Google at Interspeech 2023

ISCA Board, Technical Committee Chair: Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Area Chairs include:
    Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals: Richard Rose
    Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation: Rob Clark
    Special Areas: Tara Sainath

VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2023 (VoxSRC-23)
Organizers include: Arsha Nagrani

ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW12)
Speakers include: Rob Clark

Bridging Speech Science and Technology — Now and Into the Future
Speaker: Shrikanth Narayanan

Speech Compression in the AI Era
Speaker: Jan Skoglund

Cascaded Encoders for Fine-Tuning ASR Models on Overlapped Speech
Richard Rose, Oscar Chang, Olivier Siohan

TokenSplit: Using Discrete Speech Representations for Direct, Refined, and Transcript-Conditioned Speech Separation and Recognition
Hakan Erdogan, Scott Wisdom, Xuankai Chang*, Zalán Borsos, Marco Tagliasacchi, Neil Zeghidour, John R. Hershey

DeePMOS: Deep Posterior Mean-Opinion-Score of Speech
Xinyu Liang, Fredrik Cumlin, Christian Schüldt, Saikat Chatterjee

O-1: Self-Training with Oracle and 1-Best Hypothesis
Murali Karthick Baskar, Andrew Rosenberg, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Kartik Audhkhasi

Re-investigating the Efficient Transfer Learning of Speech Foundation Model Using Feature Fusion Methods
Zhouyuan Huo, Khe Chai Sim, Dongseong Hwang, Tsendsuren Munkhdalai, Tara N. Sainath, Pedro Moreno

MOS vs. AB: Evaluating Text-to-Speech Systems Reliably Using Clustered Standard Errors
Joshua Camp, Tom Kenter, Lev Finkelstein, Rob Clark

LanSER: Language-Model Supported Speech Emotion Recognition
Taesik Gong, Josh Belanich, Krishna Somandepalli, Arsha Nagrani, Brian Eoff, Brendan Jou

Modular Domain Adaptation for Conformer-Based Streaming ASR
Qiujia Li, Bo Li, Dongseong Hwang, Tara N. Sainath, Pedro M. Mengibar

On Training a Neural Residual Acoustic Echo Suppressor for Improved ASR
Sankaran Panchapagesan, Turaj Zakizadeh Shabestary, Arun Narayanan

MD3: The Multi-dialect Dataset of Dialogues
Jacob Eisenstein, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Clara Rivera, Dorottya Demszky, Devyani Sharma

Dual-Mode NAM: Effective Top-K Context Injection for End-to-End ASR
Zelin Wu, Tsendsuren Munkhdalai, Pat Rondon, Golan Pundak, Khe Chai Sim, Christopher Li

Using Text Injection to Improve Recognition of Personal Identifiers in Speech
Yochai Blau, Rohan Agrawal, Lior Madmony, Gary Wang, Andrew Rosenberg, Zhehuai Chen, Zorik Gekhman, Genady Beryozkin, Parisa Haghani, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

How to Estimate Model Transferability of Pre-trained Speech Models?
Zih-Ching Chen, Chao-Han Huck Yang*, Bo Li, Yu Zhang, Nanxin Chen, Shuo-yiin Chang, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Hung-yi Lee, Tara N. Sainath

Improving Joint Speech-Text Representations Without Alignment
Cal Peyser, Zhong Meng, Ke Hu, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Andrew Rosenberg, Tara N. Sainath, Michael Picheny, Kyunghyun Cho

Text Injection for Capitalization and Turn-Taking Prediction in Speech Models
Shaan Bijwadia, Shuo-yiin Chang, Weiran Wang, Zhong Meng, Hao Zhang, Tara N. Sainath

Streaming Parrotron for On-Device Speech-to-Speech Conversion
Oleg Rybakov, Fadi Biadsy, Xia Zhang, Liyang Jiang, Phoenix Meadowlark, Shivani Agrawal

Semantic Segmentation with Bidirectional Language Models Improves Long-Form ASR
W. Ronny Huang, Hao Zhang, Shankar Kumar, Shuo-yiin Chang, Tara N. Sainath

Universal Automatic Phonetic Transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet
Chihiro Taguchi, Yusuke Sakai, Parisa Haghani, David Chiang

Mixture-of-Expert Conformer for Streaming Multilingual ASR
Ke Hu, Bo Li, Tara N. Sainath, Yu Zhang, Francoise Beaufays

Real Time Spectrogram Inversion on Mobile Phone
Oleg Rybakov, Marco Tagliasacchi, Yunpeng Li, Liyang Jiang, Xia Zhang, Fadi Biadsy

2-Bit Conformer Quantization for Automatic Speech Recognition
Oleg Rybakov, Phoenix Meadowlark, Shaojin Ding, David Qiu, Jian Li, David Rim, Yanzhang He

LibriTTS-R: A Restored Multi-speaker Text-to-Speech Corpus
Yuma Koizumi, Heiga Zen, Shigeki Karita, Yifan Ding, Kohei Yatabe, Nobuyuki Morioka, Michiel Bacchiani, Yu Zhang, Wei Han, Ankur Bapna

PronScribe: Highly Accurate Multimodal Phonemic Transcription from Speech and Text
Yang Yu, Matthew Perez*, Ankur Bapna, Fadi Haik, Siamak Tazari, Yu Zhang

Label Aware Speech Representation Learning for Language Identification
Shikhar Vashishth, Shikhar Bharadwaj, Sriram Ganapathy, Ankur Bapna, Min Ma, Wei Han, Vera Axelrod, Partha Talukdar