arXiv:2605. 07694v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Single-channel speaker distance estimation has recently achieved centimeter-level accuracy in simulated environments, yet it remains unclear which components of the room impulse response (RIR) the model exploits and how performance depends on the recording conditions.
arXiv:2609.35839v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Handclaps provide an equipment-free excitation for room acoustics, but their unknown and variable source waveform makes room impulse response (RIR) e...
arXiv:2609.38897v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Far-field automatic speech recognition(ASR) degrades under reverberation, noise, and talker motion, yet the benchmarks that drive model selection emp...
The study examines how the realism of synthetic room impulse response (RIR) datasets influences the training of DeepFilterNet3 for single‑channel speech enhancement. By comparing a DNS4 image‑source‑method RIR set with a higher‑fidelity hybrid wave‑based and geometrical acoustics RIR set, the authors find that the more realistic dataset consistently improves objective speech enhancement metrics and significantly reduces ASR word error rates on unseen measured RIRs. The results suggest that overall realism in synthetic acoustic training data enhances DeepFilterNet3’s generalization to new environments.
arXiv:2607. 23293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image-source-method (ISM)-based room impulse response (RIR) simulation is a useful and physically interpretable tool for acoustic scene modeling, but full-order ISM becomes computationally expensive as the reflection order and room complexity increase.
Full-duplex speech models require training data that preserves turn-taking, overlap, interruption, and backchannel behavior, yet these signals are entangled across speakers in noisy real-world recordi...
The paper introduces asymmetric classifier‑free guidance (CFG) for target‑speaker ASR using Whisper, where a speaker‑conditioned branch predicts the target transcript and a speaker‑unconditioned branch predicts serialized multi‑speaker transcripts. CFG modulates the influence of speaker conditioning during decoding via a single guidance scale, which is first set globally on development data and then refined per utterance by a lightweight encoder‑based predictor while keeping the recognition model fixed. The resulting system yields up to 21.8% relative WER reduction over a condition‑only baseline and 5.6% over standard conditional decoding under domain shifts.
arXiv:2607. 01527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Room embeddings derived from reverberant speech are often unreliable: speech content and recording degradation can alter the representation even when speaker, room, and source-receiver geometry remain unchanged, degrading downstream task performance.
The paper introduces a multi‑party backchannel prediction benchmark built from the AMI meeting corpus, featuring 682 masked‑listener views, 190 speakers, and 18,697 backchannel events. A state‑of‑the‑art dyadic model performs at chance when applied zero‑shot to meetings, but its frozen acoustic features are still informative, and retraining improves performance to an AUROC of 0.751. The study reveals that listener conditioning helps only for listeners seen during training, that speaker identity is entangled with useful cues, and that backchannel rates vary significantly across individuals, prompting the authors to report both AUROC and event‑F1 metrics. whyItMatters":"The benchmark and evaluation tools provide a standardized, person‑disjoint testbed for advancing multi‑party backchannel prediction research."
arXiv:2606. 29031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In regulated domains such as banking and healthcare, where privacy constraints make real speech costly to collect and retain, synthetic speech from modern text-to-speech (TTS) is an appealing alternative for training automatic speech recognition (ASR) without exposing sensitive customer recordings.
arXiv:2606. 16568v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable turn-taking is essential for spoken dialogue systems.
arXiv:2509. 15210v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Realistic sound simulation plays a critical role in many applications.
arXiv:2608. 08638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) now supports interactive assistants, personalized media, and accessibility tools.