The second 'CHiME'speech separation and recognition challenge: An overview of challenge systems and outcomes

E Vincent, J Barker, S Watanabe… - … IEEE Workshop on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distant-microphone automatic speech recognition (ASR) remains a challenging goal in
everyday environments involving multiple background sources and reverberation. This …

The PASCAL CHiME speech separation and recognition challenge

J Barker, E Vincent, N Ma, H Christensen… - Computer Speech & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Distant microphone speech recognition systems that operate with human-like robustness
remain a distant goal. The key difficulty is that operating in everyday listening conditions …

The second 'CHiME'speech separation and recognition challenge: Datasets, tasks and baselines

E Vincent, J Barker, S Watanabe… - … , Speech and Signal …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distant-microphone automatic speech recognition (ASR) remains a challenging goal in
everyday environments involving multiple background sources and reverberation. This …

A multichannel MMSE-based framework for speech source separation and noise reduction

M Souden, S Araki, K Kinoshita… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a new framework for joint multichannel speech source separation and acoustic
noise reduction. In this framework, we start by formulating the minimum-mean-square error …

Cracking the cocktail party problem by multi-beam deep attractor network

Z Chen, J Li, X Xiao, T Yoshioka… - 2017 IEEE Automatic …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While recent progresses in neural network approaches to singlechannel speech separation,
or more generally the cocktail party problem, achieved significant improvement, their …

[PDF][PDF] Discriminative methods for noise robust speech recognition: A CHiME challenge benchmark

Y Tachioka, S Watanabe, J Le Roux… - The 2nd International …, 2013 - merl.com
The recently introduced second CHiME challenge is a difficult two-microphone speech
recognition task with non-stationary interference. Current approaches in the source …

Probabilistic spatial dictionary based online adaptive beamforming for meeting recognition in noisy and reverberant environments

N Ito, S Araki, M Delcroix… - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Here we propose online adaptive beamforming for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in
meetings in noisy, reverberant environments. The proposed method is based on recently …

The CHiME challenges: Robust speech recognition in everyday environments

JP Barker, R Marxer, E Vincent, S Watanabe - New era for robust speech …, 2017 - Springer
The CHiME challenge series has been aiming to advance the development of robust
automatic speech recognition for use in everyday environments by encouraging research at …

Modelling non-stationary noise with spectral factorisation in automatic speech recognition

A Hurmalainen, JF Gemmeke, T Virtanen - Computer Speech & Language, 2013 - Elsevier
Speech recognition systems intended for everyday use must be able to cope with a large
variety of noise types and levels, including highly non-stationary multi-source mixtures. This …

Uncertainty-based learning of acoustic models from noisy data

A Ozerov, M Lagrange, E Vincent - Computer Speech & Language, 2013 - Elsevier
We consider the problem of acoustic modeling of noisy speech data, where the uncertainty
over the data is given by a Gaussian distribution. While this uncertainty has been exploited …