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BUT System Description for CHiME-9 MCoRec Challenge

Dominik Klement, Alexander Polok, Nguyen Hai Phong, Prachi Singh, Lukas Burget ยท 2026

Multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) in conversational recordings remains an open problem, particularly in scenarios with large portion of overlapping speech where identifying and transcribโ€ฆ

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The False Resonance: A Critical Examination of Emotion Embedding Similarity for Speech Generation Evaluation

Yun-Shao Tsai, Yi-Cheng Lin, Huang-Cheng Chou, Tzu-Wen Hsu, Yun-Man Hsu, Chun Wei Chen, Shrikanth Narayanan, Hung-yi Lee ยท 2026

Objective metrics for emotional expressiveness are vital for speech generation, particularly in expressive synthesis and voice conversion requiring emotional prosody transfer. To quantify this, the fiโ€ฆ

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Dual-LoRA: Parameter-Efficient Adversarial Disentanglement for Cross-Lingual Speaker Verification

Qituan Shangguan, Junhao Du, Kunyang Peng, Feng Xue, Hui Zhang, Xinsheng Wang, Kai Yu, Shuai Wang ยท 2026

Cross-lingual speaker verification suffers from severe language-speaker entanglement. This causes systematic degradation in the hardest scenario: correctly accepting utterances from the same speaker aโ€ฆ

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DiffAnon: Diffusion-based Prosody Control for Voice Anonymization

Ismail Rasim Ulgen, Zexin Cai, Nicholas Andrews, Philipp Koehn, Berrak Sisman ยท 2026

To preserve or not to preserve prosody is a central question in voice anonymization. Prosody conveys meaning and affect, yet is tightly coupled with speaker identity. Existing methods either discard pโ€ฆ

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One Voice, Many Tongues: Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning for Scientific Speech

Amanuel Gizachew Abebe, Yasmin Moslem ยท 2026

Preserving a speaker's voice identity while generating speech in a different language remains a fundamental challenge in spoken language technology, particularly in specialized domains such as scientiโ€ฆ

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UNet-Based Fusion and Exponential Moving Average Adaptation for Noise-Robust Speaker Recognition

Chong-Xin Gan, Peter Bell, Man-Wai Mak, Zhe Li, Zezhong Jin, Zilong Huang, Kong Aik Lee ยท 2026

The joint training of speech enhancement and speaker embedding networks for speaker recognition is widely adopted under noisy acoustic environments. While effective, this paradigm often fails to leverโ€ฆ

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Robust Accent Identification via Voice Conversion and Non-Timbral Embeddings

Rayane Bakari, Olivier Le Blouch, Nicolas Gengembre, Nicholas Evans ยท 2026

Automatic accent identification (AID) remains a challenging task due to the complex variability of accents, the entanglement of accent cues with speaker traits, and the scarcity of reliable accentlabeโ€ฆ

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Explainable AI in Speaker Recognition -- Making Latent Representations Understandable

Yanze Xu, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley ยท 2026

Neural networks can be trained to learn task-relevant representations from data. Understanding how these networks make decisions falls within the Explainable AI (XAI) domain. This paper proposes to stโ€ฆ

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DM-ASR: Diarization-aware Multi-speaker ASR with Large Language Models

Li Li, Ming Cheng, Weixin Zhu, Yannan Wang, Juan Liu, Ming Li ยท 2026

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) aims to transcribe conversational speech involving multiple speakers, requiring the model to capture not only what was said, but also who said it and sโ€ฆ

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DiariZen Explained: A Tutorial for the Open Source State-of-the-Art Speaker Diarization Pipeline

Nikhil Raghav ยท 2026

Speaker diarization (SD) is the task of answering "who spoke when" in a multi-speaker audio stream. Classically, an SD system clusters segments of speech belonging to an individual speaker's identity.โ€ฆ

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Indic-CodecFake meets SATYAM: Towards Detecting Neural Audio Codec Synthesized Speech Deepfakes in Indic Languages

Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Orchid Chetia Phukan, Arun Balaji Buduru ยท 2026

The rapid advancement of Audio Large Language Models (ALMs), driven by Neural Audio Codecs (NACs), has led to the emergence of highly realistic speech deepfakes, commonly referred to as CodecFakes (CFโ€ฆ

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Anonymization, Not Elimination: Utility-Preserved Speech Anonymization

Yunchong Xiao, Yuxiang Zhao, Ziyang Ma, Shuai Wang, Kai Yu, Jiachun Liao, Xie Chen ยท 2026

The growing reliance on large-scale speech data has made privacy protection a critical concern. However, existing anonymization approaches often degrade data utility, for example by disrupting acoustiโ€ฆ

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Who is Speaking or Who is Depressed? A Controlled Study of Speaker Leakage in Speech-Based Depression Detection

Hsiang-Chen Yeh, Luqi Sun, Aurosweta Mahapatra, Shreeram Suresh Chandra, Emily Mower Provost, Berrak Sisman ยท 2026

This study investigates whether speech-based depression detection models learn depression-related acoustic biomarkers or instead rely on speaker identity cues. Using the DAIC-WOZ dataset, we propose aโ€ฆ

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SpeakerRPL v2: Robust Open-set Speaker Identification through Enhanced Few-shot Foundation Tuning and Model Fusion

Zhiyong Chen, Shuhang Wu, Yingjie Duan, Xinkang Xu, Xinhui Hu ยท 2026

This paper proposes an improved approach for open-set speaker identification based on pretrained speaker foundation models. Building upon the previous Speaker Reciprocal Points Learning framework (V1)โ€ฆ

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A transformable slender microrobot inspired by nematode parasites for interventional endovascular surgery

Xin Yang, Dongliang Fan, Yunteng Ma, Yuxuan Liao, Diancheng Li, U Kei Cheang, Bo Peng, Hongqiang Wang ยท 2026

Cardiovascular diseases account for around 17.9 million deaths per year globally, the treatment of which is challenging considering the confined space and complex topology of the vascular network and โ€ฆ

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ProSDD: Learning Prosodic Representations for Speech Deepfake Detection against Expressive and Emotional Attacks

Aurosweta Mahapatra, Ismail Rasim Ulgen, Kong Aik Lee, Nicholas Andrews, Berrak Sisman ยท 2026

Speech deepfake detection (SDD) systems perform well on standard benchmarks datasets but often fail to generalize to expressive and emotional spoofing attacks. Many methods rely on spoof-heavy traininโ€ฆ

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X-VC: Zero-shot Streaming Voice Conversion in Codec Space

Qixi Zheng, Yuxiang Zhao, Tianrui Wang, Wenxi Chen, Kele Xu, Yikang Li, Qinyuan Chen, Xipeng Qiu, Kai Yu, Xie Chen ยท 2026

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to convert a source utterance into the voice of an unseen target speaker while preserving its linguistic content. Although recent systems have improved conversion โ€ฆ

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Speaker Attributed Automatic Speech Recognition Using Speech Aware LLMS

Hagai Aronowitz, Zvi Kons, Avihu Dekel, George Saon, Ron Hoory ยท 2026

Speaker-Attributed Automatic Speech Recognition (SAA) enhances traditional ASR systems by incorporating relative speaker identity tags directly into the transcript (e.g., [Speaker 1]:, [Speaker 2]:). โ€ฆ

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Data Selection Effects on Self-Supervised Learning of Audio Representations for French Audiovisual Broadcasts

Valentin Pelloin, Lina Bekkali, Reda Dehak, David Doukhan ยท 2026

Audio and speech self-supervised encoder models are now widely used for a lot of different tasks. Many of these models are often trained on clean segmented speech content such as LibriSpeech. In this โ€ฆ

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Tracking Listener Attention: Gaze-Guided Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Framework

Hsiang-Cheng Yang, You-Jin Li, Rong Chao, Yu Tsao, Borching Su, Shao-Yi Chien ยท 2026

This paper presents a Gaze-Guided Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement (GG-AVSE) framework to address the cocktail party problem. A major challenge in conventional AVSE is identifying the listener's intendโ€ฆ

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