Publications - Heinz Nixdorf Institut (HNI)

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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

Simultaneous Diarization and Separation of Meetings through the Integration of Statistical Mixture Models

T. Cord-Landwehr, C. Boeddeker, R. Haeb-Umbach, (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.

On the Integration of Sampling Rate Synchronization and Acoustic Beamforming

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

Frame-Wise and Overlap-Robust Speaker Embeddings for Meeting Diarization

T. Cord-Landwehr, C. Boeddeker, C. Zorilă, R. Doddipatla, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, 2023.

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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.

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A Teacher-Student Approach for Extracting Informative Speaker Embeddings From Speech Mixtures

T. Cord-Landwehr, C. Boeddeker, C. Zorilă, R. Doddipatla, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2023, ISCA, 2023.

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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.

arXiv

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.

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Mixture Encoder for Joint Speech Separation and Recognition

S. Berger, P. Vieting, C. Boeddeker, R. Schlüter, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2023, ISCA, 2023.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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Multi-stage diarization refinement for the CHiME-7 DASR scenario

C. Boeddeker, T. Cord-Landwehr, T. von Neumann, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 7th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2023), ISCA, 2023.

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