

Target-Speaker Voice Activity Detection with Improved i-Vector Estimation for Unknown Number of Speaker

Maokui He, Desh Raj, Zili Huang, Jun Du, Zhuo Chen, Shinji Watanabe

Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech for Text-Based Insertion in Audio Narration

Chuanxin Tang, Chong Luo, Zhiyuan Zhao, Dacheng Yin, Yucheng Zhao, Wenjun Zeng

AISHELL-4: An Open Source Dataset for Speech Enhancement, Separation, Recognition and Speaker Diarization in Conference Scenario

Yihui Fu, Luyao Cheng, Shubo Lv, Yukai Jv, Yuxiang Kong, Zhuo Chen, Yanxin Hu, Lei Xie, Jian Wu, Hui Bu, Xin Xu, Jun Du, Jingdong Chen

Sequence-level Confidence Classifier for ASR Utterance Accuracy and Application to Acoustic Models

Amber Afshan, Kshitiz Kumar, Jian Wu

End-to-End Speaker-Attributed ASR with Transformer

Naoyuki Kanda, Guoli Ye, Yashesh Gaur, Xiaofei Wang, Zhong Meng, Zhuo Chen, Takuya Yoshioka

Adaptive Text to Speech for Spontaneous Style

Yuzi Yan, Xu Tan, Bohan Li, Guangyan Zhang, Tao Qin, Sheng Zhao, Yuan Shen, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Tie-Yan Liu

Cross-speaker Style Transfer with Prosody Bottleneck in Neural Speech Synthesis

Shifeng Pan, Lei He

Improving Performance of Seen and Unseen Speech Style Transfer in End-to-end Neural TTS

Xiaochun An, Frank Soong, Lei Xie

INTERSPEECH 2021 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge

Ross Cutler, Ando Saabas, Tanel Panarmaa, Markus Loide, Sten Sootla, Marju Purin, Hannes Gamper, Sebastian Braun, Robert Aichner, Sriram Srinivasan