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May 7, 2022 – May 13, 2022

Microsoft at ICASSP 2022

Singapore Time (UTC +8)

Location: Hybrid | Singapore

All times are in CST (UTC +8)

21:00 – 21:45 Competition Gather Area A

ICASSP 2022 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge

Ross Cutler, Ando Saabas, Tanel Parnamaa, Marju Purin, Hannes Gamper, Sebastian Braun, Karsten Sørensen, Robert Aichner
23:00 – 23:45 Competition Gather Area A

ICASSP 2022 Deep Noise Suppression Challenge

Harishchandra Dubey, Vishak Gopal, Ross Cutler, Ashkan Aazami, Sergiy Matusevych, Sebastian Braun, Sefik Emre Eskimez, Manthan Thakker, Takuya Yoshioka, Hannes Gamper, Robert Aichner

20:00 – 20:45 Talk session Gather Area B

Speech Separation
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- Continuous Speech Separation with Recurrent Selective Attention Network
  
  Yixuan Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Jian Wu, Takuya Yoshioka, Peidong Wang, Zhong Meng, Jinyu Li
- VarArray: Array-Geometry-Agnostic Continuous Speech Separation
  
  Takuya Yoshioka, Xiaofei Wang, Dongmei Wang, Min Tang, Zirun Zhu, Zhuo Chen, Naoyuki Kanda
- All-Neural Beamformer for Continuous Speech Separation
  
  Zhuohuang Zhang, Takuya Yoshioka, Naoyuki Kanda, Zhuo Chen, Xiaofei Wang, Dongmei Wang, Sefik Emre Eskimez
20:00 – 20:45 Talk session Gather Area C

Speech Recognition: Robust Speech Recognition
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- Improving Noise Robustness of Contrastive Speech Representation Learning with Speech Reconstruction
  
  Heming Wang, Yao Qian, Xiaofei Wang, Yiming Wang, Chengyi Wang, Shujie Liu, Takuya Yoshioka, Jinyu Li, DeLiang Wang
20:00 – 20:45 Talk session Gather Area D

Speech Synthesis: General Topics
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- A study on the efficacy of model pre-training in developing neural text-to-speech system
  
  Guangyan Zhang, Yichong Leng, Daxin Tan, Ying Qin, Kaitao Song, Xu Tan, Sheng Zhao, Tan Lee
21:00 – 21:45 Talk session Gather Area B

Speaker Recognition I: Self Supervision
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- Large-scale Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning for Automatic Speaker Verification
  
  Zhengyang Chen, Sanyuan Chen, Yu Wu, Yao Qian, Chengyi Wang, Shujie Liu, Yanmin Qian, Michael Zeng
- UniSpeech-SAT: Universal Speech Representation Learning with Speaker Aware Pre-Training
  
  Sanyuan Chen, Yu Wu, Chengyi Wang, Zhengyang Chen, Zhuo Chen, Shujie Liu, Jian Wu, Yao Qian, Furu Wei, Jinyu Li, Xiangzhan Yu
21:00 – 21:45 Talk session Gather Area C

Speech and Spoken Language Corpora

Session Chair: Yiming Wang
23:00 – 23:45 Talk session Gather Area C

Multi-lingual ASR
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- A Configurable Multilingual Model is All You Need to Recognize All Languages
  
  Long Zhou, Jinyu Li, Eric Sun, Shujie Liu

20:00 – 20:45 Talk session Gather Area B

Speech Enhancement: Multi-channel

Session Chair: Zhuo Chen
20:00 – 20:45 Talk session Gather Area D

Voice Conversion: Representation
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- Training Robust Zero-Shot Voice Conversion Models with Self-supervised Features
  
  Trung Dang, Dung Tran, Peter Chin, Kazuhito Koishida
20:00 – 20:45 Talk session Gather Area K

Signal Enhancement and Restoration I: Multichannel
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- One Model to Enhance Them All: Array Geometry Agnostic Multi-Channel Personalized Speech Enhancement
  
  Hassan Taherian, Sefik Emre Eskimez, Takuya Yoshioka, Huaming Wang, Zhuo Chen, Xuedong Huang
21:00 – 21:45 Talk session Gather Area L

Hearing Instruments and On-device Processing
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- Personalized Speech Enhancement: New Models and Comprehensive Evaluation
  
  Sefik Emre Eskimez, Takuya Yoshioka, Huaming Wang, Xiaofei Wang, Zhuo Chen, Xuedong Huang
22:00 – 22:45 Talk session Gather Area B

Speaker Recognition IV: Attention Mechanism
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- Multi-View Self-Attention Based Transformer for Speaker Recognition
  
  Rui Wang, Junyi Ao, Long Zhou, Shujie Liu, Zhihua Wei, Tom Ko, Qing Li, Yu Zhang
22:00 – 22:45 Talk session Gather Area C

Speech Recognition: General Topics II
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- Exploring Machine Speech Chain for Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Speaker Adaptation
  
  Fengpeng Yue, Yan Deng, Lei He, Tom Ko
22:00 – 22:45 Talk session Gather Area E

Pronunciation Assessment
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- A Universal Ordinal Regression for Assessing Phoneme-Level Pronunciation
  
  Shaoguang Mao, Frank Soong, Yan Xia, Jonathan Tien
- An Approach to Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis with Acoustic, Phonetic and Linguistic (APL) Embeddings
  
  Wenxuan Ye, Shaoguang Mao, Frank Soong, Wenshan Wu, Yan Xia, Jonathan Tien, Zhiyong Wu
22:00 – 22:45 Talk session Gather Area K

Deep Learning-Based Single-Channel Speech Enhancement
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- Unsupervised Speech Enhancement with speech recognition embedding and disentanglement losses
  
  Viet Anh Trinh, Sebastian Braun

20:00 – 20:45 Talk session Gather Area B

Speech Enhancement: Training Schemes and Losses

Session Chair: Kazuhito Koishida
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- A Training Framework for Stereo-Aware Speech Enhancement using Deep Neural Networks
  
  Bahareh Tolooshams, Kazuhito Koishida
21:00 – 21:45 Talk session Gather Area C

Self Supervised Learning for Speech Recognition
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- Self-Supervised Learning for speech recognition with Intermediate layer supervision
  
  Chengyi Wang, Yu Wu, Sanyuan Chen, Shujie Liu, Jinyu Li, Yao Qian, Zhenglu Yang
- Wav2vec-Switch: Contrastive Learning from Original-noisy Speech Pairs for Robust Speech Recognition
  
  Yiming Wang, Jinyu Li, Heming Wang, Yao Qian, Chengyi Wang, Yu Wu
22:00 – 22:45 Talk session Gather Area D

Speech Synthesis: Singing Voice and Others
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- Transformer-S2A: Robust and Efficient Speech-to-Animation
  
  Liyang Chen, Zhiyong Wu, Jun Ling, Runnan Li, Xu Tan, Sheng Zhao
23:00 – 23:45 Talk session Gather Area C

Multi Speaker and Multi-Channel Speech Recognition and Processing
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- Endpoint Detection for Streaming End-to-End Multi-talker ASR
  
  Liang Lu, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong
- Continuous Streaming Multi-Talker ASR with Dual-path Transducers
  
  Desh Raj, Liang Lu, Zhuo Chen, Yashesh Gaur, Jinyu Li

20:00 – 20:45 Talk session Gather Area B

Speech Enhancement and Dereverberation
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- MetricGAN-U: Unsupervised speech enhancement/ dereverberation based only on noisy/ reverberated speech
  
  Szu-Wei Fu, Cheng Yu, Kuo-Hsuan Hung, Mirco Ravanelli, Yu Tsao
20:00 – 20:45 Talk session Gather Area C

Speech Recognition: Acoustic Modeling II
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- Have best of both worlds: two-pass hybrid and E2E cascading framework for speech recognition
  
  Guoli Ye, Vadim Mazalov, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong
20:00 – 20:45 Talk session Gather Area D

Speech Synthesis: Novel Acoustic Models
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- Improving FastSpeech TTS with Efficient Self-Attention and Compact Feed-Forward Network
  
  Yujia Xiao, Lei He, Frank Soong
20:00 – 20:45 Talk session Gather Area H

Reinforcement Learning
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- Efficient and Stable Information Directed Exploration for Continuous Reinforcement Learning
  
  Mingzhe Chen, Xi Xiao, Wanpeng Zhang, Xiaotian Gao
21:00 – 21:45 Talk session Gather Area D

Speech Synthesis: Prosody
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- ProsodySpeech: Towards Advanced Prosody Model for Neural Text-To-Speech
  
  Yuanhao Yi, Lei He, Shifeng Pan, Xi Wang, Yujia Xia
23:00 – 23:45 Talk session Gather Area C

Speech Recognition: Training Methods for e2e ASR
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- Optimizing Alignment of Speech and Language Latent Spaces for End-to-End Speech Recognition and Understanding
  
  Wei Wang, Shuo Ren, Yao Qian, Shujie Liu, Yu Shi, Yanmin Qian, Michael Zeng

20:00 – 20:45 Talk session Gather Area B

Speech Enhancement: DNN Architectures

Session Chair: Takuya Yoshioka
22:00 – 22:45 Talk session Gather Area B

Speaker Diarization I
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- Transcribe-to-Diarize: Neural Speaker Diarization for Unlimited Number of Speakers using End-to-End Speaker-Attributed ASR
  
  Naoyuki Kanda, Xiong Xiao, Yashesh Gaur, Xiaofei Wang, Zhong Meng, Zhuo Chen, Takuya Yoshioka
22:00 – 22:45 Talk session Gather Area C

Speech Recognition: Neural Transducer Models
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- Factorized Neural Transducer for Efficient Language Model Adaptation
  
  Xie Chen, Zhong Meng, Sarangarajan Parthasarathy, Jinyu Li
22:00 – 22:45 Talk session Gather Area E

Representations and Relationships in Language
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- MetricBERT: Text Representation Learning via Self-Supervised Triplet Training
  
  Itzik Malkiel, Dvir Ginzburg, Oren Barkan, Avi Caciularu, Yoni Weill, Noam Koenigstein
22:00 – 22:45 Talk session Gather Area K

Audio and Speech Coding
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- End-to-End Neural Speech Coding for Real-Time Communications
  
  Xue Jiang, Xiulian Peng, Chengyu Zheng, Huaying Xue, Yuan Zhang, Yan Lu
23:00 – 23:45 Talk session Gather Area K

Audio Quality and Speech Intelligibility Measures
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- DNSMOS: A Non-Intrusive Perceptual Objective Speech Quality Metric to Evaluate Noise Suppressors
  
  Chandan K. A. Reddy, Vishak Gopal, Ross Cutler
- AECMOS: A speech quality assessment metric for echo impairment
  
  Marju Purin, Sten Sootla, Mateja Sponza, Ando Saabas, Ross Cutler

20:00 – 20:45 Talk session Gather Area K

Multichannel Processing
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- PickNet: Real-Time Channel Selection for Ad Hoc Microphone Arrays
  
  Takuya Yoshioka, Xiaofei Wang, Dongmei Wang
21:00 – 21:45 Talk session Gather Area D

Speech Synthesis: Vocoder and Evaluation
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- InferGrad: Improving Diffusion Models for Vocoder by Considering Inference in Training
  
  Zehua Chen, Xu Tan, Ke Wang, Shifeng Pan, Danilo Mandic, Lei He, Sheng Zhao
21:00 – 21:45 Talk session Gather Area K

Extended Evaluation and Captioning
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- Effect of noise suppression losses on speech distortion and ASR performance
  
  Sebastian Braun, Hannes Gamper
22:00 – 22:45 Talk session Gather Area H

Multimodal Analysis in Audio Applications
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- Learning Music Sequence Representation from Text Supervision
  
  Tianyu Chen, Shuai Zhang, Haoyi Zhou, Jianxin Li, Yuan Xie, Shaohan Huang
22:00 – 22:45 Talk session Gather Area K

Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events VII: Evaluation
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- Maximizing Audio Event Detection Model Performance on Small Datasets Through Knowledge Transfer, Data Augmentation, And Pretraining: An Ablation Study
  
  Daniel Tompkins, Kshitiz Kumar, Jian Wu
23:00 – 23:45 Talk session Gather Area C

Augmentation for Speech Recognition

Session Chair: Yao Qian

11:10 – 12:10 Keynote

Building Bridges for the Hybrid Era

Keynote Speaker: Jaime Teevan

Microsoft at ICASSP 2022

Saturday, May 7, 2022

ICASSP 2022 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge

ICASSP 2022 Deep Noise Suppression Challenge

Sunday, May 8, 2022

Speech Separation

Speech Recognition: Robust Speech Recognition

Speech Synthesis: General Topics

Speaker Recognition I: Self Supervision

Speech and Spoken Language Corpora

Multi-lingual ASR

Monday, May 9, 2022

Speech Enhancement: Multi-channel

Voice Conversion: Representation

Signal Enhancement and Restoration I: Multichannel

Hearing Instruments and On-device Processing

Speaker Recognition IV: Attention Mechanism

Speech Recognition: General Topics II

Pronunciation Assessment

Deep Learning-Based Single-Channel Speech Enhancement

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Speech Enhancement: Training Schemes and Losses

Self Supervised Learning for Speech Recognition

Speech Synthesis: Singing Voice and Others

Multi Speaker and Multi-Channel Speech Recognition and Processing

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Speech Enhancement and Dereverberation

Speech Recognition: Acoustic Modeling II

Speech Synthesis: Novel Acoustic Models

Reinforcement Learning

Speech Synthesis: Prosody

Speech Recognition: Training Methods for e2e ASR

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Speech Enhancement: DNN Architectures

Speaker Diarization I

Speech Recognition: Neural Transducer Models

Representations and Relationships in Language

Audio and Speech Coding

Audio Quality and Speech Intelligibility Measures

Friday, May 13, 2022

Multichannel Processing

Speech Synthesis: Vocoder and Evaluation

Extended Evaluation and Captioning

Multimodal Analysis in Audio Applications

Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events VII: Evaluation

Augmentation for Speech Recognition

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Building Bridges for the Hybrid Era