Speech & natural language publications

In this paper, we present the SRI system submission to the NIST OpenSAD 2015 speech activity detection (SAD) evaluation. We present results on three different development databases that we created…

In the present study, we focus exclusively on progress in developing speech recognition for the language of interest, Yoloxóchitl Mixtec (YM), an Oto-Manguean language spoken by fewer than 5000 speakers…

This article provides details of the SITW speaker recognition challenge and analysis of evaluation results. We provide an analysis of some of the top performing systems submitted during the evaluation and…

We present the work done by our group for the 2015 language recognition evaluation (LRE) organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

This study compares the effect of noise and reverberation on depression prediction using standard mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, and features designed for noise robustness, damped oscillator cepstral coefficients.

Using bottleneck features extracted from a deep neural network (DNN) trained to predict senone posteriors has resulted in new, state-of-the-art technology for language and speaker identification.

In this paper, we focus on a dataset of highly degraded signals, developed under the DARPA Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech (RATS) program.

This work presents a modified CDNN architecture that we call the time-frequency convolutional network (TFCNN), in which two parallel layers of convolution are performed on the input feature space: convolution…

This paper introduces the MERL/SRI system designed for the 3rd CHiME speech separation and recognition challenge (CHiME-3). 

In this work, we explore the role of robust acoustic features motivated by human speech perception studies, for building ASR systems robust to reverberation effects.

This paper compares different approaches for using deep neural networks (DNNs) trained to predict senone posteriors for the task of spoken language recognition (SLR).