Pub­lic­a­tions of the Com­mu­nic­a­tions En­gin­eer­ing Group

2024

The CHiME-8 DASR Challenge for Generalizable and Array Agnostic Distant Automatic Speech Recognition and Diarization

S. Cornell, T. Park, S. Huang, C. Boeddeker, X. Chang, M. Maciejewski, M. Wiesner, P. Garcia, S. Watanabe, ArXiv:2407.16447 (2024).


Diminishing Domain Mismatch for DNN-Based Acoustic Distance Estimation via Stochastic Room Reverberation Models

T. Gburrek, A. Meise, J. Schmalenstroeer, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 2024 18th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), IEEE, 2024.


UPB-NT submission to DCASE24: Dataset pruning for targeted knowledge distillation

A. Werning, R. Haeb-Umbach, UPB-NT Submission to DCASE24: Dataset Pruning for Targeted Knowledge Distillation, 2024.


Target-Specific Dataset Pruning for Compression of Audio Tagging Models

A. Werning, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2024), 2024.


Speaker and Style Disentanglement of Speech Based on Contrastive Predictive Coding Supported Factorized Variational Autoencoder

Y. Xie, M. Kuhlmann, F. Rautenberg, Z.-H. Tan, R. Häb-Umbach, in: 2024 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2024, pp. 436–440.


Meeting Recognition with Continuous Speech Separation and Transcription-Supported Diarization

T. von Neumann, C. Boeddeker, T. Cord-Landwehr, M. Delcroix, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), IEEE, 2024.


TS-SEP: Joint Diarization and Separation Conditioned on Estimated Speaker Embeddings

C. Boeddeker, A.S. Subramanian, G. Wichern, R. Haeb-Umbach, J. Le Roux, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 32 (2024) 1185–1197.


Geodesic Interpolation of Frame-Wise Speaker Embeddings for the Diarization of Meeting Scenarios

T. Cord-Landwehr, C. Boeddeker, C. Zorilă, R. Doddipatla, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, 2024.



Once more Diarization: Improving meeting transcription systems through segment-level speaker reassignment

C. Boeddeker, T. Cord-Landwehr, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Interspeech 2024, ISCA, 2024.


Combining TF-GridNet and Mixture Encoder for Continuous Speech Separation for Meeting Transcription

P. Vieting, S. Berger, T. von Neumann, C. Boeddeker, R. Schlüter, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 2024 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2024.


2023

On the Integration of Sampling Rate Synchronization and Acoustic Beamforming

T. Gburrek, J. Schmalenstroeer, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2023.


LibriWASN: A Data Set for Meeting Separation, Diarization, and Recognition with Asynchronous Recording Devices

J. Schmalenstroeer, T. Gburrek, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ITG Conference on Speech Communication, 2023.


On Feature Importance and Interpretability of Speaker Representations

F. Rautenberg, M. Kuhlmann, J. Wiechmann, F. Seebauer, P. Wagner, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ITG Conference on Speech Communication, 2023.


Explaining voice characteristics to novice voice practitioners-How successful is it?

J. Wiechmann, F. Rautenberg, P. Wagner, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) , 2023.


Reverberation as Supervision For Speech Separation

R. Aralikatti, C. Boeddeker, G. Wichern, A. Subramanian, J. Le Roux, in: ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, 2023.


Re-examining the quality dimensions of synthetic speech

F. Seebauer, M. Kuhlmann, R. Haeb-Umbach, P. Wagner, in: 12th Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW) 2023, 2023.


Segment-Less Continuous Speech Separation of Meetings: Training and Evaluation Criteria

T. von Neumann, K. Kinoshita, C. Boeddeker, M. Delcroix, R. Haeb-Umbach, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 31 (2023) 576–589.


Spatial Diarization for Meeting Transcription with Ad-Hoc Acoustic Sensor Networks

T. Gburrek, J. Schmalenstroeer, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2023.


Speech Disentanglement for Analysis and Modification of Acoustic and Perceptual Speaker Characteristics

F. Rautenberg, M. Kuhlmann, J. Ebbers, J. Wiechmann, F. Seebauer, P. Wagner, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Fortschritte Der Akustik - DAGA 2023, 2023, pp. 1409–1412.


Post-Processing Independent Evaluation of Sound Event Detection Systems

J. Ebbers, R. Haeb-Umbach, R. Serizel, in: Proceedings of the 8th Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events 2023 Workshop (DCASE2023), Tampere, Finland, 2023, pp. 36–40.


DISCERNING DIMENSIONS OF QUALITY FOR STATE OF THE ART SYNTHETIC SPEECH

F. Seebauer, M. Kuhlmann, R. Häb-Umbach, P. Wagner, in: Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2023.


Investigating Speaker Embedding Disentanglement on Natural Read Speech

M. Kuhlmann, A. Meise, F. Seebauer, P. Wagner, R. Häb-Umbach, in: Speech Communication; 15th ITG Conference, 2023, pp. 121–125.


On Word Error Rate Definitions and Their Efficient Computation for Multi-Speaker Speech Recognition Systems

T. von Neumann, C. Boeddeker, K. Kinoshita, M. Delcroix, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, 2023.


MeetEval: A Toolkit for Computation of Word Error Rates for Meeting Transcription Systems

T. von Neumann, C. Boeddeker, M. Delcroix, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. CHiME 2023 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, 2023.


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