Assistant Prof @ SAI, SJTU. I am interested in speech signal processing, robust speech recognition, and self-supervised speech pretraining.
Joined September 2016
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Who wants more speech training data?
YODAS v3 is now available @huggingface
It’s 1.1M hours - the biggest audio dataset ever. And the first at this scale with stereo audio at 48kHz, with timestamped transcripts and translations. 100+ langs
hf.co/blog/espnet/yodasv3
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📣 The ICASSP 2027 Speech and Language Processing reviewer nomination form is now open!
Qualified researchers are invited to self-nominate and help shape the ICASSP 2027 technical program.
Review the eligibility requirements and apply here: lnkd.in/etH2wKSv
#ICASSP2027
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We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in speech and audio processing, with a possible start in the Fall 2026 semester. If you are interested in working with us, please apply through the following form: forms.gle/gfENMMrRf1nmnTJeA
📢 ISCSLP 2026 | Penang, Malaysia | Nov 14-17, 2026
The 15th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) is now open for submissions!
🚀Special Sessions & Challenges Proposals: Jun 8
🚀Paper Submission: Jun 12
🚀Tutorial Proposals: Jun 18
#ISCSLP2026
The 3rd URGENT Challenge just started! 🚀
🎯This time we further expand data diversity and pursue high data quality in the universal SE track.
🎯 I'm also very excited about the new track on SE-oriented SQA. We believe (found) this benefits several areas (SE, TTS, and so on).
🚀 Join the ICASSP 2026 URGENT Challenge! Advance Universal, Robust & Generalizable Speech Enhancement.
🗣 Track 1: Universal Speech Enhancement
🎧 Track 2: Speech Quality Assessment
🔗 urgent-challenge.github.io/u…
#ICASSP2026 #SpeechEnhancement #AI #AudioProcessing
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Our multi-speaker ASR paper is now available on CSL😊 We integrate SOTA speech separation (TF-GridNet), self-supervised learning (WavLM), and ASR (Conformer-based joint CTC/AED) models in an end-to-end manner. I really appreciate excellent collaborators!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1l5uB…
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📢 Introducing VERSA: our new open-source toolkit for speech & audio evaluation!
- 80+ metrics in one unified interface
- Flexible input support
- Distributed evaluation with Slurm
- ESPnet compatible
Check out the details
wavlab.org/activities/2025/v…
github.com/wavlab-speech/ver…
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🌟 URGENT Challenge @ #Interspeech2025 🌟
Join the Universal, Robust, & Generalizable Speech EnhancemeNT (URGENT) challenge! Explore noisy corpora, tackle diverse speech degradations, and test scalability across 2 tracks (~2.5k/60k hrs).
🚀 Learn more: urgent-challenge.github.io/u…
ALT interspeech2025.org challenge URGENT Organizers: Kohei Saijo, Wangyou Zhang, Samuele Cornell, Robin Scheibler, Chenda Li, Zhaoheng Ni, Anurag Kumar, Marvin Sach, Yihui Fu, Wei Wang, Tim Fingscheidt, Shinji Watanabe
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Presentation day!
I am going to present our contribution of Team Hamburgers 🍔 to the URGENT Challenge.
NeurIPS, Saturday Dec 14, 3:45 pm, West Meeting Room 215, 216.
@NeurIPSConf
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If you are still around in Vancouver for Neurips, tomorrow we will have the URGENT challenge workshop from 1.30 pm.
Come by if you are interested in generalizable speech enhancement (also wind will be up to 70km/h tomorrow and is cozy inside 😉)
Lineup: neurips.cc/virtual/2024/comp…
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Congratulations, @chenwanch1, for the EMNLP Best Paper Award!!!
I'm super happy!
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We are thrilled to announce the Interspeech 2025 URGENT Challenge, starting on 11/15!
Join us in building universal speech enhancement models to tackle in-the-wild speech data using large-scale, multilingual data. Details: urgent-challenge.github.io/u…
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We investigated the scalability of speech enhancement models on different datasets and models (led by @Emrys365 ).
I’ll present this work at #INTERSPEECH2024 Speech Enhancement poster session today at 1:30 pm!
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I'm excited to announce @WavLab's XEUS - an SSL speech encoder that covers over 4000+ languages!
XEUS is trained on over 1 million hours of speech. It outperforms both MMS 1B and w2v-BERT v2 2.0 on many tasks.
We're releasing the code, checkpoints, and our 4000+ lang. data! 🧵
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Yet another Mamba paper in #INTERSPEECH2024! We explore Mamba's capability in ASR, TTS, SLU, and SUMM on top of ESPnet. Mamba outperforms S4 in the decoder and demonstrates better length generalization and computational efficiency compared to Transformer.
arxiv.org/abs/2406.16808
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Excited to co-organize and launch URGENT Challenge as NeurIPS 2024 Competition. The goal of this challenge is to create a “universal speech enhancement” task which goes beyond the usual distortions - additive noise and reverberation. urgent-challenge.github.io/u…
We are thrilled to announce the URGENT 2024 Challenge - a new speech enhancement (SE) competition at NeurIPS 2024: urgent-challenge.github.io/u…
This challenge aims to unify diverse distortions and sampling frequencies using a single universal SE model. #URGENT2024 (1/4)
The validation leaderboard is also live now at urgent-challenge.github.io/u…. Feel free to participate in our challenge at any time (ddl is Sep 20) and we look forward to your great work! (3/4)
Great thanks to the core organizer team for making this happen! @fakufakurevenge, @kohei_1979, @SamueleCornell, @chenda54, Zhaoheng Ni, @AcouIntel, Marvin Sach, Wei Wang, @shinjiw_at_cmu, Tim Fingscheidt, Yanmin Qian #NeurIPS2024, #speech, #speech_enhancement (4/4)
