Project Details

Multi-lingualita v řečových technologiích

Project Period: 1. 1. 2020 – 31. 8. 2023

Project Type: grant

Code: LTAIN19087

Agency: Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy ČR

Program: INTER-EXCELLENCE - Podprogram INTER-ACTION 19LTAIN

English title
Multi-linguality in speech technologies
Type
grant
Keywords

multi-linguality, speech recognition, machine learning, data, transfer learning

Abstract

Speech data mining technologies and human-machine interfaces based on speech have witnessed significant advances in the past decade and numerous applications have been successfully commercialized. However, they usually work correctly only in favorable scenarios - in languages with abundance of training data and in relatively clean environments, such as office or apartment. In fast developing big markets such as the Indian one, severe problems make the exploitation of speech difficult: multitude of languages (some of them with limited or missing resources), highly noisy conditions (lots of business is simply done on the streets in Indian cities), and highly variable numbers of speakers in a conversation (from normal two to whole families). These make the development of automatic speech recognition (ASR), speaker recognition (SR) and speaker diarization (determining who spoke when, SD) complicated. In the proposed project, two established research institutes with significant track multi-lingual ASR, robust SR and SD: Brno University of Technology (BUT), IIT Madras (IIT-M) have teamed up with an important player on the Indian and global personal electronics markets - Samsung R&D Institute India-Bangalore (SRI-B), and propose significant advances in several speech technologies, notably in multi-lingual low-resource ASR. While BUT and IIT-M will provide top speech research (based, among others, on the U.S. IARPA Babel and Material programs, victory in IARPA ASpIRE evaluation and in Interspeech 2018 Low Resource Speech Recognition Challenge for Indian Languages, and on Indian MANDI project), SRI-B will provide data, industrial guidelines and to produce demonstrators of technologies.

Team members
Černocký Jan, prof. Dr. Ing. (DCGM) – research leader
Egorova Ekaterina, Ing., Ph.D.
Skácel Miroslav, Ing.
Žižka Josef, Ing. (DCGM)
Publications

2023

  • KESIRAJU, S.; BENEŠ, K.; TIKHONOV, M.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. BUT Systems for IWSLT 2023 Marathi - Hindi Low Resource Speech Translation Task. In 20th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2023 - Proceedings of the Conference. Toronto (in-person and online): Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. p. 227-234. ISBN: 978-1-959429-84-5. Detail
  • MATĚJKA, P.; SILNOVA, A.; SLAVÍČEK, J.; MOŠNER, L.; PLCHOT, O.; KLČO, M.; PENG, J.; STAFYLAKIS, T.; BURGET, L. Description and Analysis of ABC Submission to NIST LRE 2022. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. Proceedings of Interspeech. Dublin: International Speech Communication Association, 2023. p. 511-515. ISSN: 1990-9772. Detail
  • MOŠNER, L.; PLCHOT, O.; PENG, J.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Multi-Channel Speech Separation with Cross-Attention and Beamforming. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. Proceedings of Interspeech. Dublin: International Speech Communication Association, 2023. p. 1693-1697. ISSN: 1990-9772. Detail
  • PENG, J.; PLCHOT, O.; STAFYLAKIS, T.; MOŠNER, L.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. An attention-based backend allowing efficient fine-tuning of transformer models for speaker verification. In 2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2022 - Proceedings. Doha: IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2023. p. 555-562. ISBN: 978-1-6654-7189-3. Detail
  • PENG, J.; PLCHOT, O.; STAFYLAKIS, T.; MOŠNER, L.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Improving Speaker Verification with Self-Pretrained Transformer Models. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. Proceedings of Interspeech. Dublin: International Speech Communication Association, 2023. p. 5361-5365. ISSN: 1990-9772. Detail
  • PENG, J.; STAFYLAKIS, T.; GU, R.; PLCHOT, O.; MOŠNER, L.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning of Pre-Trained Transformer Models for Speaker Verification Using Adapters. In ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. Rhodes Island: IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2023. p. 1-5. ISBN: 978-1-7281-6327-7. Detail
  • SILNOVA, A.; SLAVÍČEK, J.; MOŠNER, L.; KLČO, M.; PLCHOT, O.; MATĚJKA, P.; PENG, J.; STAFYLAKIS, T.; BURGET, L. ABC System Description for NIST LRE 2022. Proceedings of NIST LRE 2022 Workshop. Washington DC: National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2023. p. 1-5. Detail
  • STAFYLAKIS, T.; MOŠNER, L.; KAKOUROS, S.; PLCHOT, O.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Extracting speaker and emotion information from self-supervised speech models via channel-wise correlations. In 2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2022 - Proceedings. Doha: IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2023. p. 1136-1143. ISBN: 978-1-6654-7189-3. Detail
  • ŽMOLÍKOVÁ, K.; DELCROIX, M.; OCHIAI, T.; ČERNOCKÝ, J.; KINOSHITA, K.; YU, D. Neural Target Speech Extraction: An overview. IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE, 2023, vol. 40, no. 3, p. 8-29. ISSN: 1558-0792. Detail

2022

  • ALAM, J.; BURGET, L.; GLEMBEK, O.; MATĚJKA, P.; MOŠNER, L.; PLCHOT, O.; ROHDIN, J.; SILNOVA, A.; STAFYLAKIS, T. Development of ABC systems for the 2021 edition of NIST Speaker Recognition evaluation. Proceedings of The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey 2022). Beijing: International Speech Communication Association, 2022. p. 346-353. Detail
  • BASKAR, M.; HERZIG, T.; NGUYEN, D.; DIEZ SÁNCHEZ, M.; POLZEHL, T.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Speaker adaptation for Wav2vec2 based dysarthric ASR. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. Proceedings of Interspeech. Incheon: International Speech Communication Association, 2022. p. 3403-3407. ISSN: 1990-9772. Detail
  • DE BENITO GORRON, D.; ŽMOLÍKOVÁ, K.; TORRE TOLEDANO, D. Source Separation for Sound Event Detection in domestic environments using jointly trained models. In Proceedings of The 17th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC 2022). Bamberg: IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2022. p. 1-5. ISBN: 978-1-6654-6867-1. Detail
  • EGOROVA, E.; VYDANA, H.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Spelling-Aware Word-Based End-to-End ASR. IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS, 2022, vol. 29, no. 29, p. 1729-1733. ISSN: 1558-2361. Detail
  • HAN, J.; LONG, Y.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. DPCCN: Densely-Connected Pyramid Complex Convolutional Network for Robust Speech Separation and Extraction. In ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. Singapore: IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2022. p. 7292-7296. ISBN: 978-1-6654-0540-9. Detail
  • KOCOUR, M.; UMESH, J.; KARAFIÁT, M.; ŠVEC, J.; LOPEZ, F.; BENEŠ, K.; DIEZ SÁNCHEZ, M.; SZŐKE, I.; LUQUE, J.; VESELÝ, K.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. BCN2BRNO: ASR System Fusion for Albayzin 2022 Speech to Text Challenge. Proceedings of IberSpeech 2022. Granada: International Speech Communication Association, 2022. p. 276-280. Detail
  • KOCOUR, M.; ŽMOLÍKOVÁ, K.; ONDEL YANG, L.; ŠVEC, J.; DELCROIX, M.; OCHIAI, T.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Revisiting joint decoding based multi-talker speech recognition with DNN acoustic model. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. Proceedings of Interspeech. Incheon: International Speech Communication Association, 2022. p. 4955-4959. ISSN: 1990-9772. Detail
  • MOŠNER, L.; PLCHOT, O.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Multi-Channel Speaker Verification with Conv-Tasnet Based Beamformer. In ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. Singapore: IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2022. p. 7982-7986. ISBN: 978-1-6654-0540-9. Detail
  • MOŠNER, L.; PLCHOT, O.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Multisv: Dataset for Far-Field Multi-Channel Speaker Verification. In ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. Singapore: IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2022. p. 7977-7981. ISBN: 978-1-6654-0540-9. Detail
  • PENG, J.; GU, R.; MOŠNER, L.; PLCHOT, O.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Learnable Sparse Filterbank for Speaker Verification. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. Proceedings of Interspeech. Incheon: International Speech Communication Association, 2022. p. 5110-5114. ISSN: 1990-9772. Detail
  • PENG, J.; ZHANG, C.; ČERNOCKÝ, J.; YU, D. Progressive contrastive learning for self-supervised text-independent speaker verification. Proceedings of The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey 2022). Beijing: International Speech Communication Association, 2022. p. 17-24. Detail
  • SILNOVA, A.; STAFYLAKIS, T.; MOŠNER, L.; PLCHOT, O.; ROHDIN, J.; MATĚJKA, P.; BURGET, L.; GLEMBEK, O.; BRUMMER, J. Analyzing speaker verification embedding extractors and back-ends under language and channel mismatch. Proceedings of The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey 2022). Beijing: International Speech Communication Association, 2022. p. 9-16. Detail
  • ŠVEC, J.; ŽMOLÍKOVÁ, K.; KOCOUR, M.; DELCROIX, M.; OCHIAI, T.; MOŠNER, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Analysis of impact of emotions on target speech extraction and speech separation. In Proceedings of The 17th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC 2022). Bamberg: IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2022. p. 1-5. ISBN: 978-1-6654-6867-1. Detail

2021

  • BASKAR, M.; BURGET, L.; WATANABE, S.; ASTUDILLO, R.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Eat: Enhanced ASR-TTS for Self-Supervised Speech Recognition. In ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Toronto, Ontario: IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2021. p. 6753-6757. ISBN: 978-1-7281-7605-5. Detail
  • KOCOUR, M.; CÁMBARA, G.; LUQUE, J.; BONET, D.; FARRÚS, M.; KARAFIÁT, M.; VESELÝ, K.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. BCN2BRNO: ASR System Fusion for Albayzin 2020 Speech to Text Challenge. Proceedings of IberSPEECH 2021. Vallaloid: International Speech Communication Association, 2021. p. 113-117. Detail
  • LANDINI, F.; GLEMBEK, O.; MATĚJKA, P.; ROHDIN, J.; BURGET, L.; DIEZ SÁNCHEZ, M.; SILNOVA, A. Analysis of the BUT Diarization System for Voxconverse Challenge. In ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Toronto, Ontario: IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2021. p. 5819-5823. ISBN: 978-1-7281-7605-5. Detail
  • PENG, J.; QU, X.; GU, R.; WANG, J.; XIAO, J.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Effective Phase Encoding for End-To-End Speaker Verification. In Proceedings Interspeech 2021. Proceedings of Interspeech. Brno: International Speech Communication Association, 2021. p. 2366-2370. ISSN: 1990-9772. Detail
  • PENG, J.; QU, X.; WANG, J.; GU, R.; XIAO, J.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. ICSpk: Interpretable Complex Speaker Embedding Extractor from Raw Waveform. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. Proceedings of Interspeech. Brno: International Speech Communication Association, 2021. p. 511-515. ISSN: 1990-9772. Detail
  • YUSUF, B.; ONDEL YANG, L.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J.; SARAÇLAR, M. A Hierarchical Subspace Model for Language-Attuned Acoustic Unit Discovery. In ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Toronto, Ontario: IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2021. p. 3710-3714. ISBN: 978-1-7281-7605-5. Detail
  • ŽMOLÍKOVÁ, K.; DELCROIX, M.; BURGET, L.; NAKATANI, T.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Integration of Variational Autoencoder and Spatial Clustering for Adaptive Multi-Channel Neural Speech Separation. In 2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2021 - Proceedings. Shenzhen - virtual: IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2021. p. 889-896. ISBN: 978-1-7281-7066-4. Detail
  • ŽMOLÍKOVÁ, K.; DELCROIX, M.; RAJ, D.; WATANABE, S.; ČERNOCKÝ, J. Auxiliary Loss Function for Target Speech Extraction and Recognition with Weak Supervision Based on Speaker Characteristics. In Proceedings of 2021 Interspeech. Proceedings of Interspeech. Brno: International Speech Communication Association, 2021. p. 1464-1468. ISSN: 1990-9772. Detail

2020

  • LOZANO DÍEZ, A.; SILNOVA, A.; PULUGUNDLA, B.; ROHDIN, J.; VESELÝ, K.; BURGET, L.; PLCHOT, O.; GLEMBEK, O.; NOVOTNÝ, O.; MATĚJKA, P. BUT Text-Dependent Speaker Verification System for SdSV Challenge 2020. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. Proceedings of Interspeech. Shanghai: International Speech Communication Association, 2020. p. 761-765. ISSN: 1990-9772. Detail
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