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09/17/2023
Zero- and Few-shot Sound Event Localization and Detection
Sound event localization and detection (SELD) systems estimate direction...
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08/21/2023
Towards Objective Evaluation of Socially-Situated Conversational Robots: Assessing Human-Likeness through Multimodal User Behaviors
This paper tackles the challenging task of evaluating socially situated ...
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07/28/2023
Reasoning before Responding: Integrating Commonsense-based Causality Explanation for Empathetic Response Generation
Recent approaches to empathetic response generation try to incorporate c...
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05/18/2023
Diffusion-Based Speech Enhancement with Joint Generative and Predictive Decoders
Diffusion-based speech enhancement (SE) has been investigated recently, ...
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03/26/2023
Time-domain Speech Enhancement Assisted by Multi-resolution Frequency Encoder and Decoder
Time-domain speech enhancement (SE) has recently been intensively invest...
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03/01/2023
I Know Your Feelings Before You Do: Predicting Future Affective Reactions in Human-Computer Dialogue
Current Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDSs) often serve as passive listeners ...
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11/15/2022
Alzheimer's Dementia Detection through Spontaneous Dialogue with Proactive Robotic Listeners
As the aging of society continues to accelerate, Alzheimer's Disease (AD...
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09/08/2022
Non-autoregressive Error Correction for CTC-based ASR with Phone-conditioned Masked LM
Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) -based models are attractive...
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09/05/2022
Distilling the Knowledge of BERT for CTC-based ASR
Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) -based models are attractive...
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07/07/2022
End-to-end Speech-to-Punctuated-Text Recognition
Conventional automatic speech recognition systems do not produce punctua...
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10/05/2021
ASR Rescoring and Confidence Estimation with ELECTRA
In automatic speech recognition (ASR) rescoring, the hypothesis with the...
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09/09/2021
Non-autoregressive End-to-end Speech Translation with Parallel Autoregressive Rescoring
This article describes an efficient end-to-end speech translation (E2E-S...
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07/15/2021
VAD-free Streaming Hybrid CTC/Attention ASR for Unsegmented Recording
In this work, we propose novel decoding algorithms to enable streaming a...
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07/01/2021
StableEmit: Selection Probability Discount for Reducing Emission Latency of Streaming Monotonic Attention ASR
While attention-based encoder-decoder (AED) models have been successfull...
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06/04/2021
ERICA: An Empathetic Android Companion for Covid-19 Quarantine
Over the past year, research in various domains, including Natural Langu...
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05/02/2021
Intelligent Conversational Android ERICA Applied to Attentive Listening and Job Interview
Following the success of spoken dialogue systems (SDS) in smartphone ass...
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04/13/2021
Source and Target Bidirectional Knowledge Distillation for End-to-end Speech Translation
A conventional approach to improving the performance of end-to-end speec...
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02/28/2021
Alignment Knowledge Distillation for Online Streaming Attention-based Speech Recognition
This article describes an efficient training method for online streaming...
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10/25/2020
Orthros: Non-autoregressive End-to-end Speech Translation with Dual-decoder
Fast inference speed is an important goal towards real-world deployment ...
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09/15/2020
Multi-Referenced Training for Dialogue Response Generation
In open-domain dialogue response generation, a dialogue context can be c...
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08/09/2020
Distilling the Knowledge of BERT for Sequence-to-Sequence ASR
Attention-based sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models have achieved prom...
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05/19/2020
Enhancing Monotonic Multihead Attention for Streaming ASR
We investigate a monotonic multihead attention (MMA) by extending hard m...
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05/19/2020
Generative Adversarial Training Data Adaptation for Very Low-resource Automatic Speech Recognition
It is important to transcribe and archive speech data of endangered lang...
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05/10/2020
CTC-synchronous Training for Monotonic Attention Model
Monotonic chunkwise attention (MoChA) has been studied for the online st...
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04/23/2020
End-to-end speech-to-dialog-act recognition
Spoken language understanding, which extracts intents and/or semantic co...
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04/10/2020
Designing Precise and Robust Dialogue Response Evaluators
Automatic dialogue response evaluator has been proposed as an alternativ...
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02/16/2020
Speech Corpus of Ainu Folklore and End-to-end Speech Recognition for Ainu Language
Ainu is an unwritten language that has been spoken by Ainu people who ar...
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10/01/2019
Multilingual End-to-End Speech Translation
In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective framework for multiling...
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09/22/2019
Improving OOV Detection and Resolution with External Language Models in Acoustic-to-Word ASR
Acoustic-to-word (A2W) end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) sys...
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07/12/2019
Effective Incorporation of Speaker Information in Utterance Encoding in Dialog
In dialog studies, we often encode a dialog using a hierarchical encoder...
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05/31/2019
Content Word-based Sentence Decoding and Evaluating for Open-domain Neural Response Generation
Various encoder-decoder models have been applied to response generation ...
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03/22/2019
Unsupervised Speech Enhancement Based on Multichannel NMF-Informed Beamforming for Noise-Robust Automatic Speech Recognition
This paper describes multichannel speech enhancement for improving autom...
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11/06/2018
Transfer learning of language-independent end-to-end ASR with language model fusion
This work explores better adaptation methods to low-resource languages u...
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10/31/2017
Statistical Speech Enhancement Based on Probabilistic Integration of Variational Autoencoder and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
This paper presents a statistical method of single-channel speech enhanc...
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09/29/2017